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$Id: whats-up.doc 1.9 93/08/31 03:25:46 ROOT_DOS Exp $
Captain Nemo version 0.2 improvments
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VIEWER
[1] Shift-F7 restarts search without asking for string again.
[8] Alt-F3 selects secondary viewer.
If F3 calls the external viewer, Alt-F3 will call the
internal one. If F3 calls the internal viewer, Alt-F3
will call the external one.
[13] Viewer has a HEX display mode. The mode is saved across files.
[14] Viewer can append the viewed file portion to a file.
It is always the binary file data which is appended,
not the screen image.
[53] When looking for strings in binary files, strings located
behind null characters can be found.
[57] File position is displayed properly for files over 20 Mb.
[58] Full pathname of the viewed file is displayed, instead of
the basename.
[59] Backscrolling speed in PM mode is greatly augmented (the
screen used to be redrawn entirely in spite of scrolling).
[61] ^E has the effect of arrow-up and ^X the effect of arrow-down
[63] Hilighted text search result stays hilighted longer.
EDITOR
[50] Built-in editor.
[59] 'dirinfo' files can be edited inside info panels.
DIRECTORY PANELS
[7] When changing the drive from a diskette drive to another drive,
Nemo doesn't try to access the diskette, to avoid hard
error daemon popups, in case the diskette has been removed.
[9] Mini-status windows shows size and number of tagged files, if any.
[16] After implicitely switching from brief to full directory format,
through a disk change (FAT to HPFS), Nemo 0.1 didn't notice
the change in the number of visible items per panel, so it
was possible to scroll out of the panel.
[17] Nemo has Brief formats for HPFS disks and logical naming mode.
They offer 2 colums of text on 80 column displays, and 3 on
a 132 column displays.
[24] File selection by initial starts at the current directory entry
instead of the directory beginning.
[25] Pressing "Ins" over an empty directory when "Ins Moves Down"
is off is ignored.
[26] Directories can be sorted case insensitively, as well as
sensitively.
[27] Mini-status mode can be used in as few as 8 lines.
[31] Directories can be sorted up or down.
[32) When sorting directories by size, Nemo sorts entries
corresponding to directories by name, like NC.
Direction is common.
[35] Pressing ^PageDown over something other than a directory entry
is ignored. Pressing ^PageDown over ".." acts like pressing
Enter, but doesn't replace the selection bar over the exited
directory's name.
[39] When creating a new dir while both panels show the same
dir, Nemo preserves the selection of the other panel
based on its name and not on its index.
[41] Tagged entries are not partly lost when executing an OS/2
command.
[52] Directory type is saved in nemo.ini even if a given panel is
saved as being "Info".
INFO PANELS
[23] Info panels never overflow.
[51] 'dirinfo' is displayed in info panels.
[54] Info panels are always 40 chars wide.
PANELS
[43] ^R is ignored when both panels are off.
[44] ^O, Alt-F1/F2, ^O doesn't exit through 'assert failed'.
FILE OPERATIONS
[3] Moving locked file gives better error diagnostic:
retry/copy/cancel.
Previously it displayed that the destination file is R/O
if the destination is on the same disk as the source.
NB: NC v.2 and v.3 both have this erroneous diagnostic.
[19] Dialog box displayed when copy or move is selected from F9/Files,
while both panels are hidden is correct.
[28] When copying, or moving files from the current panel,
Nemo proposes the directory of the other panel,
if this panel is visible and a directory. Otherwise,
it proposes the current selection as target (rename).
[30] When encountering file reading problems, Nemo tries to recover.
[37] When copying/moving several files, Nemo will stop in case
of errors.
[45] ^C can interrupt a single copy/move, as well as
multiple copies/moves.
[64] Using wildcards when copying files by Shift-F5/Shift-F6 works.
MENUS
[2] Arrow-down key pulls down menus.
This is a NC v.3 feature, not present in v.2
[15] Pull-down menus are scrollable and adjust themselves to
screen size. Nemo 0.1 exited through a failed assert
if the screen was too short.
[18] Pull-down menus accept Home/End/PageUp/PageDown.
[38] Hotkeys in pull-down menus are hilighted.
[40] When a menu cannot be shown entirely, a scrollbar is displayed.
SCREEN SAVER
[5] Screen saver doesn't leave cursor visible in PM mode.
[20] Screen saver leaves a wandering message instead of a blank screen.
FILE FINDER
[21] In FileFind, looking for "file.*" also gives "file".
(But looking for "file" doesn't give "file.ext".
Please use "file.*" as pattern in such cases.)
[22] FileFind can be used in as few as 8 display lines.
[48] ArrowDown key unlocks the File-Find listbox when searching,
just like the End key, if issued when the selection
bar is on the last entry.
GENERAL
[6] Cursor is hidden when the time is updated.
This avoids some parasites under the top left corner.
[10] ^P and ^S are operative.
But ^C is no more an interrupt char (it isn't in NC either).
^Break is required.
[11] Nemo doesn't waste CPU cycles when idle.
But the screen saver cannot be waked up with a dead key.
[29] When Nemo finds nemo.ini corrupted, it writes out a correct one
if "Save Setup"/F9/O/S is selected.
[33] Code page support. Nemo will try to avoid using characters
not present in the current code page.
[42] Keyboard buffer is emptied after message boxes are displayed
and before getting user input.
[46] Hard-error daemon popups have been disabled.
[62] Nemo works in windows as small as 6 lines. Some functions won't
be available however. The impossibility to perform a certain
function is signalled by a beep.
HELP SCREENS
[12] Main help screen is scrollable and adjusts itself to screen size.
In 0.1, it was cut.
EXTENSION FILE
[34] In nemo.ext, !* can be used to insert the list of all tagged
files into a command. The list is limited to about 300 chars.
COMMAND LINE
[4] keypad5, ^keypad5 and ^Tab don't block Nemo.
[36] When pressing Shift-Enter instead of Enter, the prefix defined in
F9/O/X is inserted before executed command line.
[47] History admits up to 40 back commands, and its panel is
scrollable if needed.
[49] Hysteresis shift is 16 instead of 15.
[55] "CD." is interpreted locally, just "like CD.." and "CD\"
[56] ^W deletes previous word instead of previous character.
[60] Alt-Enter inserts the current directory name, followed
by a backslash.
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