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- QED
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- AMIGA TEXT EDITOR
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- Copyright 1989 by Darren M. Greenwald
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- All rights reserved
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- Whats new as of 7/23/89
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- Revision 0.19
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- 1.) An IMPORTANT BUG has been fixed in 0.18 which occurs when you edit a
- line, and then do a page up/down, cursor top/bottom window, or top/bottom
- of page. The changes to the line were not updated properly - otherwise
- this version is like 0.18 in regards to new features.
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- Whats new as of 7/20/89
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- Revision 0.18
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- 1.) QED now supports a transparent line editing buffer which allows you to
- enter, and edit text at near full speed regardless of file size. QED will
- use this temporary buffer when making changes to a line which is less then
- 1000 characters long. This is a transparent operation, and requires
- nothing of the user. The buffer is flushed when a new line is inserted,
- when the cursor is moved off the line, when a horizontal scroll is
- required, and before certain operations such as saving a file.
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- 2.) Cursor movement is now much faster when mark block mode is off.
- Chances are that most users will not be able to notice the difference
- because cursor movement was already quite fast, however users of large
- bit-plane screens should notice faster performance.
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- 3.) Each text editing window can now have a unique current directory.
- If you are using QGO to run QED, then you MUST use the latest version of
- QGO which passes its current directory to QED when opening new windows,
- and/or files. Its important to note that when you open a new window with
- the NEW command, that the current directory lock will be inherited by the
- new window just like the window options, colors, etc. It is left up to the
- user to keep track of the default directory of each window (the current
- directory is what will be displayed in the file requester if no path name
- is entered).
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- 4.) The printer handling code has now been reworked to send smaller chunks
- of text to the printer.device; this was primarly done to allow for a
- faster, and safer abort. If you had any troubles aborting a print out
- before, this new code should help.
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- The PRInt command now accepts a boolean TRUE/FALSE argument. If TRUE,
- the user is not prompted with a requester before printing. If FALSE, or
- ommitted, the verification requester is displayed.
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- 5.) There was a bug in the menu set-up code which could result in QED not
- recognizing some of the items in the pull-down menus. This has
- (hopefully) been fixed.
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- 6.) You now have the option of using the ARP file requester; requires ARP
- library version 34 or greater. This option can be set from the command
- mode.
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- 7.) The ALT keys are no longer automatically mapped to imitate the RIGHT
- AMIGA key press alternatives listed in the pull-down menus. The problem
- with making this an automatic feature was that it was then difficult to
- enter any of the high character set which would normally be generated by
- using the ALT key. In addition, automatic mapping of these keys consumed
- memory for a feature that not everyone wants/needs. There is now a single
- command available which will map the ALT keys to imitate the RIGHT AMIGA
- key.
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- The command is "XMAP"; this command requires no arguments, and may fail
- if there is not enough memory.
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- 8.) QED now allocates at least 16K of initial workspace when opening a
- file. Previously QED would allocate a buffer just big enough to hold the
- file rounded out to an even 8K multiple. This was primarily done to
- insure that a decent amount of work space is allocated when the file is
- opened as QED will attempt to reallocate a work space if you are inserting
- text, and the workspace is exhausted.
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- 9.) A variety of minor fixes, and some cleanup.
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- 10.) QED now supports some new keyboard mapping commands including the
- ability to quickly clear, or temporarily ignore groups of keyboard
- definitions. A single command also allows you to reset the default key
- mapping assigned by QED upon startup.
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