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Following is a listing of changes from FastEddie3.0 to FastEddie3.1:
new features:
Ñ extensive undos
Ñ zoombox
Ñ <Option><transfer...> adds transfer menu items
Ñ global find is now flagged in menu bar with "ñ"
Ñ word wrap on is now flagged in window title bar with "ñ"
Ñ transferring to mmcc or batchx is now case insensitive to menu item
Ñ <option><Print> disables background printing
(for use with independant print spooler)
Ñ cut and paste with <option><click> now uses desk scrap
Ñ copy and paste with <cmd><click> now uses desk scrap
pretifications:
Ñ ok button on about window
Ñ window menu now displays file name rather than full path name
Ñ "Move over" renamed "Move"
minor bugs fixed:
Ñ maximum allowable full path name up from 80 to 256 characters
(bombed if exceeded)
Ñ intermittent tab misbehavior fixed (tedo fix)
Ñ "Move" more robust:
Ñ when last line was fully selected move included the following line
Ñ move left with leading tabs was miscalculating
Ñ print rountines more robust (memory management strengthened)
Ñ print from desktop fixed
Ñ extra page was skipped by <Option>CR alone on a line
Ñ Save now checks if file is already open (to prevent problems
when another program in switcher has left the file open)
Ñ transfering a multiple window file to mmcc passed multiple copies of
the file
Ñ "Justify block" with leading tabs debugged
Ñ copy paste buffers were creating spurious pastes
Ñ single digit date insertion was inserting '\0' thus foiling "find"
Following is a listing of changes from FstEddie2.9 to FastEddie3.0:
new features:
Ñ lines per printed page now in About <filename>╔ dialog
Ñ helps you determine where to put form feeds
prettifications:
Ñ windows menu now handles up to 200 windows
Ñ title marked with leading ╞ when file has been changed
Ñ tab width now based on spaces rather than w's
Ñ move over to the left is therefore cleaner
Ñ full path title with more than 2 parents now of the form:
DiskName:...:Directory:Filename Ñ large path names therefore fit better in title bar
Ñ neat windows (now stack windows) is now much faster and
cleaner
bugs fixed:
Ñ form feed (<Option><Return>) debugged
Ñ was periodically feeding xtra form
Ñ insert a file into a file debugged
(bombed in 2.9 only)
Following is a listing of changes from FstEddie2.8 to FastEddie2.9:
new features:
Ñ standard tabs (for word wrap off)
Ñ word wrap uses text edit tabs
prettifications:
Ñ move over improved to account for hard tabs
Ñ if tabs are smart lead of lines transformed to max tabs
Ñ it tabs create spaces lead of lines transformed to spaces
Ñ maxmem changed to compactmem to minimize disk access
Ñ rebuilding menus now avoids releasing resources
(also to minimize disk access)
Ñ file menu unhighlighted when background printing starts
Following is a listing of changes from FstEddie2.7 to FastEddie2.8:
new features:
Ñ high quality background printing
Ñ save copy to... in file menu to make backup files
prettifications:
Ñ linE gap multiwindow behavior much improved
Following is a listing of changes from FstEddie2.6 to FastEddie2.7:
new features:
Ñ printer enabled
Ñ <Option><Return> inserts a FormFeed (0X0C)
Ñ selecting print from the finder will print the selected
files as full width with the default font.
Ñ line insertion now much faster when appropriate memory
is available
Ñ intelligent transfer to Megamax programs:
Ñ bAtchx transfer passes only top ".bat" file
Ñ mmcc transfer passes only ".c" files
Ñ open by selection now opens files in active window's directory
Ñ accepts list of files separated by punctuation
(space, newline, tab, comma, etc.)
Ñ <cmd><Option><doubleClick> tiles the top 4 windows
prettifications:
Ñ 32K transition cleaner
Ñ "Move over" now accounts for tabs
Ñ Lineheight set to accent + decent + leading + linE gap
(see display menu)
Ñ ' is no longer a punct_char (to improve glossary)
Ñ <DoubleClick> in title bar has simplified behavior
Ñ head of option menu shows available memory
Ñ size menu incorporated into font menu
minor bug fixed:
Ñ closing a multi window file of more than two windows
confused the window stacker
Following is a listing of changes from FstEddie2.5 to FastEddie2.6:
new features:
Ñ open files are passed to the "transfer..." program
Ñ mmcc auto error display is enabled for HFS
Ñ the standard clipboard is now implemented
Ñ "linE gas is..." in display menu changes lineheight
(<cmd><Shift>E decreases spacing, <cmd>E increases
it), "save oPtions" makes the last change the default
prettifications:
Ñ the window title is now the full path name
Ñ user "transfer..." programs (program names added to the
end of the file menu) are now disabled if they cannot be
opened
Ñ changing fonts maintains the existing font size
Ñ Auto indent copies both TABS and blanks
Ñ inserting a blank before a TAB moves the TAB to next stop
Ñ stacked windows are now much larger (and more useful)
bug fixed:
Ñ synchronized scrolling bombed with only one window open
Following is a listing of changes from FstEddie2.4 to FastEddie2.5:
new features:
Ñ "insert returns" in display menu inserts carriage returns at
line breaks in selected text (use with word wrap to "freeze"
line widths)
Ñ "delete returns" in display menu deletes carriage returns in
selected text (to undo "insert returns")
Ñ <cmd><Shift><Enter> extends selection to the end of the file
(our answer to a request for "Select all")
Ñ <Option><Shift><Enter> extends selection the to top of the file
and scrolls to the top of the file (ditto)
Ñ change buffer in "find, change..." now understands "\n"
(carriage return) and "\t" (tab) and "\l" (linefeed)
Ñ "about <file>" now has column number (requested by Fortran
programmers)
bug fixed:
Ñ auto scroll now works with Mac+ ROMs (The erradic behavior of
SelRect in the new ROMs caused much grief)
Following is a listing of changes from FstEddie2.3 to FastEddie2.4:
new features:
Ñ <cmd><Option>W now activates next window
Ñ <cmd><Option><Shift>W now activate previous window
Ñ optional hard TAB emulation
Ñ "tabs are simple" in options menu uses appropriate spaces
instead of TAB characters .. "tabs are smart" emulates
"hard" tabs
Ñ cursor movement from arrows on Mac+ or keypad
Ñ default is character movement
Ñ use <Option> for word and line movement
Ñ use <Shift> to extend selection
prettifications:
Ñ Untitled now without leading disk name
Ñ horizontal scroll to home on change to wrap (simplifies code)
Ñ horizontal scroll now disallowed in word wrap (simplifies code)
Ñ flushevents on startup eliminated (eliminates periodic problem
with disk insertion during "open..." dialog startup)
minor bugs fixed:
Ñ transfer from TabsOut (V1.2) now works
Ñ break lines in File menu now always disabled
Ñ slight horizontal scroll misallignment fixed