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pE - The "perfect" Editor(tm)
Copyright (c) 1990-1993 by Just Excellent Software, Inc.
These notes are addendum to the printed pE manual.
Release 4.02 - Sep 16, 1993
------------
┌──────────────────┐
│Ignore Zero switch│
└──────────────────┘
Normally, the way pE tells if a file is ASCII or not is to look
for a binary zero (hex 00). When found, pE presumes the file is
not ASCII and puts out the message 'UNKOWN Format', and offers
to convert to a HEX display. pE will not search through such a
file, either. If you start pE with /I for ignore zeros, pE will
change all such zeros to blank characters and read the file as
though it were ASCII. DO NOT EDIT AND THEN SAVE SUCH A FILE.
Odds are you will wind up with complete garbage. In fact best
to open a file in view only mode after you set the /I. Alt-V
calls the file chooser for view-only opening of a file.
Any zeroes found past the character hex 1A (decimal 26, ^Z) are
converted to space characters and the file is decoded as though
it were ASCII. This is to accomodate ASCII files created by
strange programs that pad out to block boundaries with zeroes
after inserting a ^Z at 'end of file'.
┌──────────────┐
│File Selection│
└──────────────┘
The file chooser now allows selection of multiple files. The
space bar will toggle selection on/off. Alt (or Ctrl) T, U, and
I will also T(ag) all, U(ntag) all, or I(nvert) tags. Once one
or more files are tagged, pressing Enter will load them all.
Pressing F4 (delete), will make pE offer to delete one at a time
or all. Please be careful. Answering 'A' for All will delete
all the marked files, without further questions. A count of
tagged items is displayed in the upper right border of the
chooser window.
┌────────────┐
│Drive Select│
└────────────┘
The file chooser now displays disk drive letters for your
selection by mouse or keyboard. To rapidly get to the drive
letter 'A' simply type '['. The highlight will immediately
advance to '[A:]'. If you press '[' again, you will cycle
through all of the drive letters on your computer. The
auxiliary window will show what the current directory is for
each of the various drives. pE will position to that directory
if the drive highlited is selected. Note that pressing a single
'.' will always get to '..\' which is the symbol for the
directory one level up from your current directory.
┌─────────┐
│Add Block│
└─────────┘
pE will add a column of numbers for you! Just mark using Alt-B
(rectangular block) and press ^a_b (add block). The numbers do
not have to be aligned and decimals are OK. The only
restriction is that a number cannot have more than 6 digits past
the decimal point. Decimal points do not have to be aligned,
there can be blank lines in the block as well as spaces before
or after the number, but not between characters of the number.
---------
|123 |
| 456 | adds up to 1368
| 789|
---------
just as
---
|123|
|456| adds up to 1368
|789|
---
-----------
|1.234 |
| 23| adds up to 35.3907
|2.4567 |
|8.7 |
-----------
just as
-------
| 1.234 |
|23 | adds up to 35.3907
| 2.4567|
| 8.7 |
-------
The total is inserted at the current cursor position when the
command is executed, so mark the block, end the mark, and
position where you want the total printed before pressing ^a_b.
┌───────────────────────┐
│Searching through files│
└───────────────────────┘
There's a way to make pE search directories, and subdirectories
much faster.
When pE brings up the file chooser, what files are shown and
searched is determined by:
- Any mask from the command line or entered in the
'auxiliary' window. The auxiliary window is where the
file size, date, etc are shown.
- For searches, any mask entered in the 'Mask' field of the
search dialog
- The "excluded" extensions. By default, these are:
■ EXE - these are executable file
■ COM - same
■ OBJ - the results of a compile step
■ OVL - common extension for executable overlays
■ LIB - collection of OBJ's
■ $$$ - 'temporary' files
■ BMP - Bit map files
■ GIF - picture files
■ ZIP - pkzip archive files
Unless you direct otherwise, files having these extensions
are EXCLUDED from the directory display. If you press
Alt-H (hex toggle) with the file chooser active, then all
of these exclusions are removed and you get to see all
files in the directory. Choosing one will then display a
HEX dump format of that file.
- These files are excluded because they are not text files
in the strictest sense. Their formats are unknown to pE
and it can only display and edit them as HEX dumps.
- When searching from the file chooser, files having those
extensions are also excluded. Once again, pE does not
know what the format of these files are. There can be
other files, having other extensions, that you may wish
NOT to be presented in the file chooser.
