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- **** The Aurora Editor v1.20, January 1994 ****
- (c) Copyright 1993-1994 Aurora Terra, Inc
- All Rights Reserved.
-
-
- Welcome to The Aurora Editor v1.20. The Aurora Editor is an advanced
- high performance text editor with a superb windowing environment, full
- mouse support, a huge one gigabyte virtual memory for editing very
- large files, an object oriented macro language, a multi-instance
- programmable file manager, unlimited multi-level undo/redo, a 386
- version, and much, much more!
-
- To install The Aurora Editor, simply copy the distributed files to the
- drive and directory of your choice. Add this directory to your DOS
- "PATH" for easier access.
-
- NOTE: If you are installing over a previous version of Aurora, be sure
- to backup your configuration files (ACFG.A, AKBD.A, AMEN.A, ATRN.A)
- before installing.
-
- While you are using the editor, you can press F1 or click on the Help
- menu bar item to obtain online help on any topic. Press <Esc> to
- activate the pull-down menu system and explore the features of Aurora.
-
- The complete documentation for using and configuring the editor is
- contained in the file A.DOC. Documentation for the Macro Language is
- contained in the file AML.DOC. Both documents can be printed with the
- DOS "print" command.
-
- Technical support is available by telephone (301-468-2255), U.S. Mail,
- Internet Email to: 71702.1025@compuserve.com, or Compuserve Email to:
- 71702,1025. Technical support can also be obtained from the Aurora
- Support BBS (301-230-1214). You can call the BBS 24hrs/day at speeds
- up to 14,400 bps with v.32bis connections.
-
- Additional support is available on the FidoNet AURORA conference by
- polling 1:300/8 on FidoNet, or through shareware conferences on the
- FidoNet, RIME, ILink, SmartNet and U'NI-Net networks.
-
- Thank you for evaluating Aurora!
-
-
-
- What's new and different in version 1.20 (Jan 14, 1994)
- --------------------------------------------------------
-
- o User-definable Text Translation automatically expands abbreviations
- and corrects commonly misspelled words or typos as you enter
- characters into your text. You define the words and substitution
- text in a translation table in the file ATRN.A. You can also define
- macros that are executed whenever the macro function name is entered
- as a word in your text.
-
- Text translation can be turned ON and OFF for each Edit window via
- the "Translate" <Alt-F4> toggle on the "Set" pull-down menu. When
- text translation is ON, a "T" appears on the status line. <Alt-F5>
- can be used to edit the translation table (ATRN.A).
-
- One new library command was added for text translation:
-
- wmtran - translation ON/OFF toggle
-
- Three new configuration variables were added:
-
- TextTran - text translation ON/OFF default
- TranObj - current text translation macro object
- TranCSet - character set defining a word for translation lookup
-
- <Alt-F5> can be used to edit the translation table (ATRN.A).
-
- (see "Text Translation" 18-7 in A.DOC).
-
- o From the "Open and Insert" prompt: pressing <Enter> or specifying
- directories or wildcards will now open a File Manager window and
- prompt you to select a file.
-
- o New Edit window color settings were added to the configuration
- file ACFG.A:
-
- coEdiD - the color of modified or "dirty" lines
- coEdiDL - the color of a modified line at the cursor
-
- o The Binary Line Length can now be specified after the "b" option
- when opening binary files from the "Open" prompt(s) or DOS command
- line. For example:
-
- Open> myfile.txt/b43
-
- In the example above, "myfile.txt" is opened in binary mode with a
- line length of 43.
-
- o The <Shift> keys can now be used in combination with the cursor keys
- to create character and line marks.
-
- o The "Expand Tabs" <Ctrl-K-X> command now accepts TabWidth values
- from 1 to 64.
-
- o A new config setting "DlgStyle" allows you set the border style for
- dialog boxes (similar to "BoxStyle" for one-line box prompts).
-
- o The new command "askkrep" <Ctrl-Q-Q> repeats the last key command
- entered. You are prompted for the number of repetitions.
-
- o An editor macro can now be specified on the DOS command line with
- the a "-e" command line option. The macro will be executed after
- the editor (and all files) are loaded.
-
- o The library function "cgoto" was renamed to "cmov".
-
- o The "k_chr" event function has been moved from ALIB.X to AKBD.A for
- edit and prompt windows. It can be used to intercept non-function
- (typeable) keys.
-
- o The evaluation copy can be registered with a key to facilitate easy
- upgrades for licensed users.
-
- o New About box and Exit screen.
-
- o Other minor changes.
-
- o Maintenance:
-
- Fixed a rare bug causing error messages #101-#109.
- Better recovery from full disk saves.
- The video blink mode is reset when exiting the editor.
- Fixed minor printing problems.
- Other minor bug fixes.
-
-
- What's different in version 1.12 (Nov 17, 1993)
- ------------------------------------------------
-
- Version 1.12 is a maintenance release and also contains a few minor
- enhancements since the previous version (v1.11):
-
-
- o Added the option to ignore case when sorting marked blocks.
-
- o Added the "Append" option to the replacement confirmation menu
- when replacing files with block saves or with move/copy from
- the file manager.
-
- o Added the new configuration setting "BoxStyle", which allows you
- to add optional 3D effects to one-line box prompts.
-
- o Added a sample macro to AKBD.A showing how to call a spell check
- program from within an edit window.
-
- o Aurora is now a "DESQview aware" program.
-
- o Minor bug fixes
-
-
- What's different in version 1.11 (Nov 7, 1993)
- -----------------------------------------------
-
- o The contents of a character mark can now be saved to disk.
-
- o The option "a" was added to the library function "msave" (save
- block). This option will allow the block to be appended to an
- existing file.
-
- o A new library function "qwrd" returns the word at the cursor.
-
- o Increased the internal stack size when shelling out to dos. This
- resolves conflicts with some network cards which may require more
- interrupt stack space.
-
- o Corrected an initialization problem which may cause OS/2 or QEMM
- traps on a few machines.
-
- o Added sample macro code to the File Manager (see AKBD.A) to show
- how to do spell checking, image viewing, unarchiving, and archive
- viewing, etc with files listed in the File Manager.
-
- o Other minor changes.
-
-