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- Edith Manual File Options 19th May 1994
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- The following FILE OPTIONS can be specified in this
- dialog:
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- The TYPE of NEWLINES when a file is saved can be set to
- match any of the following three standards:
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- MS-DOS (carriage return, line feed)
- UNIX (line feed)
- Macintosh (carriage return)
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- BACKUPs can be written before saving a file. The
- backup file either has the same name as the original
- file, with the extension '.BAK', or is saved in a
- folder BACKUP by its original name.
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- CARBON COPIES of a file can be saved at regular
- intervals, set in minutes, and can be saved when you
- choose to abandon the contents of a window when you
- close it. Carbon copies are a safety measure. When
- for some reason your computer system has crashed while
- you were editing important text, and a carbon copy of
- that text has been written recently, and the text is
- opened again, EDITH will automatically offer to use the
- carbon copy instead of the original file. Also, when
- you decided to abandon a text and later found the
- changes valuable anyway, the carbon copy can provide a
- solution.
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- The TIME the LID of the TRASH CAN takes to close can be
- set in seconds. When the automatic trash can system is
- switched on (in the EDITOR OPTIONS dialog), old text
- blocks are automatically saved to the trash can. While
- the lid is open, moving data to the trash can takes
- less time than when it is closed. The difference is
- especially noticeable when quickly deleting lines by
- repeatedly pressing F8 or ⇧^Y.
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- The INTERVAL at which the CLIPBOARD is sensed can be
- set in 10ths of a second.
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- ** When the clipboard is only sensed once every 5
- seconds, the delay before Edith notices an
- external change can be irritating. It is good to
- know that even while the menu item PASTE is still
- greyed out, the keyboard shortcut ^V will force
- Edith to read the clipboard immediately.
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- Edith Manual File Options 19th May 1994
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