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- What's new in V1.221P
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- - Slightly faster file handling under MiNT extended file systems
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- What's new in V1.220P
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- - A German version of the exectuable is available. Manual and help
- pages are still in English.
-
- - Problems with MultiTOS, Geneva and Speedo GDOS have been fixed.
- More details below.
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- - The number of supplied TTP filters has been increased to 6. The
- filters dialog is now much more user-friendly. Filters include
- spell checking, text information and column-based sorting. Filters
- now work correctly with Gemini 2 (but version 2 of Gemini is
- required - contact ZFC if you can't find the latest version). See
- the HELP PAGE of the filter dialog for up-to-date information.
- Filter output can now be redirected to a new text window.
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- - Edith can now work with arbitrarily long lines. The only
- limitation is now that tabs and the right margin can be no further
- than at column #256. Older versions did not complain about long
- lines, but edit operations were limited to the contents left of
- column #160.
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- - Drag&drop text blocks is now more intuitive (no more need to hold
- the Alternate key). Edith would crash if a selection was dragged
- from a text window to the Gemini 2 desktop. This has been fixed.
- Mouse form changes to a text cursor when a selection is made in
- insert mode. In insert mode the mouse is replaced by a picture of
- a LOCK when Caps Lock is active. The 'lock' has approximately the
- feeling of the arrow ('hot spot'-wise).
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- - Clicking on the BACKGROUND (i.e., a non-clickable object) inside a
- background window tops it, even when using MultiTOS or WINX.
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- - Minor changes to the appearance of the function keys, the drag and
- drop box, and the grey/green area that used to represent the end
- of a text.
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- - Enhanced visual feed-back. The copy operation makes the selection
- flash briefly. All operations in the 'Text' menu, when performed
- on an empty selection, make the default scope flash. Especially
- the effect of the 'format' operation used to surprise users when
- the cursor was not at column 0.
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- - Copy, Cut and Delete now default to one line if there is no
- present selection. So when nothing is selected, ^X/^Y and ⇧^X/⇧^Y
- are identical operations.
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- - Case insensitive Search, To Upper/To Lower Case now correctly
- recognize the upper 128 characters in the Atari set. Word
- left/right now recognize interpunction/noninterpunction symbols in
- the upper 128 characters of the Atari set.
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- - The dead keys have been fixed to work with international
- keyboards. Problems were the backquote and backslash.
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- - Changes have been made to the desktop/menu behaviour of Edith:
- standard, also under MultiTOS, is a menu bar and a desktop. If
- command line parameter -nodesk is given, there will be no desktop.
- Option -i (iconic) implies -nodesk. The command line option
- -noprev tells Edith *not* to take over the desktop background from
- the previous application. Under MiNT, Edith will never take over
- the background object (because memory protection doesn't allow
- this).
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- - Changing the system font's appearance now affects all text in
- dialog windows and menus. Problems with Speedo GDOS and bitmap
- fonts have been fixed. For vector fonts, only the 'standard point
- sizes' can now be selected. Speedo users can now happily revert to
- bitmap fonts. Until Atari have added greyscale antialiasing to
- Speedo GDOS, vector fonts will not be of much use in a text
- editor. The 12 point version of the Edith monospaced font was made
- thicker. The 15 point font was not changed. Other fixes have been
- done to the 8 and 10 point fonts.
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- - A new option has been added in the 'File Options' dialog: texts
- can now be saved 'as is' rather than with a fixed type of
- newlines. The newline type of a file (regardless of the switch in
- the File Options dialog) is now indicated in the status box of a
- text window ('d' for MS-DOS, 'u' for UNIX and 'm' for MAC). Saving
- texts 'as is' is much, much faster than converting the newlines,
- even if it turns out that nothing needs to be converted.
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- - Binary files are now checked on syntax before saving. If the
- syntax check fails, the file is not saved.
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- - Some dialogs have changed names, and some parameters moved to
- other dialog windows; the 'Keys & Mouse' dialog moved to the
- 'Options' menu. This allows for a more strict separation between
- functions valid on GEM only, and those who also apply to other
- platforms (the latter dialogs will be the same on the X-Windows
- version of Edith).
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- - The Rulers dialog did not recognize editor tabs equally spaced at
- distance 2. This has been fixed.
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- - Help can no more act as a backspace key. Such an option, users
- have argued, is not something for an application to provide. There
- is a freeware TSR which does this.
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- - A bug was fixed that caused bits of cursor to be left behind in
- background windows when switching between insert and replace mode.
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- - The key alternatives for end macro have been removed.
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- What's new in V1.206P (31st July 1994)
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- - When either of the SHIFT keys is held down while clicking on the
- opaque sliders, proportional 1:1 scrolling is engaged (the text
- moves up/down 1 line if you move the mouse one pixel up/down).
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- - EDITH.TTP now sends a VA_START message with a NULL pointer to the
- Editress. It used to construct a command line in memory which was
- only accessed after it had already been freed. Upon reading the
- NULL pointer, the Editress reads the command (project) file
- EDITRESS.CMD in the EDITH system directory, and after processing,
- discards it.
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- What's new in V1.204P (6th July 1994)
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- - Fixed bugs in the Keys & Mouse dialog (Alt P selected OK)
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- - Text formatting: Removed French spacing heuristics. No longer
- leaves spaces at end of line, but a double space after a sentence
- ending period may be contracted to one.
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- - Word wrap no longer writes spaces when wrapping a word
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- - A series of characters can be specified in the editor dialog which
- will act as indentation for Auto Indent, Escape and text
- formatting
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- - Fixed bugs in begin/end selection and invert selection
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