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--- WPEdit version 0.6 ---
--- Copyright 1991 ---
--- Robert Epps ---
WPEdit is a programmer's text editor for Windows. It's not as full-featured
as Brief or QEdit, but it is quite easy to use (at least I think so!) and it
has some nice features for programmers.
To install it, copy the files WPEDIT.EXE and WPEDIT.HLP to a directory on your
hard disk, then use New Program Item in the Files menu of the Program Manager
to install WPEdit in one of your program group windows.
When you start it, you will be staring at a "clean slate". The editor works
pretty much like other Windows editors, so if you have used any of them, you
should be able to get up to speed with WPEdit pretty quickly. The online
help will give you info on the various keyboard and menu commands.
Version 0.6 is the second version that I have made available to the public;
the first was 0.5, uploaded several months ago. I apologize for taking so
long to come out with 0.6, but until recently I have not had my own computer
at home, and I've had little free time at work to "goof off". Now that I
have a computer at home I (hopefully) can start cranking on this thing!
Anyway, this version has numerous bug fixes and enhancements. There were
several instances where filenames were stored internally as partial instead of
full pathnames, causing problems such as the occasional inability to bring up
the help file. The dialog boxes for file open/save in version 0.5 were a bit
screwy; they have been fixed. I have received lots of mail with new feature
requests; I have not implemented that many of them yet, but you may like what
I have added (like the font selection ability). I plan to keep on adding new
features and bringing out new releases as warranted.
Many people have complained about the slowness of the file loading. To fix
this I will have to rewrite the "Text Engine" (the WPEdit module that stores
and manipulates the text in memory). I plan to do this eventually anyway so
that it will use memory more efficiently, so hopefully the editor will be much
faster in a near-future release.
Important: This is still an "alpha test" version of WPEdit. Although I have
been using it for my own programming projects (including WPEdit itself) and it
does not appear to have any serious data-clobbering bugs, it is NOT DONE!!
*** Features that I am working on:
* New, improved, faster Text Engine.
* Journal/Undo.
* Script capability. Among other things, this will greatly enhance the
program's configurability, and allow you to remap the keyboard to your
liking (i.e. Wordstar key sequences).
* Wildcards in search/replace.
* Status window showing cursor position and currently enabled modes. (It's
actually already coded, but it's so buggy that it is disabled for now.)
* Horizontal scrollbar (I really don't want to do this, and will probably
drag my feet as long as possible.)
* Selectable colors for the various windows.
* More options controlling text-highlighting behavior of the mouse, etc.
* Whatever you suggest that is within the realm of my programming abilities!
*** Limitations and quirks that I am aware of:
* WPEdit can handle a maximum of 65535 lines. (Guess what data type a line
number is!) The new Text Engine will probably increase this to 2^32 - 1
lines.
* Lines are limited to 1024 characters in length. Right now, if you try to
do something to exceed that, like concatenate two lines that together are
longer than 1024 characters, the excess is simply chopped off.
* The total file size is limited to 2 Mbytes or the amount of available
memory, whichever is less. But you don't want to load something TOO big,
because...
* File loading is somewhat slow. On the 33 MHz 386 system that I use, it
takes about 4 seconds to load a 150K text file. This is due to the com-
plexity of the data structures that I have to create, and of the heap
allocation scheme I use. The new Text Engine will speed things up.
* Cutting, copying, and pasting are limited to 64K of text per operation.
* When text is deleted, tags contained within don't go away.
* Tags and the endpoints of the block mark move properly when whole lines are
deleted or moved, but not when pieces of lines containing tags or mark
endpoints are deleted/moved. Still working on this.
* The Find Balancing Paranthesis function is not aware of comments and quoted
strings, so it will count parantheses inside them during its search. I've
not found this to be a problem so far.
I am hoping to someday sell WPEdit as shareware. It continues to beg for
improvements. I basically want to know how you like WPEdit, how it can be
improved, and most important, whether or not you think it shows any promise of
being a good editor!!
You can write to me on GEnie (R.EPPS), CompuServe (72560,3353), BIX (repps),
Prodigy (GPKT94A), America Online (RobertE49), Exec-BBS, or at this address:
Robert Epps
208 Preble Drive #E
Tustin, CA 92680-3743