Create a file named EXCLUDED.PED. You may put this file
into a particular directory or you may put this file in
pE's 'home directory', ie, from where pE is loaded.
When pE wakes up, it first looks in the current directory,
then in the home directory, and finally if it doesn't find
a file named EXCLUDED.PED it assigns the default excluded
extensions named above.
Most typically, when you are searching for text, you do
not need to search through executable files that you have
not created. By excluding specific files identified by
their extensions, you restrict searching to only those
files that may be relevant. Of course if you've
segregated your text files by putting them in a separate
directory, you don't have these problems. But if you're
like many people who keep text and exe's combined, then
EXCLUDED.PED is for you.
The format of EXCLUDED.PED is very simple.
- one entry per line
- the extension only (up to 3 characters, NO dot or
period)
- Up to 40 extensions may be excluded.
- If the file is empty, ie only a single blank line,
there will be NO exclusions and all files will be
processed.
- If you have an EXCLUDED file then you must put all of
the extensions you wish excluded there. Its an all or
nothing proposition.
- for WordPerfect directories that contain the WP
executable, I recommend the following exclusions be in
EXCLUDED.PED in the wpNN directory.
■ EXE |
■ COM |
■ OBJ |
■ OVL | All as above
■ LIB |
■ $$$ |
■ BMP |
■ GIF |
■ ZIP |
■ FRS |<-- plus the ones starting here
■ VRS |
■ PRS | most of these are pieces of WordPerfect
■ FIL | and need not be considered when you look
■ PIF | at, or search through this directory. By
■ ALL | putting EXCLUDED.PED in this directory, pE
■ DRS | will exclude these extension only when you
■ QRS | access files in this directory. If you put
■ IRS | this file in pE's home directory, then files
■ LRS | having these extensions would be excluded
■ MRS | everywhere. Just make SURE you do not use
■ SET | any of these extensions yourself!
■ CRS |
■ DVP |
■ INS |
■ LCN |
- Remember, extensions in this file don't get searched
and files having these extension don't apear in the
file chooser.
- This can be a very useful feature to keep the number
of files you need to deal with to a small number.
Release 4.01 Aug 12, 1993
------------
┌────────────────────────┐
│Enhanced Search Features│
└────────────────────────┘
pE has a brand new Search and Replace dialog!
╔══[ <Search/Replace> ]════════════════════════╗
║Search For ║██
║██████████████████████████████████████████████║██
║──────────────────────────────────────────────║██
║Replace With ║██
║██████████████████████████████████████████████║██
║──────────────────────────────────────────────║██
║ [ ] Backward [ ] Case Sensitive ║██
║ [ ] Find All [ ] Pattern (Reg Exp) ║██
║ [ ] All Windows [ ] Load all Matches ║██
║ [ ] Search SubDirs Mask:*.* ║██
║──────────────────────────────────────────────║██
║ < OK > < Cancel > ║██
║ ║██
╚═════════ Ctrl+Enter to Start Search ═════════╝██
████████████████████████████████████████████████
If you press Alt-F(ind) or Alt-R(eplace) or Shift F5 (Found
List, the above dialog box appears. If no search string is
defined, pressing FindForward (F5) or FindBackward (F6) will
call up the dialog box, as well.
- if you're doing a search, type in what to look for
in the area underneath the "Search For".
- then check any buttons you want by using the space bar,
the letter x, the highlited letter, or the mouse to set
a backward search (Backward), search for all occurrences
in one file (Find All), in All Windows (All Windows),
Make the search Case Sensitive (must match upper and
lower case exactly), and the search string is a Regular
Expression (Pattern). You will need to review regular
expressions in the peuser.txt file if you are not
familiar with search patterns.
- you move around the dialog box by using the arrow keys,
the tab, or the enter. Pressing the first letter of any
button will also move you to that button and check it on
or off depending on what it was. Of course the mouse as
can be used to navigate as well.
- pressing ESC (escape) cancels any entry and returns to
the editing screen. Clicking the Cancel button with the
mouse or pressing Enter when the Cancel Button highlited
will have the same effect.
- Pressing the OK button with the mouse, or Enter when OK
is highlighted will begin the search or replace.
- The title of the dialog box will indicate whether or not
you are beginning a search or replace.
- If you pressed Shift F5 (Found List), the dialog box
automatically comes up with
[x] Find All
checked, otherwise its the same as a Find. Setting
'Find All' on means you want a list of ALL occurrences
of the search string, either in the current window, all
windows of even all files in this directory, or all
files in this directory and all subdirectories; see
'Calling Find from Chooser', below.
