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- * Manual for Smooth Editor *
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- Contents:
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- Chapter 1. Introduction to Smooth Editor.
- Chapter 2. Installing Smooth Editor.
- Chapter 3. Using Smooth Editor.
- Chapter 4. Scrolling and moving.
- Chapter 5. Block functions.
- Chapter 6. Wrapping.
- Chapter 7. Menu functions.
- Chapter 8. Key functions.
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- Chapter 1. Introduction to Smooth Editor.
- -----------------------------------------
-
- Smooth Editor is an ASCI-text editor, like DOS EDIT, that uses smooth
- scrolling. Smooth scrolling is a way of moving text over the screen with a
- speed that is synchronized with the frequency at which the image is built on
- the screen. For instance with VGA video cards, the screen image is refreshed
- 70 times per second. If the image on screen is moved one pixel every 1/70th of
- a second, what we see is an absolutely fluid motion.
-
- Apart from horizontal and vertical smooth (and smoothly accelerated) scrolling
- these features are incorporated in SE:
-
- - Usage of XMS memory when available, leading to virtually unlimited file
- lengths.
- - Multiple documents open at the same time.
- - Extensive Undo and Redo functions, number of Undo and Redo levels limited
- only by 32kB buffers.
- - Symbol table for inserting other than standard characters.
- - Cut/Copy/Paste functions using XMS when available.
- - Customizable scroll speeds and color usage.
- - Word-wrap functions.
- - Fades, growing and shrinking windows.
-
- Smooth Editor is released under the Shareware concept. For more information see
- README.TXT.
-
-
-
- Chapter 2. Installing Smooth Editor.
- ------------------------------------
-
- To use Smooth Editor you need a PC with:
- - 80386 processor or higher.
- - VGA video card or higher.
-
- For editing large files you need:
- - At least 508 kB of free conventional memory.
- - Extended memory.
- - An XMS-driver (like HIMEM.SYS or QEMM).
-
- To install Smooth editor, you can copy the SE.EXE program to a directory that
- is part of the Path (that is mentioned after the PATH statement in the
- AUTOEXEC.BAT). Or, if you use DOSKEY you can include it in a DOSKEY macro, for
- instance with this instruction in the AUTOEXEC.BAT:
-
- DOSKEY SE=C:\SE\SE.EXE $*
-
- If you want to use Smooth Editor under Microsoft Windows, the SE.PIF file
- should be in the same directory. The important settings are:
- XMS-memory kB limit: -1
- Execution: Exclusive checked.
-
- If you use Smooth Editor from the command line within a DOS-box under Windows
- and you have a number of applications running, you may experience stuttering
- scrolling. To solve this you can close down the DOS-box (using the `EXIT'
- command), set the Execution: Exclusive checkbox in the DOSPRMPT.PIF and start
- a new DOS-box.
-
-
-
- Chapter 3. Using Smooth Editor.
- -------------------------------
-
- When you first start up Smooth editor, you will be asked whether you would
- like to see the demo. This demo demonstrates a number of functions. If you
- want to see this demo again later, delete the SE.INI file before you start SE.
-
- To edit an existing text file, start SE with the name of the file after SE:
-
- SE MYTEXT.TXT
-
- You can use wildcards (* and ?). SE will open all matching files.
- Of course you can also just use SE. Smooth Editor will then start up with the
- File Open window. If you want to start with a new file you can press the
- Escape key to exit this window.
-
- What you see now is an empty screen with one line of information at the
- bottom. This is the status line. On the left, it shows the file name (at
- startup this displays: `Esc: Menu F1: Help'. When the arrow right key is
- pressed this will change into the file name). Next to that the flags are
- shown, five three letter abbreviations that indicate the state of the program.
- When a flag is white it indicates that that state is on, when it is dark gray
- it means that it is off. The five flags are:
-
- - MOD : Modified, this indicates that the file has been altered since
- the last load or save.
- - INS : Insert mode. Typing is inserted at the cursor position.
- - OVR : Overwrite mode. Typing overwrites the text under the cursor.
