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- QED
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- AMIGA TEXT EDITOR
- REV 1.0
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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 5/5/89
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- beta 0.14
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- 1.) QED now allows you to open, display, edit, and save most binary
- characters other then binary 0, and binary 9 (TABS are still converted to
- spaces, though I am considering the option of supporting HARD tabs in the
- future). This should be sufficient for those who wish to include ANSI, or
- printer device control sequences in their text. See the user documentation
- for more details.
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- 2.) The command line language has now been enhanced to support additional
- control sequences in string arguments allowing you to enter binary
- character values in hexidecimal, or decimal values.
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- 3.) The ALT key is now mapped to imitate the RIGHT AMIGA key press options
- in the pull down menus. This was done to free the CTRL key which can be
- used to enter binary values 1-31 using the standard operating system
- keyboard decoding routines.
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- 4.) There is now a very important command added to the command line
- language which allows you to send status information to ARexx (e.g., the
- current line of text, file name, path name, option settings, line number
- position, column position, etc.).
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- 5.) Also a general clean-up of the ARexx interfacing code to send back the
- exact error codes used by QED. Previously these were sent as general
- levels of severity, and made debugging macros a bit more difficult to track
- down. Now the actual error codes are sent to ARexx which correspond
- directly to the various error messages that QED may display in a requester,
- or in the command line window.
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- 6.) The use of the SETENV variable added in the last revision worked so
- long as you did not specify a file name to be edited as a CLI argument.
- This has now been fixed to work properly with 1 file name argument.
- Multiple file name arguments will still cause QED to automatically attempt
- to size the windows into evenly spaced out editing windows.
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- 7.) The "double-click" feature to turn mark block mode on/off has now been
- modified to hopefully give a "better feel". It was pointed out by a couple
- of users that the previous method felt more like a triple click. Note that
- this is still not like WordPerfect (on purpose) which always goes into mark
- block mode when dragging the cursor (something which I personally feel I
- have to fight to convince it I dont want mark block mode turned on). Try it
- out!
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- Whats new as of 4/29/89
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- beta 0.13
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- 1.) You can now define any key when pressed alone to execute any QED
- command, any DOS command, or any ARexx macro. This is in addition to the
- ability to define what any key does when pressed in conjunction with the
- SHIFT, ALT, or CTRL keys.
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- 2.) The behavior of the INSERT PROJECT, and INSERT BLOCK commands is now
- slightly different. Before you could only insert a file as a group of
- lines above the line on which the cursor resided. Now both INSERT PROJECT,
- and INSERT BLOCK are affected by how the MARK LINE MODE option is set in
- the "Options" menu.
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- When MARK LINE MODE is ON, it is assumed you want to work
- with line oriented blocks of text, and subsequently, insert project, and
- insert block are inserted as a group of lines above the cursor position.
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- When MARK LINE MODE is OFF, it is assumed you want to work
- with document oriented blocks of text, and subsequently, insert project,
- and insert block are inserted AT the cursor position. Therefore you can
- now use this capability to define sentences, paragraphs, etc., as disk files
- to be inserted at the cursor position.
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- 3.) QED now opens a public ARexx message port. A unique address is created
- for each QED task (e.g., "QED1", "QED2", "QED3", etc...), and is displayed
- in the title bar, and command line window. Note that it is not possible to
- assign to private ports to each QED window opened with the NEW command due
- to the limitation on signal bits assigned to each task by the Amiga
- operating system. Specific details on how to select which windows are
- addressable via the public message ports is described in the documentation
- provided to registered users only.
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- 4.) You can now define the default window size that QED will use to open a
- window, as well as any NEW windows opened via the pull-down menus. This
- capability requires the use of the SETENV function provided as part of the
- 1.3 operating system. In addition, there is a new command available from
- the command mode which allows you to define the default window size for NEW
- windows.
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- In order to use this function, assign ENV: to the RAM: disk, and
- use the SETENV command such as -
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- 1>setenv qedsize "0 20 300 100"
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- Where the four parameters are left edge, top edge, width, and height in
- pixels. If you enter any erroneous arguments, the window is opened to the
- full size of the WB screen a few pixels below the title bar.
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- 5.) There has been a report of a bug from a Gentleman from New York who
- indicated he downloaded QED_BETA.12.ZOO from P-LINK, and that it would
- consistently crash on his system when opening a file. I have been unable
- to reproduce this bug, though he indicates everything is fine when running
- QED_BETA.11.ZOO???? In fact he often could not even get it started. If
- anyone else can confirm this bug, please contact me ASAP at (714) 545-6458.
- Thanks, Darren Greenwald.
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- Whats new as of 4/22/89
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- beta 0.12
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- 1.) There is now a move cursor to end of window command available from the
- command mode.
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- 2.) There is now a move cursor to top of window command available from the
- command mode.
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- 3.) There is now a text insert command available from the command mode
- which inserts a string of text at the cursor position. For example, you
- could assign ALT/(any key of your choice) to insert a string such as
- "printf(". This command also allows you to include new line
- characters, and tabs in your strings as well as delete, and
- backspace.
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- 4.) A bug has been fixed which could occured under beta 0.11 when
- activating another text editing window; the bug was evident by the
- check marks in the "Options" menu possibly not being set properly. Under
- beta 0.11, the bug would only occur if you activated another window when
- QED was busy (e.g., saving a file)
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- 5.) You can now assign commands to the function keys (when pressed alone),
- or any key when pressed in conjunction with the CTRL, ALT, or SHIFT keys.
- This means that there are about 300 keyboard combinations possible which
- can be used for assiging QED commands, DOS commands, or ARexx macros.
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- 6.) The user documentation, and introduction have been slightly modified.
- I will probably continue to release the documentation with QED for a while
- until the number of changes are few at which point the documentation will
- be released as a separate ZOO'ed file.
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- 7.) There is a now a window size/position command available from the
- command mode which allows you to adjust the position, and size of windows
- easily. Typically this command would be assigned to key press combinations
- of your choice, allowing you to quickly rearrange your text editing windows.
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