- If you press Alt-R(eplace), instead of 'Find All', the
second button look like
[ ] Replace All
checking this button will replace all occurrences of
string 1 with string 2. Further if [x] All Windows is
checked, all occurrences EVERYWHERE will be changed.
Please use caution! Enter a value in the 'Replace
With' area. Please note that a NULL (empty) 'Replace
With' is a VALID replacement. You may be trying to
delete part of every string. If you leave the 'Replace
With' area empty, pE will ask for a confirmation of your
intent.
- NOTE: If you mark an area, do a replace all and don't
like the result, alt-0 (zero) undoes the replace. This
will only work in a single window and only as long as
you have memory.
- You begin the Search or Replace with Ctrl+Enter
anytime after you have entered the necessary information.
- NOTE: Any macros which did a DefineFind in previous
versions of pE, need to be rewritten to accommodate the
Ctrl-Enter exit rather than just Enter.
┌─────────────────────────────┐
│Calling Find from the Chooser│
└─────────────────────────────┘
pE will search through files finding any text you are looking
for. The files can be any of the recognized formats, ie
■ WordPerfect
■ Word for Windows
■ Word for DOS
■ AmiPro
■ Windows Write
or just plain ASCII Text.
pE ignores most files whose formats are not one of the above.
From the File Chooser (Alt-O(pen), Alt-V(iew), Alt-E(dit),
simply press F5 (or whatever key you have assigned to
DefineFind (Alt-F is default). From the Chooser, the buttons
have a slightly different meaning:
- Find All means build a list of EVERY occurrence of
the search string, so the entire file is scanned. If
Find All is left off, then only the FIRST occurrence is
noted. As you would expect, this is a faster search.
- Load all Matches only has effect from the file chooser.
If set, any files meeting the search criteria will be
automatically loaded into pE in separate windows.
- Load all Matches and Find All are mutually exclusive.
If you set one, the other will be unset.
- All windows has no effect from the file chooser.
- Backward has no effect from the file chooser.
- Search SubDirs, if set will search not only in the
current directory, but in all subdirectories of the
current directory. If at the root directory, IT WILL
SEARCH THE ENTIRE DRIVE.
- Mask: allows you to search a category of files, like
*.txt, or *.doc, or *.wp, or even pe*.* (all files
beginning with the letters pe. It is much faster to
specify a narrowing mask; if you leave it *.*, pE will
look at all files EXCEPT for files that have extensions
which are obviously binary. (.exe,.obj,.dll,...). The
default setting is whatever you came into the chooser
with.
- [x] Find All builds a found list by writing to a file
named FND.$$$. When the search finishes, FND.$$$ is
read into a pE window and DELETED (if completely read).
Files starting with the character '~~' and having
extensions of '.$$$' are deleted when read by pE. This
means that you must do a save to a different name if you
wish to keep these files. The directory used for
FND.PED is the one pointed to by the setting of the TMP
environment variable. If TMP doesn't point anywhere,
the current directory is used. This is important to
know only because if FND.$$$ is NOT completely read in,
it is NOT deleted and you may want to delete it if TMP
is on permanent media.
- A search may be interrupted at any time by pressing ESC
(escape).
┌───────────────────────┐
│Mark words with a mouse│
└───────────────────────┘
If you hold the Alt key down while you click (left button) on
a word, the word will be highlighted (marked). Pressing F5
will 'capture' this text and automatically begin a search.
Even if not found, this is a good way to get complicated text
into the 'Search For' part of the dialog window.
┌─────────────────┐
│View Only Windows│
└─────────────────┘
View only windows are no longer a special color. Instead the
'File Modified' symbol on the status line is a 'φ' instead of
an '*'.
┌───────────────┐
│Text conversion│
└───────────────┘
pE has been enhanced to read all the major Word Processing
formats. This release include the ability to read and convert
to 'straight' ASCII, the following formats:
WordPerfect 5.1, 5.2 for DOS & Windows
MicroSoft Word for Windows 1.0 & 2.0
MicroSoft Word for DOS 5.0 & 5.5
AMI Pro for Windows 2.0 & 3.0
MicroSoft Windows 3.1 Write
No special action is required of the user. pE simply
determines what format is required and converts appropriately.
Most formatting, including table layouts, is lost. What
remains is the ASCII text present in the document.