- The Insert button switches between insert and overwrite mode.
- - CLB : Data present in Clipboard (from Cut or Copy).
- - WRP : WordWrap mode (see menu option WordWrap).
-
- On the right side of the status line four numbers are displayed:
-
- S:xx : Indicates current scroll speed in lines per frame.
- C:xxx : Current Column.
- L: xxxx/ xxxx: Current Line / Total number of lines in the current file.
-
- In Smooth Editor you can use the Escape or Alt buttons to enter the menu. In
- the menu you can use the arrow keys and the Enter key to navigate through the
- items. You can also use the character keys to move to the items with the same
- characters highlighted.
-
- Many functions in Smooth Editor can be called with more than one key. This is
- done, so that if you are used to different hotkeys, you can use SE without
- having to learn new keys.
-
- To exit SE for instance, you can use F12, Alt+F4, Ctrl+q or use the menu
- option with ALT+F,X.
-
- You can get on-line help with the F1 key.
-
- Every change tot the document can be undone with Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+U or the Undo
- menu option with Alt+E,U. By repeatedly undoing you can trace back all your
- steps. The MOD (Modified) flag is updated when you undo, so you can see when
- the file is in the original state again. After you undo changes you can redo
- them with Ctrl+R, Ctrl+Shift+Z or the Redo menu option with Alt+E,R. Undo and
- Redo are both limited to 32 kB of data.
-
-
-
- Scroll speeds and color usage are set in the SE.INI file. When SE starts up,
- it checks the directory where SE.EXE is located for SE.INI. If it is not there
- SE will look for it in the path (that is mentioned after the PATH statement in
- the AUTOEXEC.BAT). If it is still not found SE will create a new SE.INI in the
- directory where SE.EXE is located. In this file all parameters will be set to
- their default values.
-
- Other than standard characters can be inserted by typing Alt+0. A window will
- appear with all possible characters. You can choose a character by typing it's
- code or by moving the blue cursor to it.
-
-
-
- Chapter 4. Scrolling and moving.
- --------------------------------
-
- The following keys are used for scrolling and moving through the file:
- With the arrow keys, the cursor can be moved through the text. The text
- scrolls when necessary.
-
- The PageUp and PageDown keys can be used in two ways. When they are tipped
- shortly the text scrolls one page quickly with smooth acceleration and
- deceleration. When they are kept down the acceleration stops at a lower speed.
-
- When the Ctrl key is kept down, the Arrow up and down keys accelerate the text
- scrolling. In this way you can control the scrolling speed. With the Ctrl key
- kept down, the PageUp and PageDown key accelerate the text scrolling at a
- faster rate.
-
- Ctrl+arrow right and Ctrl+arrow left move the cursor to the next / previous
- word, scrolling when necessary. Ctrl+Home moves to the beginning of the text,
- Ctrl+End moves to the end.
-
- The scroll speeds can be changed by editing SE.INI. This is a menu option in
- the File menu.
-
- The long vertical scrolls can be sped up by pressing the Escape button.
-
-
-
- Chapter 5. Block functions.
- ---------------------------
-
- When the position of the cursor changes with the shift key pressed, the text
- between the old and the new cursor position will be selected. This is
- indicated by the fact that this text becomes inverted.
-
- With the menu function Cut, or the keys Ctrl+X or Shift+Delete the selected
- text will be copied to the clipboard and deleted from the text. The CLB flag
- at the bottom of the screen will turn white to indicate that there is
- information on the clipboard.
-
- With the menu function Copy, or the keys Ctrl+C or Ctrl+Insert the selection
- will only be copied to the clipboard.
-
- If the functions Cut and Copy are used when there's no selection, the whole
- current line will be cut or copied.
-
- With the menu function Paste, or the keys Ctrl+V or Shift+Insert the text on
- the clipboard will be copied to the cursor position. If there is a selection
- this text will be overwritten, otherwise it will be inserted before the cursor
- position.
-
- If the Delete key is pressed while there is a selection, the selection will be
- deleted.
-
- Ctrl + -(minus key) types a character from the previous sentence.
