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- Edith Manual Editor Options 4th September 1994
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- The EDITOR BEHAVIOUR of the Editress can be set to
- match a great variety of existing programs.
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- Select AUTO INDENT when you are writing program source.
- Edith will then automatically insert space at the
- beginning of a line according to the indentation of the
- previous line.
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- Select AUTO WRAP when you are editing plain text. AUTO
- WRAP can be quickly switched on and off by selecting
- F5. When this option is active, words are
- automatically moved to the next line when they exceed
- the right margin.
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- A number of characters can be designated as
- INDENTATION. Indentation normally includes blanks and
- tabs, but up to 8 other characters can be specified in
- this dialog.
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- Select FORMAT ALIGNS if you want the text format
- operation (TEXT menu, ⇧^F or F4) to align paragraphs to
- the right margin by adding extra blanks between words.
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- Select USE EDIT BELL if you wish to hear the bell sound
- when an action is performed that does not always have a
- visible effect (such as Copy, or Push Position).
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- Select SHOW MATCHING BRACKETS if you are used to the
- UNIX editor VI. When this switch is on, the cursor
- will quickly blink at the corresponding opening bracket
- when you type ), ] or }.
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- Select DISPLAY TRUE TABS AS CLOCKS when you're used to
- the TEMPUS editor.
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- Select EDITOR tabs when you want the TAB key to insert
- spaces into the text. Select TRUE tabs when you want
- tab characters (ASCII 9) instead. NOTE that the tab
- stops for true tabs and editor tabs are set separately;
- edit tabs can be set by clicking on the TEXT RULER,
- while the true tab distance is set in the RULER DIALOG.
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- Select MOVE OLD BUFFERS TO TRASH FILE, when you want
- optimum editing safety. Old vital data that threatens
- to get lost will then automatically be save in the
- TRASH CAN FILE. Whenever you wish to recover old data,
- you can copy it back from the TRASH CAN, which can be
- opened from the CLIPBOARD DIALOG, or by selecting OPEN
- TRASH CAN from the OPTIONS menu (^T).
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- The cursor blink rate can be set to any amount of
- milliseconds. An amount of 0 milliseconds will result
- in a steady cursor.
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- Edith Manual Editor Options 4th September 1994
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