Tabs are detabbed using an interval of 5 spaces for word
processing files, and whatever the detab setting for ASCII
documents. (usually 8).
Long Lines (longer than the right margin setting of Paragraph
Format) are wrapped to column 1 on input if WrapLines (see
below) is on.
┌─────────┐
│WrapLines│
└─────────┘
Command line switch /l or L has been added. L for long lines.
pE will wrap long lines at the right margin setting of
Paragraph Format (see Option menu). This is very handy when
converting from Word Processors which write out paragraphs
as a single line. If you read in a file which has these
long (sometimes thousands of bytes) lines, simply call up
the option set menu (Alt-tab) and turn on WrapLines. You
may alternatively press Ctrl-(grey)+.
All of the options in the option settings menu are now saved
and restored from env.ped when saved.
Release 3.05 - July 4, 1993
------------
A number of relatively minor anomalies have been corrected.
- Page Down now works correctly after a file is minimized,
then maximized.
- Any number of files (but less than 40) may be opened
from the command line, separated by commas, up to the dos
command line length limit.
- pE now correctly opens files without extensions from the
command line.
- default path is provided along with default name of
"NO_NAME" when a new window is opened.
- If the first character typed in response to a prompt on
the status line is a 'del' key, the status line is cleared
- Shift + numeric pad arrow keys no longer mark text
unless the Num Lock key is activated. With the number of
101 key keyboards, it is felt that the 'grey' arrow keys
shifted is sufficient. This allows the numeric key pad to
be used to enter numbers by holding the shift key down
(which was the intended use). Note that shift and any of
the 'grey' arrow keys will mark text. Also ^K_K will
begin and end a stream block.
┌───────────────┐
│Wordstar Switch│
└───────────────┘
Added /w as a command line switch. When invoked, /w strips
the high bit (sets to 0) so that graphic characters used by
WordStar are reset to normal characters. There is no
corresponding toggle within pE.
┌────────────┐
│Options Menu│
└────────────┘
Added an options menu. You can get to it from the Options
pull down menu or by pressing the assigned key. Key.txt (and
.ped) have been modified to assign Alt-tab to this function.
Once the menu is presented, position to the desired option and
press ENTER. A check mark appears (or disappears) to the
left of the option indicating ON/OFF status. When you have
finished setting options, press ESC.
┌──────────────┐
│Visible Spaces│
└──────────────┘
^Ins will toggle visible spaces on/off. When on, space
characters are replaced with the current 'visible' space
character (default value is decimal 250 [·]. The default can
be changed with the command line switch 'e'.
/e:n
n = decimal value of character to be used when displaying
blanks [default is 250 '·'].
If you would like to just make spaces visible but not
change the default value then use
/e: Please note the colon is necessary in order to read
subsequent command line options (like the filename or
filespec
┌────────────┐
│Leave Blanks│
└────────────┘
Alt-Ins (the grey Ins, not the 0 on numpad) will toggle leave
blanks on. Normal behavior for pE is to trim blanks from the
end of lines. This means you cannot create a file having
blanks after non-blank characters. Which of course, also
means you cannot create a file having blank lines (lines
consisting of only blanks. Now comes the 'Anders' option,
named after the first requester. Command line switch 'a' (for
anders) will leave trailing blanks alone.
As usual, any command line option may be set 'permanently' by
including the PED environment variable:
In AUTOEXEC.BAT
SET PED=C:\PE /a /....
This would mean 'do not trim spaces' each time pE is
invoked.
Of course, one can also create batch files with different
combinations of switches for different purposes.
Release 3.04 - May 18, 1993
------------
┌─────────────┐
│Opening Files│
└─────────────┘
pE will edit a file (put an existing file into a new window)
through the simple means of you typing the file name (full
filespec if needed) on a line by itself and pressing Alt-I
(include).
┌──────────────────┐
│Multiple file open│
└──────────────────┘
pE will accept a list of files to open on the command line
formatted as follows:
pe file1.ext,file2,ext,file3.ext
If this form of command line is used, then any line number
entered after the filename is ignored. Any files in the list
that cannot be opened are bypassed and ignored without
message. Files are opened with windows minimized, except for
the last file, which is opened in a full window. If you want
to open a group of files consistently, it is much easier (at
least less to type) to enter the filenames into a file named
list.ped and to open using the @; see below @ command.
