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- Uedit V2.0 News
- Copyright (C) 1986-87, Rick Stiles
- 2420 Summit Springs Drive
- Dunwoody, GA 30350
- 3/27/87
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- Uedit20.arc contains Uedit V2.0, the latest version of Uedit.
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- When you become a registered user, you will receive the Manual, a Serial #,
- and a $5 bonus for each person who registers using your copy of Uedit!
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- When you register, send in the Serial # of the Uedit you are using. To see
- the Serial #, select "Show vals" in the "Numbers" menu.
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- To register and receive the Manual and a Serial #, send $25 cash, check or
- money order.
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- If you own an earlier (pre-V1.7) version of Uedit, send $15 and your original
- purchased Uedit disk.
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- If you've already registered, you will be sent a Manual update and Serial #.
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- To save the trouble of downloading Uedit20.arc, you can get a Uedit V2.0 disk
- by sending $6.
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- Uedit V2.0 has the following new features:
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- Interlace mode or window in Workbench, instantly switchable. Either one
- can be your standard mode, stored in the Data file.
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- Interlace color (RGB) fine-tuning. The three RGB color values are shown in
- the gadget names and moving the mouse anywhere on the screen adjusts
- red, green and blue. To change registers, click anywhere beneath the
- 4th gadget. To terminate color-tuning mode, press ESC. The colors
- are stored when the configuration is saved.
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- More menus and increased number of menu items. There are 2 more menus,
- which can have up to 20 items each, allowing a total of 140 menu
- selections.
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- Checked menu items for flags such as wordwrap. For example, if wordwrap,
- learn mode, overstrike, etc is On, a checkmark appears beside it in
- the menu.
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- Columnar data clear/copy/insert/overlay. Rectangular regions of text can
- be copied, spaced out, deleted, overlaid onto other text, or inserted
- at any location pushing other text aside.
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- NOTE: The Start column of hilite must be Less Than the End column in
- order for there even to be a columnar region! This may require
- inserting spaces in order to space your way out to the desired Start
- or End location. Experiment with it, and you'll understand. Try the
- demo (shftAltCtl-d), and you'll see the kind of thing you can do.
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- Columnar displaying mode. This affects display only. It is useful for
- columnar data operations. It shows colored regions as rectangles
- determined by Start/End column of hilite and invert.
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- Negative numbers in arithmetic. Numbers like -999 and (999) are taken as
- minus. The arithmetic commands were modified to work with negative
- numbers.
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- Startup compile can be aborted by pressing Amiga-ESC, so that you can edit
- the config file or drop out and use another config.
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- Commands are compiled starting at cursor, not top of file like before.
- This makes it easy to step-wise customize and debug commands in the
- config file. No need to cut and paste into a separate buffer like
- before.
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- Gadgets can be Named with nameGadget() function. The config file has a
- place for default gadget names.
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- A "Name gadget" menu selection. You can rename the gadgets while editing.
- If "Mark gadgets" is switched off, the gadget names disappear. If
- "row column" is switched on, page, row and column take the place of
- the 4th gadget name. If the first gadget name is input as one space,
- all gadget names are disabled.
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- An Abort function was added to the command language. This allows nested
- commands (keys run by other keys) to abort the process whether or not
- the calling command checks for a true/false return.
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- The Tiny Window remembers where you last put it. (To get the Tiny Window
- in Interlace, press the left mouse button anywhere in the window,
- slide the mouse into the title bar, and release the button.)
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- Learn Mode capacity was doubled.
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- The command language supports upper/lower case throughout.
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- Maximum command size was increased to 10k bytes.
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- Other improvements were made in the program and in the config.
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- If you have a customized V1.8 config, you can compile it by including the
- gadget <name> defaults at the front of the Config! file. (They can be empty
- "<>".) But you will probably want to take advantage of the new menus,
- checked-menu items, interlace, columnar data commands, ....
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- R.S.
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