DeskEdit 4 Lee Calcraft Originally published by BEEBUG Ltd

Description from the back cover

General editing features

Three special Find and Replace modes, from Simple to Power Search.
Additional Quick-Search mode for rapid retrieval.
Text macros to insert user strings in both text and source code.
Special Undelete buffer for moving text around, in addition to Edit-style Undo/Redo.
Dedicated markers and position finders for finding your way around large files.
Clipboard, providing an alternative way to move text around.

Plus

On screen Help: full documentation in a scrollable window.
Instant file info feature, and current directory setter.
Caret flash controller for DeskEdit and other applications.
Customised user commands to open directories, run other applications and launch Obey files.
Numerous keyboard shortcuts including date and filename insertion, changing case etc.

Printout

Fast text printout including style codes for bold, underline, italics, page breaks etc.
Special text printing options with headers, footers, page numbers and style codes.
A Statistics option with a summary of aspects of the text to be printed. Useful Preview mode.

Language specific features

DeskEdit will format word-wrapped plain text as you type.
Basic files will automatically be detokenised, when you drag them to the icon, and loaded into DeskEdit ready for editing. F3 will retokenise and save them after editing.
Function and Procedure browser. Automatic line number insertion.
Special C language features: Auto indent facility combined with automatic generation of opening braces streamlines source code entry. C function browser and syntax checker.

DeskEdit 4 is included on this CD by permission of Lee Calcraft

Contents

	DeskEdit 4 version 4.01
	Find version 4.00 Acorn's Find utility
	Dustbin version 2.50 Desktop dustbin utility (new version for this CD)
	Software archive Click to open the program's archive, which also contains style-free versions of the HTML manuals and other resources

Documentation

	DeskEdit (version 1) manual in HTML The complete manual for the original version of DeskEdit
	DeskEdit version 2 to version 4 upgrade manual in HTML The bulk of the documentation specific to DeskEdit 4 is provided here
	DeskEdit version 3 to version 4 upgrade manual in HTML This is a shorter version of the 2-to-4 supplement
	Function key strip An Ovation Pro file which can be printed out using the demo copy on this CD. This is a newly created strip which has been designed to fit on an A4 page.
	DeskEdit 2 Reference Card A reference summary of DeskEdit 2 operations and keyboard shortcuts
	Release notes
	Original documentation files A selection of original documentation files, including the DeskEdit 1 manual in DeskEdit format, the original function key strip in Impression format, and reference cards for DeskEdit 1 (text format) and 2 (Ovation format, as above)