┌──────────────┐
│QuickExit&Save│
└──────────────┘
QuickExit&Save (Alt-Q) will write each modified file back to
the same name and exit. It no longer prompts for files other
than the current. IF YOU DO NOT INTEND TO SAVE ALL CHANGED
FILES use Alt-X (Exit). Exit will prompt for each file
changed before exiting.
┌──────────┐
│AllWindows│
└──────────┘
AllWindows is a toggle which determines the boundary of find
and search/replace. When on, any find will continue to
look for the "find" string in other windows. Windows are
searched in number sequence. If the search direction is
forward, then the next higher window number is jumped to and
searched starting with the first line and proceeding to the
end of the file. If the search direction is backwards, then
the next lower window number is jumped to and searched
beginning with the last line moving towards the top of the
file. When all windows have been searched, the search stops.
Replace will replace across all windows at once. BE CAREFUL.
This is real power!!! Make sure of what you're changing
before you change everywhere. One way to do that is to use
pE's FoundList command; see below.
You may now open 40 files at one time, memory allowing.
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│With pEp this is almost never a problem. (see "order.frm")│
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Hint. Keeping a file minimized saves 8K of memory per window.
┌─────────┐
│FoundList│
└─────────┘
pE will now create a "found list" and put it into a new window
named "FIND.PED". The format of the found list is the
filename in which pE found the string, the line number and the
string. By positioning your cursor on any of the found items,
pE will jump to the window and line number of the find string.
It is very fast and will work in a single window or against
all window depending on the setting of AllWindows; see above.
There must be at least one available (unopened) window for
foundlist to work.
Foundlist differs from find in that it always searches
beginning with the first line and proceeding to the last in
each file, regardless of the cursor location. In addition it
references only the first occurrence of a string on the line,
rather that repeating the same line over for successive
occurrences.
┌───────┐
│Key.txt│
└───────┘
Key.txt has received a work over. Many comments have been
added along with a few key changes. As usual, the latest key
definitions are found dynamically assigned in the command
window (F1) and in the help text of each pull down menu.
┌──────────────┐
│The @ command.│(on the command line)
└──────────────┘
pE will now open all files in a file list.
1. Create a file with the files you wish to open
you can simply type the names into pE and save the file
as list.ped. (what you call it is optional)
you may use the DOS dir command with the > symbol to
create the file list, i.e.
dir *.c /b >list.ped
would cause a list of all the files having an extension
of 'c' to be listed into list.ped. Please note the /b,
it is necessary to cause DOS to not leave spaces
between the file name and extension. If you use 4DOS,
you don't need the /b.
2. execute pe by typing
pe @[name]
by default, when pe sees the @ alone, it will open
list.ped and proceed to open each file therein in a
different window, until it runs low on memory (when
there is 12K left) or it runs out of windows (40). If
you wish to use a different file list, simply type the
name after the @, i.e.,
pe @proj
All files, except the last, will be opened as minimized
windows.
┌────────┐
│JumpPrev│
└────────┘
You can now cycle forward or backward through the window
chain. Pressing JumpPrev (F2) will jump to the window
numbered one less than the current window. When a window is
closed, the window numbered one less is made the active
window.
┌────────┐
│JumpZoom│
└────────┘
Pressing F12 (shift F12) will tell you JumpZoom is ON.
Pressing again will tell you its OFF.
When JumpZoom is ON and you push the JumpNext (or Prev) key,
the current window is minimized, the jump occurs and the new
window is maximized. In other words if all of your windows
are minimized and you want to go from one to another, this is
a way in which you can minimize the use of memory and still
have up to 40 files open at once.
When JumpZoom is OFF, JUMP will simply take you to the next
window, and not affect its size.
┌─────────────────┐
│Minimize/Maximize│
└─────────────────┘
The right mouse button double clicked on the top
border of a window will either minimize or maximize the window
depending on in current state. Just double click anywhere
left of the right edge - 1.
You may also click once with the left button and follow that
with a click of the right button. Just don't move the mouse
in between clicks.
The control menu is gone. It was superfluous, unneeded and a
pain. Pressing Alt Space bar produces a space.
If you click on the 'control' gadget, the window will close.
All of the functions available under the control menu are
available through key strokes, mouse clicks or the command
window. If anyone out there really cares, let me know.
When running under WINDOWS, you can now reach WINDOWS control
menu with Alt Space bar.
┌──────────────┐
│UnDo Paragraph│
└──────────────┘
If you align paragraph (Alt-a) and don't like the result,
press ^F10. The lines involved will be restored as they were
before you aligned the paragraph. We're still working on a
general UnDo.
