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FreeTerm line editor 0.20 (20th July 1996)
by
Ian Jeffray of Riscy Developments.
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Hi all,
The latest release of FreeTerm misses one feature which I find
rather vital - the 'command' icon. The 'delete' in FreeTerm is also
a little clunky, so hence this little module... :)
To use this module, just double-click. The functionality hangs
off Wimp 'Filters' so shouldnt affect any other tasks than 'FreeTerm'
When a FreeTerm terminal window appears, you will see a new icon
below the window, containing a caret. This is just a standard
Wimp writeable icon, but follows the FreeTerm window around (actually
it follows whichever FreeTerm window is 'active') and anything typed
in to the icon will be sent to FreeTerm when you press 'return'.
Simple eh?
There is an 8k command history (size will be configurable soon...) so
that use of the up and down cursors when in the command icon will scroll
through previous commands as you would expect.
Note that data is only put in to the history buffer WHEN IT IS SENT TO
FREETERM - ie, when a command is executed. This is a little different
to standard 'lineditor' behaviour, and is how I want it. If anyone has
any strong reasons for this to be changed, please get in touch.
You can now close the window and command icon with Ctrl-F2 like !Zap etc.
The icon to the right of the command icon allows you to toggle use
of FreeEdit. Its useful to be able to type characters directly in to
FreeTerm sometimes, when entering passwords, or using BBS's such as
|\/|onochrome which require single kepresses. When the icon shows a
tick, and the command icon is white, keypresses are buffered, when the
icon is unticked, the command icon turns grey and all kepresses go
directly to FreeTerm as if FreeEdit wasn't loaded.
You can now drag (SMALL!) textfiles to the command icon and they will be
put in the command line. Note that if you drag the file to the FreeTerm
window, it will be loaded direct to FreeTerm as usual.
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Improvements since v0.01:
o Command history, using up and down cursors to scroll thru'
o Ctrl-F2 to close window and terminal window (like Zap :)
o Ability to turn it off (!) so that, eg, passwords can be entered but
not seen. This is also vital for BBS's such as |\/|onochrome.
o Accept data-load messages so you can drag-in textfiles etc.
Improvements expected some time:
o Send data via the PipeFS system, which should be lots faster than the
flurry of keypress messages that I use now.
o Figure out how to close editor icon when terminal window closes.
(This has been improved somewhat since v0.01 but still isnt great)
o Commmand line options/Configs for history buffer size, etc...
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There's probably some other bugs I've not found in this thing yet,
so please get in touch if you have problems. As usual, all
responsibility for this thing not working, or crashing your machine is
yours.
If you have any comments about this mail me on
ian@paradise1.compulink.co.uk (ianj@pobox.com)
Cheers
Ian. - http://pobox.com/~ianj/ian/