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E! for Windows - Complementary documentation
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You'll find here the documentation for last minute changes and for
features that have been added since your manual was printed.
Reading this file and CHANGES.TXT will also give you a good
overwiew of what's new in E! for Windows.

Version 1.1

02/06/93 - Added Control Area in the Edit Windows
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Lines of text are no more displayed close to the left Edit Window
border. Moreover, the small area between the first column of the
displayed text and the left internal window border is now called the
Control Area.

Some interesting new functions can be triggered with the mouse from
this Control Area:

Clicking with the left mouse button in the Control Area will select
the corresponding line in the text area.

Clicking with the same button and dragging with the mouse will
select multiple lines of text exactly as this would happen with the
Alt + up/down arrow keystroke or by dragging the mouse with the Alt
and Shift keys depressed.

Double-clicking with the left mouse button in the Control Area will
duplicate the corresponding line of text.

If you have selected one or more lines of text in LINE or BLOCK mode,
you can shift the whole block of lines to the right by clicking
with the right mouse button anywhere in the Control Area. Maintain
the mouse button depressed to accelerate shifting. If you have made
a BLOCK mode selection, right shifting will begin at the block left
margin. In that case, left shifting will destroy data existing on
the left of the shifted block. The marked block will be destroyed if
you shift left past the first column. If necessary, use the Undo
function to retrieve the lost data.

Shifting text to the left is the same process as right shifting,
except that you have to depress the Ctrl button before clicking on
the right mouse button.

All these functions move the cursor to the beginning of the
processed line. Of course, the Undo function will restore any change
made using these functions.

02/14/93 - Added Jump on Home/End option
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The default behavior of E! is to jump to the next line when the user
hits the END key while the cursor is already located at the end of
the line. Likewise, the cursor is moved to the beginning of the
previous line when the HOME key is pressed while the cursor is
already located at the beginning of the line. This behavior can now
be disabled by unchecking the "Jump on Home/End" option in the Edit
Options dialog box of the Control Center.


02/14/93 - Font Selection dialog boxes changed
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Internal processing of fonts has been enhanced. Consequently,
there's a small change in the Font Selection dialog boxes. You may
now specify a font size for all fonts (not only the True Type
fonts).

Also, instead of displaying all fonts in the listbox and using one
line per available font size, each font appears only once in the
listbox. Predefined sizes now appear in the "Font Size" combo box.


02/19/93 - Caret thickness control
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On some hardware configurations, the caret (keyboard cursor) may
appear too thin and difficult to see. To increase the thickness of
the caret, just add a thickness=n entry to the [showopt] section of
ew.ini, n being the new thickness in pixels.


02/23/93 - Set Default Size command (Windows Menu)
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The default size computed by E! for the Edit Windows may not be
well suited for your system configuration. You can now change this
default size by either editing EW.INI (see the EW.INI section in
EW.WRI) or by merely selecting the Set Default Size command from the
Windows menu while the window has the appropriate size. This default
size will apply to any new editor created by E! unless the file has
been recently edited. In that case, the recorded size for that file
will prevail.

02/27/93 - Added CompKeywords entry in EW.INI
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compkeywords=

When compiling, depending on the length of the project file list and on
the position of the files in error in that list, scanning the compiler
output may last more time than you may want to accept. The reason for
that is explained in the Compiler Support section. To shorten the time
needed to scan the compiler output file, you may specify that an output
line must contain a certain keyword to be considered as an error message
(typical keywords would be 'error' or 'warning'). Specify these keywords
here. Please read more detailed explanations in the Compiler Support
section.

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Version 1.2

There are numerous changes in this version but they are all
self-explanatory. The only function requiring some explanations is the new
Drag and Drop server capability of the Control Center.

04/24/93 - "Files" listbox in the Control Center is a Drag and Drop server
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Until now EW was only able to accept filenames dropped from other
applications (mainly the File Manager or a replacement program).

Now, EW is itself a Drag and Drop server. That is, you can select a filename
from the "Files" listbox of the Control Center and drop it onto another
application's window or icon. Of course, the result of this operation
depends on the target application but it will be the same as if you had
dropped the files from the File Manager.

Since the "Files" listbox already accept drag movements of the mouse to
select a file, you have to indicate to EW that you are beginning a Drag and
Drop process by depressing the Control key before beginning to drag with the
mouse.