Release 3.03 - April 7, 1993
------------
By popular demand, I removed the timer on the alt key. It
was confusing/annoying and unpopular. Its gone. Go to the
menu with Alt+Shift or Shift F1. /m is gone also.
┌───────────────────────────┐
│Align Paragraph and Drawbox│
└───────────────────────────┘
When Alt + Shift was implemented to activate the menu, pE was
no longer able to confirm paragraph alignment with Alt +
Shift A. Similarly, drawbox could no longer redefine box
styles 6 - 9 with Alt + Shift + (6,..9). This has been
remedied in this release through the use of the Ctrl key. To
temporarily change paragraph formats, use Alt + Ctrl + A. To
change the definition of box styles 6 through 9, use Alt +
Ctrl + 6 thru 9.
┌────────┐
│Calendar│
└────────┘
Alt-F2 brings up a calendar. (Calendar is also in the edit
menu). Page Down advances a year at a time, Page Up goes
back a year. The arrow keys advance/retract a month at a
time. Left, Up go back, Right, Down go forward. The
calendar window cannot be sized, maxed or minimized, but can
be moved wherever its convenient. The calendar is accurate
for dates between 100 ad and 14000 ad. Control Page Up will
restore the date to the current date (system date).
Pressing Alt-L(linemark) while in the calendar, followed by
Control-End(pagebottom) will mark the lines in the calendar.
Pressing the grey* will then copy the current month to the
scrap. Now you can paste that month into any window. Note
that when you start marking again in the calendar the first
line marked will now be the bottom line so that you will have
to press Control-Home (pagetop) to mark from the bottom to
the top of the calendar. Using this method you can construct
a calendar for any year, from any month to any month.
Release 3.02 - February 9, 1993
------------
┌────────┐
│Menu Key│
└────────┘
Alt + Shift will access the menu immediately. Shift + F1
will also access the menu immediately. The menu can also be
gotten to by pressing ALT and holding for approximately 1
second. Once the menu comes up you can press the first key
of the options F, E, S, W, O or H. You can adjust the amount
of time you must hold the alt key down with the command line
option /m:d where d is the delaytime in seconds. (whole
numbers only). A delay time of 0 causes the menu to come up
instantly, but prevents you from using the Alt key commands.
Please note that the environment variable PED can be set so
that pE will always use whatever command line variables are
set therein. For example
SET PED=C:\PE /m:2
placed in autoexec.bat tells pe that its home directory
is c:\pe and that it is to use a menu delay time of 2
seconds (default is 1). See the docs for other command
line choices. Setting a large delay time (like 10
seconds) effectively turns off this capability.
┌────────────┐
│Control Menu│ *** killed later ***
└────────────┘
pE now has a control menu like WINDOWS. Pressing Alt +
Spacebar (or clicking what used to be the close gadget), will
pull the control menu down. Control menus belong to windows,
so each window has one. The menu choices in the control menu
are:
■ Move - will move the current window (but only
if there's somewhere to move it.
■ Size - sizes the current window.
■ Minimize - reduces window to minimum size
■ Maximize - makes window as large as possible
■ Close - closes the window.
■ Switch to - the same as the Jump List command.
(switches to another window).
┌───────────────────┐
│Minimize & Maximize│
└───────────────────┘
Two new commands, minimize and maximize were added to make it
very easy to control window size. The advantage to
minimizing a window is that the a significant amount of
memory is made available. Zoom will toggle the state of a
window size when it is small or large. Sizing a window to
its maximum size set's 'both' sizes of a window to max.
┌──────────────┐
│Stack(Windows)│- new option under Window menu.
└──────────────┘
StackWindows will stack all windows to their minimum (or
maximum) sizes. It is a toggle. It is assigned to the F12
key. Those of you who have the old style keyboards will have
to assign it to some other key.
