Hi, thanks to Bothie helping me out while there are problems
with uploading things to my page, you can now enjoy the new
EDIT 0.7d PREVIEW version :-). It is a preview version because
there are several help text things which are still to be fixed,
so if you want to support your FreeDOS developers (uhm, me :-))
please send me (or even better, upload somewhere) an improved
version of edit.txt (or a diff). Thanks a lot :-).
If you prefer programming: There is one unsolved bug to hunt down.
Grab your copy of EDIT 0.7d preview at:
http://bothie.sharedaemon.org/temp/edit07d-pre.zip
The big list of updates, bugs and wishes follows. Please comment
in particular the wish part so that I know which are most wanted.
Updates for 0.7d:
* UPCASE / DOWNCASE block functions added, which have the effect
that you expect from the name, but support no COUNTRY extras yet...
* COUNT lines words and bytes in block function added: the results
are shown in the status line until you move the cursor again.
* You can now also use ESC again to leave single line editboxes in
dialogs - to type a literal ESC, use Ctrl-P ESC there now.
* Bugfix: Moving the ASCII table is now possible by keyboard. The ASCII
table also looks a bit better now, nicer char description line.
* Stability: Some sanity checks to skip loading a broken edit.hlp file,
although only one of three header words is checked strongly yet.
* Security: Refuses invalid directories and drives after lastdrive now.
SaveAs should be quite a bit safer now but not really perfect yet.
* Reenabled double border for in-focus dialog listboxes(*) and in-focus
text windows. (*) is very good as you did not SEE that focus before!
Open issues:
* HELP should be updated to tell that Alt-Digit can be used to directly
jump to open windows, but that this means the digit keys on top of
the keyboard, not the numpad digit keys which have other purposes.
* HELP should be updated to tell that Ctrl-P letter for literal typing
of things like tab or esc is supported in dialogs AND text windows.
* HELP should be updated to mention all hotkeys, e.g. Ctrl-F is known
to be not yet mentioned in the help text...
* I could not find a BUG in the automatic dropdown menu width setup
code which makes the "Ctrl-F" hotkey label of FIND look like "Ctrl-"!
Wishlist:
* The WINDOW menu item is not blocked if there are no windows open, no
real problem...
* Functions to TILE or CASCADE windows would be nice, and at least the
CASCADE function should be reasonably easy to implement.
* It would be nice to have some mouse support in the ASCII table, e.g.
klicking on a char could select it and maybe even paste it to the
most recently active editor text window...
* Something like a ruler or temporarily showing line and column number
around the current editor text window might be nice - but is hard.
* A function to insert date and time as string at the cursor location
might be useful. But I actually do not think it is worth the hassle.
Thanks in advance for testing. I hope you enjoy the update :-).
Eric
PS: The width bug is assumed to be in popdown.c, something is using
SelectionWidth() or MenuWidth() the wrong way or uses one while it
should be using the other or similar. Again, I could not find it.
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