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▌ WindE HELP ▐
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NOTE FOR NEW USERS:
Use the <PgUp> & <PgDn> Keys to review
these help files.
ALT+B will bury the top window, exposing
the window immediately below.
ALT+Z will alternately Zoom the window
from its current size to full screen and
back again.
ALT+Q will Quit WindE (allowing WindE
to start-up in the same state it was
in when this session began).
ALT+X will eXit WindE (allowing WindE
to start-up with the screen in the state
that it is in now).
The help files ( *.hlp ) provide a reference
to new users. For a more complete descrip-
tion of how to use WindE, refer to the
user manual supplied with registered copies
of WindE.
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▌Introduction──What is WindE?▐
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■ WindE──WINDow Editor.
■ WindE──mouse Editor.
■ WindE──high productivity Editor.
■ WindE──programmer's Editor.
■ WindE──reverse polish Editor?
WindE is all of the above, but most
importantly, WindE is a High Productivity
Editor. Programmers can spend as much as
80 to 90 percent of their time using a text
editor.
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▌If it takes 8 hours to enter a pro- ▐
▌gram, who cares if the compiler only▐
▌takes 20 seconds to do the compile? ▐
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That is not exactly fair, we want all of our
tools to be productive──but the point is,
the place where the majority of the work is
done is the place that stands to gain the
most from being more productive.
Editors are very personal tools──programmers
love their editor. Consequently programmers
are skeptical about changing editors. What
makes WindE so special?
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▌WindE was optimized to use the Mouse▐
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The mouse is just a gimmick, right? Wrong.
In WindE, you will be able to point to a file
name and with the click of a button, open
the file for editing. In WindE, with a
stroke of the mouse, a block of text can be
selected and with a click of a button, that
text can be searched for, deleted, copied,
moved, replaced with other text and all
without having to do any typing.
How many times have you entered a find
command in your editor──and the following
transpires:
■ Editor prompts for text to be found.
■ You are looking at text to be found
on your screen.
■ You wish you could point to the screen
and say "That text, right there!"
With WindE, that is almost exactly what you
do, except that you point to the text first
(select it) and then enter the find command
(It is a reverse polish Editor!) via a
pop-up menu.
Having the ability to open any number of
files (windows) simultaneously is a powerful
feature, but the mouse makes movement between
these files practical.
Some editors use the mouse as an after-
thought, but equally as disastrous would be
an editor that did not strike the correct
balance between keyboard and mouse functions.
All of the mouse functions can be executed
from the keyboard when it is more convenient
to do so.
WindE eliminates unnecessary hand movement
between the mouse and the keyboard. Un-
necessary mouse movement is also eliminated
by using pop-up menus that pop-up at the
push of a button (instead of having to move
the mouse to a menu line).
Read on──as you learn more about WindE, I am
sure you will agree that it is a tool that
can save you much time and make you a more
productive programmer.
Thanks for taking the time to look at WindE,
Bill Block
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▌PRESS: ALT+B to bury this window▐
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