┌───────────┐
│ASCII chart│
└───────────┘
The ASCII chart was completely redone to be more useful and
easier to read. Calling up the chart will pop up a window
with a line devoted to each of 255 (out of 256) ASCII
characters. (0 - nul, is not present). The highlight is
placed on the last character it was on when you first called
the ASCII chart up. (The first time its starts at 1, the
control character A (). By using the arrow and page keys,
you can position to any character you wish. Of course, you
can also position with the mouse. Once you have selected the
character you wish to use, pressing ENTER causes that
character to be entered into the last window at the row and
col the cursor was on. Pressing ENTER again will enter the
character again. ESCaping from the ASCII window will close
it. So will the normal window close (alt-k) command. When
the ASCII window is closed (by any means), the character
under the highlight is assigned to LASTASCII, which I have
defined to be the (`) backward apostrophe (tilde?). Anyway,
subsequent to the ASCII chart making this assignment, each
press of the ` key will get you whatever ASCII character was
assigned. If you regularly have use for that key, then I
suggest you assign the command LastAscii to some other key.
The ASCII window will insert a character into the window
defined just before it, only when it is "active". It is
active when the border is double and the title ASCII is the
same color as the background of the window.
If a column block is defined (and visible) in the window
before the ASCII chart is selected, the character selected
from the ASCII chart is used to fill the block. You are
prompted for permission to fill the block first. If you
select FillBlock (^K-F), the ASCII chart pops up to provide
you with the entire range of ASCII characters to choose from.
The window the ASCII chart is in does not participate in
stacking (up or down) or cascading, but can be individually
minimized, maximized or sized. There isn't much point in
making it wider, although making it higher will allow you to
see more characters at once. Note that the F2 key will leave
the ASCII chart open and advance to the 'next' window. If
only two windows are open, the F2 key will shift the focus
from one to the other.
┌────────────┐
│Zoom Gadgets│
└────────────┘
The zoom gadget has been reworked to only appear if there are
two defined sizes of a window. The zoom character is an
arrow pointing either up or down. If it points up, when
clicked the window will get bigger. If it points down, when
clicked, the window will get smaller.
Release 3.01 - January 11, 1993
------------
╔══════════════╗
║Announcing pEp║
╚══════════════╝
I am pleased to announce the availability of pE - Professional.
pEp is the protected mode version of pE. This means that it
can use all the memory in your computer. It also means that
under Windows 3.1 (in enhanced mode) it will virtualize
memory to 16MB (presuming you have sufficient disk).
Registering pE allows you to purchase pEp at a discounted
price. pEp will not be available through normal shareware
channels, but only to registered pE users! You must have a
80286 (or better) with > 1 meg of memory to run pEp. You may
evaluate a copy of pEp by filling in the registration form
and mailing it in with a check or money order for $5
(+shipping). Registering pE will allow you to request a demo
copy of pEp for no additional charge. Previous pE
registrants may upgrade their versions of pE to the current
version and purchase pEp for an upgrade price of $29
(+shipping).
┌───────────────────┐
│Tab Key in Hex mode│
└───────────────────┘
The Tab key now toggles back between the ASCII portion and
HEX portion of a HEX display. Back Tab will go from ASCII to
HEX as well. The cursor is a block in HEX mode.
┌────────────┐
│ToggleDecHex│
└────────────┘
New command, ToggleDecHex, allows the offsets along the first
column of the hex display to go from hexadecimal to decimal.
While in decimal mode, you can jump to any decimal offset
within the file. Who likes doing hexadecimal arithmetic,
anyway? I've assigned Shift F9 as the key.
┌──────────┐
│Scroll Bar│
└──────────┘
The scroll bar has been changed to work like everyone else's.
(almost). I couldn't resist putting some gadgets in the
status line which work like my old scroll bar did. The
double arrow means that if you click with the left button the
window scrolls one way, with the right button it scrolls the
other way. The beauty of these gadgets are that if you get
rid of the borders, you still have a way to scroll and zoom
with the mouse. While the top scroll gadget (and now bottom)
work with the left mouse button the way you would expect, the
opposite action will occur if you click with the opposite
mouse button. If you press the left button on the top
gadget, the file scroll up (the arrow point up), if you press
the left button on the bottom gadget the file scrolls down.
The right button depressed on either of these gadgets
reverses the action of the left button. Clicking left
anywhere above the "thumb" will cause a page up, below the
thumb a page down. If you hold the mouse button down, you
will continue to page the file in the direction started until
you release the button. It's much easier to use than to
explain.
┌────────────┐
│Time Display│
└────────────┘
The time now displays in the right hand corner of the menu
bar. It is visible any time the menubar is visible. If you
pay attention to it, you will notice that the colon flashes
once a second.
┌──────────────┐
│Count of Files│
└──────────────┘
The number of files and directories in the current chooser
window is displayed in the lower right portion of the chooser
border.
History prior to this point may be requested from Author.