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┌─────────┐ ┌─────┴───┐ │ (R) ──│ │o │────────────────── │ ┌─────┴╨──┐ │ Association of │ │ │─┘ Shareware └───│ o │ Professionals ──────│ ║ │──────────────────── └────╨────┘ MEMBER pE - The "perfect" Editor(tm) Copyright (c) 1990-1992 by Just Excellent Software, Inc. All rights reserved. These notes are addendum to the printed pE manual. They will update the manual at the next printing. Release 3.01 - December 25, 1992 ------------ 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). The number of files and directories in the current chooser window is displayed in the lower right portion of the chooser border. (The symbol \.. is excluded from the count). This release fixes a replace bug which occurs when the object of the replace is off the right end of the screen and the user has selected a "one-at-a-time" mode of replacing string_1 with string_2. Also repaired are several out of memory situtions which had the potential to create problems if editing was continued. pE now tests a command line filename spec to see if its a sub-directory. If it is, pE appends *.* and calls the file chooser to allow you to select a file from that sub-directory. 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? Fixed a regular expression bug. Thank you Lee Williams! Fixed a sharing bug, which caused a nasty message if two copies of pE were opened simultaneously in Windows. Added a "Start Up" command. StartUp is a macro always executed when pE starts up. It will only be executed if no file specification is provided on the command line. It will only be executed if it is assigned to a macro, and that macro is saved in env.ped. It may only be assigned to a single key stroke (no multiple key assignments). example: - on start up you would like pe to start having two windows, with the active one being the first created. start pe .... pe enter ^F1 (record macro) enter @W {OpenWindow} enter F2 {NextWindow} enter ^F1 (end recording) press @F10 - (thats the key I have assigned to StartUp) press Enter Now you can try the macro by pressing @F10. If it works the way you want (it should if you're in window one) then you need to save your environment (^F2). When you save env.ped with ^F2, you are prompted with "local or master" environment. Pressing l(ocal) means that this (these) macro will be present only in the env.ped file in the current directory, while pressing m(aster) means that anywhere you start pe that does NOT have a env.ped file will activate the start up macro. I welcome any feedback regarding the usefulness of this feature. By the way, to disable a start up macro, Unassign it with ^- (unassign macro). Don't forget to resave env.ped. Added SAVE as a menu option. Menu now displays the current key assignment in status line, as opposed to always displaying the original assignment alongside the menu item. Added support for different date and time formats according to where COUNTRY is pointing to in config.sys. Changed format of ^d_d (date) to display "August 15, 1992" when country is US. See your DOS manual under COUNTRY for more explanation. Added line numbers as an option in the print menu. By turning to "on" you can print line numbers on your listings without affecting your file. Of course you can position to any line number with F9 (GOTO). Fixed a bug that prevented two copies of pE from being opened in Windows 3.1 (without a <very> ugly message. Release 2.86 - May 3, 1992 ------------ I have decided to eliminate the calculator from the pE executable and to go back to the un-overlayed version of pE. Many of you have written to tell me the reason you liked pE to start with was its size and quickness. Well, its back to its svelte size and its as fast as ever. The calculator is a separate executable and is shelled to when invoked. You need about 60k of free memory to be able to shell to it. Fixed a bug which left a funny looking window on the screen. It didn't do any harm, but it sure looked funny. Happened or not depending on what tsr's you had loaded and whether you asked for a new filespec from the chooser. Changed the drag feature to make it easier to drag stuff around. Just click the left button in the marked area and hold it after you mark a column block. As you move the mouse, the block will move. I'd love some feedback. Do you like it more, or less. I'll guess I'll know from the number of you who register, Huh? Little known command line switch. /vn where n is a number. The default for n is 20. /v varies the mouse scroll delay. If you want a faster scroll rate when you scroll using the mouse then reduce this number (all the way to 0, if you want). If you want the scroll rate slower, increase it beyond 20. The number, n, corresponds to the milliseconds of delay between mouse interrupts being accepted. This feature has been present since very early releases, but was never documented very well. The chooser now displays the file specification in the lower left corner of the screen. A specific chooser help file has been added when F1 is pressed. The mouse may be used to click on the bottom line (in the chooser) with varying results (depending where you click). Release 2.85 - February 21, 1992 ------------ When the last window is closed, you are prompted if you wish to exit the editor. If you answer no, the file chooser is now automatically called. There now exists a delay function capable of pausing a macro for a specified number of milliseconds (up to 999). It executes only from within a macro. Key assignment is @/. To use it, embed the command in a macro and immediately follow with a 3 digit number (right justified) specifying the number of milliseconds to delay before executing the next keystroke. This command (named Delay) is useful for automating scripts. ToggleMacro now works correctly when issued in the getline routine. Windows will cascade with @c, tile with @t. F1 key now accesses commands. @y is reassigned to DefineTag. Significant memory allocation changes. When pE runs out of memory, it releases its help buffers. This frees up enough memory to finish most editing commands. Obviously, you won't be able to use the F1 command under these circumstances, but everything else will work. You should try to close a window or write a file out to free memory. If you continue to edit and pE tries again to get more memory, it will tell you when there is insufficient room. At that point, you should write your file(s) out. Incorporated calculator into pE executable. Overlayed a number of functions resulting in more memory available even with the calculator! Added RegularExp toggle. Instead of pressing shift alt F or R to toggle regular expressions on and off, just press @F5. Of course you can assign it to whatever key you wish. Release 2.84 - January 27, 1992 ------------ Hanging Indents (or outdents) now work correctly in word processing mode. A hanging indent looks like this: 1. This is an example of an