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- Captain Nemo version 0.2 improvments
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- VIEWER
- [1] Shift-F7 restarts search without asking for string again.
- [8] Alt-F3 selects secondary viewer.
- If F3 calls the external viewer, Alt-F3 will call the
- internal one. If F3 calls the internal viewer, Alt-F3
- will call the external one.
- [13] Viewer has a HEX display mode. The mode is saved across files.
- [14] Viewer can append the viewed file portion to a file.
- It is always the binary file data which is appended,
- not the screen image.
- [53] When looking for strings in binary files, strings located
- behind null characters can be found.
- [57] File position is displayed properly for files over 20 Mb.
- [58] Full pathname of the viewed file is displayed, instead of
- the basename.
- [59] Backscrolling speed in PM mode is greatly augmented (the
- screen used to be redrawn entirely in spite of scrolling).
- [61] ^E has the effect of arrow-up and ^X the effect of arrow-down
- [63] Hilighted text search result stays hilighted longer.
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- EDITOR
- [50] Built-in editor.
- [59] 'dirinfo' files can be edited inside info panels.
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- DIRECTORY PANELS
- [7] When changing the drive from a diskette drive to another drive,
- Nemo doesn't try to access the diskette, to avoid hard
- error daemon popups, in case the diskette has been removed.
- [9] Mini-status windows shows size and number of tagged files, if any.
- [16] After implicitely switching from brief to full directory format,
- through a disk change (FAT to HPFS), Nemo 0.1 didn't notice
- the change in the number of visible items per panel, so it
- was possible to scroll out of the panel.
- [17] Nemo has Brief formats for HPFS disks and logical naming mode.
- They offer 2 colums of text on 80 column displays, and 3 on
- a 132 column displays.
- [24] File selection by initial starts at the current directory entry
- instead of the directory beginning.
- [25] Pressing "Ins" over an empty directory when "Ins Moves Down"
- is off is ignored.
- [26] Directories can be sorted case insensitively, as well as
- sensitively.
- [27] Mini-status mode can be used in as few as 8 lines.
- [31] Directories can be sorted up or down.
- [32) When sorting directories by size, Nemo sorts entries
- corresponding to directories by name, like NC.
- Direction is common.
- [35] Pressing ^PageDown over something other than a directory entry
- is ignored. Pressing ^PageDown over ".." acts like pressing
- Enter, but doesn't replace the selection bar over the exited
- directory's name.
- [39] When creating a new dir while both panels show the same
- dir, Nemo preserves the selection of the other panel
- based on its name and not on its index.
- [41] Tagged entries are not partly lost when executing an OS/2
- command.
- [52] Directory type is saved in nemo.ini even if a given panel is
- saved as being "Info".
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- INFO PANELS
- [23] Info panels never overflow.
- [51] 'dirinfo' is displayed in info panels.
- [54] Info panels are always 40 chars wide.
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- PANELS
- [43] ^R is ignored when both panels are off.
- [44] ^O, Alt-F1/F2, ^O doesn't exit through 'assert failed'.
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- FILE OPERATIONS
- [3] Moving locked file gives better error diagnostic:
- retry/copy/cancel.
- Previously it displayed that the destination file is R/O
- if the destination is on the same disk as the source.
- NB: NC v.2 and v.3 both have this erroneous diagnostic.
- [19] Dialog box displayed when copy or move is selected from F9/Files,
- while both panels are hidden is correct.
- [28] When copying, or moving files from the current panel,
- Nemo proposes the directory of the other panel,
- if this panel is visible and a directory. Otherwise,
- it proposes the current selection as target (rename).
- [30] When encountering file reading problems, Nemo tries to recover.
- [37] When copying/moving several files, Nemo will stop in case
- of errors.
- [45] ^C can interrupt a single copy/move, as well as
- multiple copies/moves.
- [64] Using wildcards when copying files by Shift-F5/Shift-F6 works.
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- MENUS
- [2] Arrow-down key pulls down menus.
- This is a NC v.3 feature, not present in v.2
- [15] Pull-down menus are scrollable and adjust themselves to
- screen size. Nemo 0.1 exited through a failed assert
- if the screen was too short.
- [18] Pull-down menus accept Home/End/PageUp/PageDown.
- [38] Hotkeys in pull-down menus are hilighted.
- [40] When a menu cannot be shown entirely, a scrollbar is displayed.
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- SCREEN SAVER
- [5] Screen saver doesn't leave cursor visible in PM mode.
- [20] Screen saver leaves a wandering message instead of a blank screen.
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- FILE FINDER
- [21] In FileFind, looking for "file.*" also gives "file".
- (But looking for "file" doesn't give "file.ext".
- Please use "file.*" as pattern in such cases.)
- [22] FileFind can be used in as few as 8 display lines.
- [48] ArrowDown key unlocks the File-Find listbox when searching,
- just like the End key, if issued when the selection
- bar is on the last entry.
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- GENERAL
- [6] Cursor is hidden when the time is updated.
- This avoids some parasites under the top left corner.
- [10] ^P and ^S are operative.
- But ^C is no more an interrupt char (it isn't in NC either).
- ^Break is required.
- [11] Nemo doesn't waste CPU cycles when idle.
- But the screen saver cannot be waked up with a dead key.
- [29] When Nemo finds nemo.ini corrupted, it writes out a correct one
- if "Save Setup"/F9/O/S is selected.
- [33] Code page support. Nemo will try to avoid using characters
- not present in the current code page.
- [42] Keyboard buffer is emptied after message boxes are displayed
- and before getting user input.
- [46] Hard-error daemon popups have been disabled.
- [62] Nemo works in windows as small as 6 lines. Some functions won't
- be available however. The impossibility to perform a certain
- function is signalled by a beep.
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- HELP SCREENS
- [12] Main help screen is scrollable and adjusts itself to screen size.
- In 0.1, it was cut.
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- EXTENSION FILE
- [34] In nemo.ext, !* can be used to insert the list of all tagged
- files into a command. The list is limited to about 300 chars.
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- COMMAND LINE
- [4] keypad5, ^keypad5 and ^Tab don't block Nemo.
- [36] When pressing Shift-Enter instead of Enter, the prefix defined in
- F9/O/X is inserted before executed command line.
- [47] History admits up to 40 back commands, and its panel is
- scrollable if needed.
- [49] Hysteresis shift is 16 instead of 15.
- [55] "CD." is interpreted locally, just "like CD.." and "CD\"
- [56] ^W deletes previous word instead of previous character.
- [60] Alt-Enter inserts the current directory name, followed
- by a backslash.
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