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Welcome to Edith Professional for X11

Welcome to Edith Professional for X11

Thank you for using Edith Pro. We hope you will like using the program. Please note that any information on your personal experiences with Edith Pro will be highly appreciated, and may often lead to an improvement in a matter of weeks! Do not forget to order a licence and manual if you like the program after a two month evaluation period, so further development is guaranteed.

the author (Annius Groenink).

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WHAT'S NEW IN THIS VERSION OF EDITH PRO

V1.53 (April 1998)
Improvements to the supplied LaTeX and C/C++ highlighting styles. Support for Windows95 long file names on floppy disks. Manual page bug in V1.51 removed.
V1.51 (February 1998)
Text in the three predefined language modes HTML, LaTeX and C/C++ is now highlighted using font and colour effects. New languages can be defined via the language options panel; highlighting styles can be redefined in a new panel called highlighting styles.

The three predefined modes are now protected. A limited selection of default values for LaTeX, HTML and the binary editor will override your current configuration of those modes to make sure that your upgrade to version 1.50 is successful.

Bracket checking has been modified to take advantage of the language definition used for highlighting. True tabs can now be placed at arbitrary columns just like the editable tab stops. Some minor modifications have been made to the client-server system. The syntax of the expressions in the search panel has been extended.

Large parts of the editor core have been revised, resulting in a more stable and above all, much faster system, especially at operations on multiple selections, such as search and replace all. Progress is reported on operations that take longer than a few seconds; you can now also interrupt those with the Escape key.

The File options panel now specifies a set of file names which are automatically opened through rcp when the Edith client and server are running on different host machines.

V1.40 (October 1997)
Multi-key sequences and dead keys are now recognized for the ISO-8859 Latin 1 character set. The text display panel has a new switch: show line numbers displays the line numbers in half-shade at the end of displayed lines. Various bug fixes since V1.37: floppy interface did not recognize lower case letters; colour stippling on black and white displays was problematic; line number display and search panel bugs; default path set incorrectly from the browser window.
V1.37 (April 1997)
Bugs: carbon copy permissions and abort; back-indent. AWK commands for center, C-comment in; create source tag on untitled file. Bookmarks. Some INFO browser formatting problems solved; INFOPATH recognized. Closing the console window while a command was running could cause a crash. Multi-mode commands had small problems.

A problem (subwindow mode) that caused text scrolling on SGI displays to be slow has been circumvented, increasing scrolling performance significantly.

The size of the external command menus has been increased to 30.

Menu selection with the keyboard and by single mouse click has been improved. Garbage in menu shadows fixed.

V1.35 (March 1997)

External commands can now be defined separately for each editor mode; the default setup has been extended with numerous commands for LaTeX and C/C++.

Selection aligns to word boundaries if started with a double click, then extended with + drag.

Colour allocation on 8 bit (PseudoColor) displays improved: by default Edith now allocates entries in the default map as well as in a private colour map to minimize colour flashing while minimizing the risk of failure to allocate colours (black and white stippling is over). On screens supporting multiple colour maps (Silicon Graphics), no colours are allocated in the default colour map.

Shortcut expansions can be up to 1024 characters. Auto switch mode on Save as from e.g. file.txt to file.tex. The ASCII panel has a scroll bar for large font sets.

Bugs fixed: trash can overflow, toupper/tolower on one character, delete/backspace line recorded in dribbles, problems with termination of external commands, private definitions for editor switches/language confused.

Experiments have been done with Macintosh-style `select-and-type-to-delete', but lead to unpridictable behaviour. This has been postponed.

V1.33P (December 1996)
External commands with output into a text window now run in the background (unless they require input from a text selection). Gopher URLs are recognized. Text shortcuts can now contain a ? that will cause Edith to prompt for a parameter that is substituted. The scope of Repeat dribble (Edit menu, Ctrl R) has been extended to multi-fragment selections: when there is a selection consisting of more than 1 fragment, the dribble will be applied to each line or part of a line in the selection. The record indicator has been changed to a button, so dribble recording can be manually controlled when necessary.

Edith has been purified; memory leaks have been solved.

V1.32ß (October 1996)
Text selection using the keyboard is now performed using the Shift key, resembling as much as possible the Macintosh style of selection. Shift + mouse is also used to change the end points of selected fragments. To select multiple fragments, use Caps Lock. Text home/end now is now Ctrl Begin/End.

An important bug in the undo code (repetitive undo line editing) has been fixed; also, lines changed by ordinary typing will be copied into the trash buffer.

Filters and executables are now fully operational, and can be given an entry in the Edith menu; but external commands (such as make) with output into a window, and HTML loading are not yet done in the background. A large set of convenient external commands have been defined in the default configuration (see the Edith menu).

The line editing buffer is now called a dribble; three of these dribbles, i.e. small macros, can be stored and assigned a key combination.

Locations and binaries can now be opened from the command line. The -w (formerly -wait) command line option has been improved; it now only communicates with an Edith server with the same X-resource name. A shell script edivisual is now provided that allows using Edith as a default editor for e.g. a mailer program; it automatically reverts to vi if the DISPLAY variable is not set or a display can otherwise not be opened. A similar program edimore can be used as a substitute for a pager program. The advantages for using Edith as a pager are numerous; e.g. in a mailer program you can select a URL in a mail message and open it just by pressing Control L.

All keyboard combinations that were previously with Ctrl or Alt and a punctuation character, are now available as a combination of a letter plus Ctrl, Shift and/or Alt.

Edit source... (Browse menu, Ctrl E) works on remote files. Bookmarks in file selector and web browser. Button bar. Personal info page maintenance interface simplified. Browser formatting much improved. Warning on exit when options have changed. Added an indent to column command.


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