outdent or hanging indent, it is arrived at by setting the indent to a negative number. For best results use word mode tab stops (ie increments of 5. This paragraph has an indent of -5. The chooser was modified a little bit to dynamically pick the number of ranks as a function of how many files are in the directory specified by filespec. There is a command line switch (/r) which controls the number or 'ranks' or columns of filenames that appear in the file chooser. Prior to this the default was always 3. The problem was that if you're in a directory with lots of files, most are hidden from you until you scroll. Now pE will maximize how many files it displays. If you don't like this for some reason, then set /r to the number of ranks (columns) you wish to see. You may do this by SET ped=c:\pe /r3 in your autoexec.bat. Of course you may set most of pE's command line switches in this way. Release 2.83 - January 4, 1992 ------------ Happy New Year! Two new commands - FillBlock (^kf) and LastAscii (`). FillBlock will do just that. A currently marked block is filled with a character you specify. Fill Block uses as a default fill character 'LastAscii' (see below). When the prompt 'Fill Character[ ]:' appears, type any ascii character. Characters having values > 127 can be entered using Alt + the numeric keypad. Alternatively, a legitimate response to the prompt is ^v_a (or @f1) which opens the ASCII chart. Positioning the cursor on the character of choice and pressing ENTER than uses that character as the fill character. Note: Line blocks will fill out to whatever the current line max may be (default is 511, max is 1023). Stream blocks replace characters in the stream with the fill character (not past the end of the line). Column blocks work as you would expect. If you fill a block with the wrong character, you can undo with @0 (alt 0). LastAscii - When the Ascii Chart is invoked, the character under the cursor when the chart is closed is assigned to LastAscii. This allows you to key the special character repeatedly without having to define a macro or key ALT number, number, number. If the Ascii Chart is never called then the value of Last Ascii is itself. Of course it can also be assigned to itself. LastAscii is assigned to the tilde (`). Note: The ascii value 0 (null) is not assigned to LastAscii as it causes a filled line to be truncated from the first character in which it is inserted. Instead, a space character is substituted. It is the author's opinion that the result will be what you really meant more often than not. (Of course, the author has been proven wrong from time to time). The Ascii Chart was changed a little bit to look better. Hitting ENTER, NEXT_WINDOW (F2) or ESC when the Ascii Chart is active will close it. AsciiChart has been assigned to @f1 in addition to ^v_a. Replace string in block replaced all but the last column of a column block when all was selected. Fixed. Release 2.82 - December 28, 1991 ------------ Tab increment can be set to 0, signifying do NOT expand tabs on input. Five bugs exterminated. - Under certain circumstances pE would 'forget' you changed the contents of a window. A subsequent @x (exit) or @q would then NOT save the changes. I'm very happy to report that its fixed - Thanks, Jacque Eisenberg. - On systems that used COMMAND.COM as a shell (probably most of you) the cursor disappeared on shelling to DOS. Mouse cursor would also disappear if a mouse sensitive program was executed while 'shelled' out. Fixed! - Pasting a stream block into the last line of a file did not work correctly. Does now. - Doing a double space (^kn) at the end of a file caused video writes to cease. Now it correctly ignores the command. - Pressing shift 7 while in graphics mode now correctly produces ▌▌▌▌▌▌. pE now works correctly on NOVELL networks. You must set SHOW DOTS=ON in your shell.cfg file. Prior releases of pE worked correctly except for the file chooser. The problem has been corrected. Changed grey* so that line(s) must be marked before it will do a copy to scrap. This allows you to use the grey * as an asterisk, except when you have a marked block (in which case you probably don't need to press an asterisk. Of course, the asterisk above the eight is an asterisk all the time. Made the @cursor keys (the grey ones on a 102 key keypad) scroll up, down, left and right. This works like the shift cursor keys did before I added stream blocking. Added the ability to define cursor size. The function can be accessed either from the 'options' menu or through the command menu. Heres how it works: On color monitors the cursor occupies a 8 scan line cell. The 'normal' cursor is defined as line 6 and 7, counting 0 from the top and 7 as the bottom. So a cursor defined as 6,7 means the bottom two scan lines will be the cursor. On a monochrome monitor (and adapter) the character cell is 14 scan lines and the 'normal' cursor is defined as 12,13. pE now allows you to set the cursor to any size you choose and when you save options, the cursor size is saved. Be careful to make starting scan line smaller than ending scan line. You will probably 'lose' the hardware cursor entirely. Release 2.81 - November 26, 1991 ------------ Turning Borders off now frees the top line as well. Top of Page and Bottom of Page leave the cursor in the current column (instead of moving it to column one). Bug that turned stream blocks on when wordwrap occurred while shifting, fixed. Release 2.80 - November 14, 1991 ------------ A new program, offered to registered users only, is described in "ORDER.FRM". To read about it, place the cursor on this line and press Alt I. - Go ahead, try it! F2 will get you back. Two new commands. Copy to Scrap and Append to Scrap allow you to copy or append marked lines to the 'scrap'. The default assignment is grey* and ^grey*, respectively. You may also continue to copy marked lines to another location in the current file (or any other file in any window) without affecting the 'scrap' by simply moving the cursor to where you would like the copy to occur and pressing 'paste' (grey+). Neither copy to scrap or append to scrap is destructive in any way. NOTE that the previous content of the scrap is REPLACED with copy and ADDED to with append. The shift arrows now extend a block. They used to scroll. Use Scroll Lock to 'lock' the screen to scroll. Shift key + a cursor key, when a block is not already defined, will begin marking a stream block. If a block is already defined, then it will extend the mark according to the block type defined. To end marking a block, you must either execute a block command (like cut, align, boxdraw, etc), or type any block mark command (ALT_L (lines), ALT_B (rectangular block) or ^K_k for stream block. Note that if you mark using a stream mark in column one, you get the same effect as a line mark, in that each preceding line is entirely marked. Once the extend has begun, you no longer need to hold down the shift key.