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- FOLDED 0.9a Initial Release
-
- After you read this note, I strongly recommend that you at least scan
- through the documentation file (folded.doc) before using the editor.
- FOLDED is very easy to use, but some of the concepts may be different
- than those you are used to in 'vi' or 'emacs' style of editors.
-
- This is the first release of FOLDED and, as such, please use it with
- care (i.e. don't do 8 hours worth of typing without a single save). This
- version has survived some rigorous testing by myself and I have used it
- for a month on my BSD 4.2 system without a crash, but I am sure there will
- be some surprises no matter how much I test it out. For the 1.0 release,
- I will be going through the code and putting in extra 'crash prevention'
- routines (and more signal and out of memory traps). At that time I will
- also be adding some better code documentation.
-
- This version could use improvements in the following areas:
-
- 1) MGR support (mouse and font selection). Note, I think I have the
- current version hardcoded for high resolution Sun workstations. I
- don't have access to a Sun anymore, so can't check much out.
- 2) Better screen management. Slow terminal users are going to hate the
- way I do things. Also, I have to improve the way ctrl characters are
- handled (and in a related vein, how terminals like my Wyse 50 utilize
- reverse video...the terminal takes up a screen position just to turn
- reverse video/bold on or off.)
- 3) Alternate way of handling Tabs. Currently, files are detabified on
- input and optionally retabified on output. Works great unless you
- are editing a shar'ed Makefile which has X's at the beginning of
- each line :-(.
- 4) Keybinding routine...I just haven't made up my mind as to the best
- way to allow keybindings. I may put that off until the version that
- allows mode toggling (i.e. vi-like dual mode to emacs like single mode).
- 5) Edit buffer<->shell toggling. I need to learn more about pty's or pipes
- before I try this.
- 6) Macro capability...maybe external program usage as well as multi-key
- training.
- 7) Some sort of easy to use regular expression parsing on searches and
- replaces. Any suggestions?
-
- I am sure there are other things...let me know if you have any suggestions.
-
- COMPILING:
-
- To compile folded, change the Makefile and config.h to reflect your system.
- By default, things will compile to BSD 4.2/4.3. Check out the comments in
- the Makefile and config.h for more info.
-
- -Todd Burkey
- trb@stag.UUCP
-