-
- F9 copies the current line.
- F10 cuts the current line.
- F11 pastes before the current line.
-
-
-
- Chapter 6. Wrapping.
- --------------------
-
- With the Wrap Document menu function, or with Ctrl+D, all lines in the
- document longer than 80 characters will be split in shorter lines. The lines
- will be split at spaces, so that all the words remain intact.
-
- With the Toggle WordWrap menu function, or with Ctrl+W, the WordWrap mode is
- enabled or disabled. If it is enabled the WRP flag in the status line will be
- white. With this mode, if you type in a line longer than 80 characters, it
- will be split in two lines, moving the last word to the next line.
-
-
-
- Chapter 7. Menu functions.
- --------------------------
-
- File menu ------- New -Deletes text in memory and starts with new
- file.
- ------ Open -Opens the File Open Window. Here you can
- navigate through the directories and
- choose a file you want to edit.
- ----- Save -Save current file.
- ---- Save As -Opens the File Save Window.
- --- Print -Prints current file. If there is a
- selection you will be asked whether you
- want to print the selection or the whole
- file.
- -- Edit SE.INI -Opens the file SE.INI for editing. In it
- you can change the scrolling speeds and
- the color usage.
- - Exit -Quits SE and returns to the OS (for
- instance DOS).
-
- Edit menu -------- Undo -Undoes last action.
- ------- Redo -Undoes last undo.
- ------ Cut -Cuts selection or line (see chapter @).
- ----- Copy -Copies selection or line (see chapter @).
- ---- Paste -Pastes over selection or before cursor
- position (see chapter @).
- --- Clear -Deletes selection.
- -- Symbol -Opens the symbol table window. With it you
- can insert any character.
- - Select All -Selects whole file.
-
- Wrapping menu -- Toggle WordWrap -Sets/clears WordWrap mode (See Chapter @).
- - Wrap document -Splits long lines (See Chapter @).
-
- Search --- Find -The program will ask for a search string.
- It will then search the document from the
- cursor for that string.
- -- Find Previous -Searches from the cursor upward for the
- last entered search string.
- - Find Next -Searches from the cursor downward for the
- last entered search string.
-
- Help menu -- Help -Shows three screen of useful information.
- - About -Shows some information about Smooth
- Editor.
-
-
-
- Chapter 8. Key functions.
- -------------------------
-
- Escape, Alt : Enters menu.
- F12, Alt+F4, Ctrl+q : Exit Smooth Editor.
- F1 : This on-line help.
- Alt+<Number> : Insert symbol, by number or from table.
- Ctrl+Z, Ctrl+U : Undo. Undo levels limited only by 32k buffer.
- Ctrl+Shift+Z, Ctrl+R : Redo. Redo levels limited only by 32k buffer.
-
- PageUp, PageDown : - Only tipped shortly: A quick one-page scroll.
- - Sustained : Scroll with constant speed.
- Ctrl + Up,Down : Accelerate scroll slowly.
- Ctrl + PageUp,PageDown : Accelerate scroll fast.
- (With this accelerated scrolling the cursor position
- does not change until it reaches the screen border.
- Scrolling stops when Ctrl is released.)
- Ctrl + Right,Left : Move to next/previous word.
- Ctrl + Home,End : Move to begin/end of file.
-
- Shift+ cursor movement : Selection.
- Ctrl+X, Shift+Delete : - With selection : Cut selection.
- - Without selection: Cut current line.
- Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Insert : - With selection : Copy selection.
- - Without selection: Copy current line.
- Ctrl+V, Shift+Insert : - With selection : Paste, overwriting selection.
- - Without selection: Paste before cursor position.
- Delete(with selection) : Delete selection.
- Ctrl + - (minus key) : Type from previous line.
-
- Ctrl+D : Wrap document. All lines longer than 80 characters
- will be split at spaces between words.
- Ctrl+W : Toggle WordWrap mode. When the line length exceeds 80
- in this mode, the last word will be moved to the next
- line.
-
- Other key combination are mentioned in the menu functions between square
- brackets.
-