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- Welcome to FetchRefs 1.2!
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-
- This file describes changes since version 1.1.
-
- First off, thanks to those who have sent me greetings, suggestions,
- comments, and ARexx scripts. I really appreciate it. I hope you all still
- like FetchRefs and that you will like this new version even more. A
- special 'thank you' to Kasper B. Graversen for all his comments and his
- testing.
-
- I know it has been a long time since I released version 1.1 but I have
- been quite satisfied with FetchRefs as it was. However, some time ago I
- digged the source out and slowly started to implement the few ideas and
- suggestions I had. As I did this, more ideas came to mind and I
- implemented them as well. I must say that I am very pleased with the
- result. Though FetchRefs is not much more powerful than before, a few
- optimizations and small new features make FetchRefs faster and much nicer
- to use.
-
- I have no reliable UseNet or FidoNet address at this time. As a
- consequence, I have had no real beta testers on this version. Hopefully it
- is stable enough anyway. See the 'Author' section of the file
- 'FetchRefs_General.guide' for ways to contact me (including a friend's net
- addresses).
-
- Many things have changed since version 1.1 but here is a list of the more
- important changes in the FetchRefs package:
-
- · Manual cleaned up a bit and split in three parts: General, FetchRefs,
- and GenerateIndex. Hopefully this will make more people read it ;-).
-
- · Improved speed and less fragmenting due to the use of memory pools.
-
- · On-line help. This requires you to have 'FetchRefs_FR.guide' and
- 'FetchRefs_GI.guide' in a drawer that is in your 'AmigaGuide/path'
- environment variable. Then simply press the 'Help' key with the mouse
- pointer over whatever you want help for. This will open the guide at
- the most appropiate place.
-
- · Scripts for Edge (by Jon Rocatis), FrexxEd (by Mogens Isager), and
- EMACS (by David Luebbren) included. Thanks to the authors for
- supplying them! The other scripts have been changed/improved a bit so
- be sure to install a new version.
-
- · Scripts for AmokEd and DME removed. I consider these editors out of
- date.
-
- FetchRefs
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- · The "Select reference" window has a string gadget to edit the search
- pattern. The listview is updated when you press Enter in this gadget.
-
- · The "Select reference" window will open if the cursor is on a space
- character when you call the ARexx script. Combined with the above
- mentioned feature you can enter a search pattern without messing up
- your source code if you want to fetch something that is not currently
- in your view. Some had implemented this in ARexx scripts.
-
- · The "Select reference" window has a new gadget, 'List file' which will
- list all references in the file of the selected reference.
-
- · The RUNONCE argument is removed and this feature is now always active.
-
- GenerateIndex
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- · Scanner system optimized (I have e.g. measured six times faster
- scanning of AutoDocs!). Assembler scanner was fixed during this rewrite
- as it apparently was quite unreliable, though nobody reported this.
-
- · C scanner ignores comments.
-
- · The contents of listviews are sorted alphabetically to ease searching.
-
- · New gadget, 'Rescan all'. This will simply scan all the already scanned
- files again, but with the options that are set when 'Rescan all' is
- pressed.
-
- · The old one will be deleted if you scan ('Add...' gadget has been
- renamed to 'Scan...') a file that is already in the list. Makes it much
- easier to rescan just a part of an index file.
-
- -And
-