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*** The Aurora Editor v1.1, October 1993 ***
(c) Copyright 1993 Aurora Terra, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
Welcome to The Aurora Editor v1.1. The Aurora Editor is a beautiful
new high performance text editor with a superb windowing environment,
full mouse support, a huge one gigabyte virtual memory for editing
very large files, an object oriented macro language, a multi-instance
programmable file manager, unlimited multi-level undo/redo, a 386
version, and much, much more!
To install The Aurora Editor, simply copy the distributed files to the
drive and directory of your choice. Add this directory to your DOS
"PATH" for easier access.
While you are using the editor, you can press F1 or click on the Help
menu bar item to obtain online help on any topic. Press <Esc> to
activate the pull-down menu system and explore the features of The
Aurora Editor.
The complete documentation for using and configuring the editor is
contained in the file A.DOC. Documentation for the Macro Language is
contained in the file AML.DOC. Both documents can be printed with the
DOS "print" command.
Thank you for evaluating The Aurora Editor!
What's new and different in version 1.1:
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Version 1.1 contains new features and also corrects a few problems
with the previous version (v1.01):
o Added the ability to edit all open files through one window.
Several new editor commands and options were added to support this
feature, and to allow you to customize it to your own preferences:
- Added the "Next" and "Prev" commands to the File menu. These
commands allow you to cycle forward and backward though all open
files using only the current Edit window.
- Added the "List.." command to the File menu. This command lists
all open files and allows you to select a file to replace the
file displayed in the current Edit window.
- The "Open at Cursor" and "Refresh" commands were removed from the
the default Edit window File menu, but are still available as
editor commands.
- Added the "OneWindow" configuration setting. This setting
specifies whether or not some editor commands will favor a
many-to-one "file to window" ratio over a one-to-one "file to
window" ratio.
- Added the "wquit" command. If "OneWindow" is ON, this command
closes a window, but still leaves the file within it open.
- Added the "fquit" command. If "OneWindow" is ON, this command
closes the file in the current window, but still leaves the
window open. The previous open file is then displayed in the
window.
- Added the new open option "e". When specified at the Open prompt,
this option loads a new file into the current Edit window while
still keeping the previous file open. The "e" option can also be
added to the configuration setting "OpenOpt" as a default open
option. If "OneWindow" is ON, the "e" option is added
automatically by the editor.
- A new one-character command code "e" (edit) was added to the File
Manager. This command works like the "o" (open) command code when
opening only one file. However, when opening multiple marked
files, all files are loaded into the same window (the "o" command
code creates a separate window for each file).
- A new one-character command code "y" was added to the File
Manager. This command works like the "b" (open binary) command
code when opening only one file. However, when opening multiple
marked files, all files are loaded into the same window (the "b"
command code creates a separate window for each file).
- The File Manager "z" (open and maximize) command code will now
load multiple marked files into one maximized window.
o Opening multiple marked files from the File Manager will no longer
bring the File Manager window to the surface after loading each
file.
o After using the <Tab> or <Alt-T> keys to highlight the drive menu
on the File Manager, you now can enter the drive letter to switch
drives.
o Added the new open option "l", which allows you to jump to a
specific line number when opening a file. This can be useful when
invoking the editor from another program.
o Added the "VidSav" configuration setting to capture and restore the
DOS entry screen for the registered version (the shareware version
always displays the exit screen).
o Added the "KeyTrim" configuration setting for optionally trimming
the keyboard buffer on slow machines (previous versions always
trimmed the keyboard buffer and did not work correctly with some
TSR's that insert keys into the keyboard buffer).
o Added the "KeyPad" configuration setting to enable/disable use of
the keypad "*", "-", "+", and "enter" keys as separate function
keys. These function keys can now be easily disabled for keypad
data entry.
o Added the "txt" library function for entering strings at the cursor
through the macro language.
o Added several new macro language native functions to perform basic
sequential and random file I/O:
- "dskopn" opens a file
- "dskcls" closes a file
- "dskrea" reads data from an open file
- "dskwri" writes data to an open file
- "dskpos" changes the current position in an open file
- "qdskatt" tests for file attributes
o Moving files to another drive with the File Manager (or backing up
files to another drive when saving) will now keep the file's
original date and time. Option "k" was added to the "dskcpy" native
function to keep a file's orginal date and time when copying.
o Internal editor memory management has been improved.
o Removed edit checks on marking blocks when a marked block already
exists in another Edit window.
o Fixed a scrolling bug that occured while loading marked files from
the File Manager when the configuration setting "FmgrQuit" is ON.
o Fixed a mouse tracking problem in video modes with more than 80
columns (a updated mouse driver may still be required to use the
mouse properly in these video modes).
o Fixed a printing bug when the left margin is non-zero.
o The keypad "5" key now works correctly when numlock is ON.
o Fixed a bug associated with locating 1-line text folds.
o Documention fixups