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- Programmer's File Editor
- History of Development Changes
- ------------------------------
-
- Not all the versions whose numbers appear in the list below have been released
- publicly
-
- Items are flagged thus:
-
- [PFE32] : item is specific to the 32-bit edition on all platforms
- [WIN95] : item is specific to the 32-bit edition under Windows 95
- [NT] : item is specific to the 32-bit edition under Windows NT
- (all platforms)
- [NT-IN] : item is specific to the 32-bit edition under Windows NT
- (Intel platforms)
- [NT-PPC] : item is specific to the 32-bit edition under Windows NT
- (PowerPC platforms)
- [PFE16] : item is specific to the 16-bit edition
-
-
- 0.06.001
- --------
-
- Screen font options have been removed from the Options menu; the
- functionality is now in the Screen Font panel of the Options Preferences
- dialog. The mappable commands have been retained
-
- Files opened from the MRU list on the file menu now normally open with
- the window at the same position in the MDI workspace, and the caret at
- the same position in the file, as when they were closed. Holding Shift
- down when the menu item is selected suppresses this action.
-
- When a file is selected from the MRU list in the File menu, holding the
- Control key down as the menu item is selected will force it to be opened
- in read-only mode
-
- Window and caret positioning data can optionally be used when files are
- opened from the various File Open dialogs, over a DDE link, or from
- the command line. The DDE commands FileOpen and FileView by default do
- not use saved position data to avoid disturbing other applications, but
- may change this with a new optional extra argument. A command line argument
- /w0 prohibits use of recorded positions for command line files, and /w1
- forces use.
-
- [PFE32] Fixed bug that would stop PFE coming to the foreground if
- control is passed from another instance
-
- Added DDE command "ComeToForeground()" to restore PFE from iconic
- and make it the active foreground window
-
- Fixed bug that did not make filenames given on the command line absolute
- if control was passed to another instance
-
- If a window being printed contains a highlight, the default in the File
- Print dialog is now to print the selected text only, rather than the
- whole file
-
- Many minor adjustments for compatibility with Windows 95
-
- [WIN95] The Exit Windows dialog now works correctly
-
- Icons redesigned to reflect the new split into 16-bit and 32-bit
- editions rather than Windows and Windows NT versions
-
- [PFE32] Fixed bug cause the Execute dialogs to fail if the working
- directory path was specified as a relative name
-
- Fixed bug causing the bitmap images in horizontal toolbar buttons to be
- only partially redrawn in some circumstances
-
- Fixed bug whereby the mouse cursor shape would change to reflect the
- selection location of the child window with focus when the cursor was
- over any other window
-
- Fixed bug where a delete of a text area, or an undo of a typing sequence,
- entirely contained in one line sometimes did not update the affected line
- in windows showing the same file
-
- Fixed bug which left the Options Key Mapping dialog having no control with
- focus when one of the buttons was clicked
-
-
- 0.05.008
- --------
-
- Use 3D controls in dialogs; some dialogs have been amended slightly for
- artistic and practical reasons (3D effects are not available for PFE32
- running under Win32s in this release)
-
- Major internal redesign of the text display system
-
- Text windows now show a small margin to the left of the text to make mouse
- pointing easier
-
- Fixed bug that led to underscore characters not being printed on some printer
- drivers
-
- Added Options Preferences command to set all configurable items; editing the
- ini file is no longer necessary and is discouraged
-
- The formats and names of the [fileopen-filters], [help-files] and [managers]
- sections of the ini file have changed, and values set by versions prior to
- 0.05.008 will not be processed. To set new values, use the Options Preferences
- command
-
- Fixed a bug in the File Open and related dialogs, whereby anything typed
- between issuing the command and the dialog's appearing would leak into any
- active edit window
-
- [PFE32] Fixed a bug that would cause some filenames to be erroneously lower-
- cased
-
- Fixed a memory leak caused by the DDE service name not being freed from the
- atom table on termination
-
- Fixed bug that would save changed key map data to the standard default file if
- changes were unsaved at closedown, even if the user had used the /k command
- line option to specify another keymap file
-
- [PFE32] Fixed a bug that caused the Save As sub-dialog of the Options Key Map
- dialog always to lower case the supplied filename
-
- Added a configuration option in Options Preferences to allow the keymap file
- loaded by default at startup to be specified
-
- The file extension used when backing up to files in the same directory as the
- original can now be specified through Options Preferences
-
- The maximum number of recently-used files shown on the File menu has been
- increased to 32; to accomodate the larger menu length, the Options Preferences
- command can be used to specify that the list be placed in a second column
- rather than appended linearly to the File menu
-
- Fixed a bug causing wildcarded files on the command line to be opened in write
- mode regardless of any /v options specifying read-only
-
- Colours used for the MDI workspace, the status bar and the toolbar can now be
- configured with the Options Preferences command
-
- The Options Default File/Window Modes and Options Current File/Window Modes
- commands have been completely redesigned, and are now Options Default Modes and
- Options Current Modes respectively. Modes now include text colours, and are
- stored for sets of wildcardable file name patterns known as mode groups rather
- than on an individual file extension basis. Mode values saved by earlier versions
- of PFE will need to be redefined with Options Default Modes
-
- Added the ability to select that a block caret be used for insert mode
- and a line caret for overtype mode, reversing the default state
-
- Added an Open Other File button to the More Files MRU list dialog, to
- allow a quick way of getting to the File Open dialog if the desired file
- is not in the MRU list
-
- Fixed bug in Execute DOS Command to Window dialog that limited command
- line length to whatever would fit in the Command Line edit control
- without scrolling
-
- The data format in a DDE Request from another application is now correctly
- checked; PFE will respond only if the format is CF_TEXT
-
- Added Browse Working Directory buttons to the Execute DOS Command to
- Window, Execute Launch Application and Execute Launch Windows Tool
- dialogs
-
- A commmand line, rather than simply an executable name, can now be
- specified in Options Preferences as the object to be run by the Execute
- DOS Prompt command
-
- The EditGotoLine dialog and EditGotoLine DDE command now accept a file
- position specification string, allowing absolute or relative movement
- to lines and to window columns or characters within lines
-
- Added a -g command line option introducing a file position
- specification, which is used to move automatically to the specified
- location in the first file named on the command line
-
- Tool bar and status bar commands have been removed from the Options menu
- and the functionality transferred to the Options Preferences dialog. The
- key-mappable commands are still available
-
- Fixed bug causing GPF when > 64 characters were deleted with delete
- forward or back, the file was closed without saving, and the question on
- saving changes was answered "no"
-
- The MRU Files dialog now allows the selected file to be opened in read-
- only mode
-
- The default behaviour where the first mouse click moving between child
- windows does not move the caret can now be changed with Options Preferences
-
- The tool bar paste button is now correctly set when other applications
- move data on and off the clipboard
-
- Scroll bars in the MDI desktop window, normally created when an edit
- window is partly out of view, can now be suppressed with the Options
- Preferences command
-
- When auto-minimizing the main window when the last edit window is
- closed, PFE now transfers activation to the next window in Windows'
- list rather than retaining focus in its own icon
-
- The directory containing the initialisation file can now be specified
- with the Options Preferences command
-
- PFE now checks whether the disk versions of files being edited have been
- altered by other applications or network workstations; checks are made
- whenever PFE becomes the active application, and when any file is saved
-
-
- 0.05.007
- --------
-
- Fixed untidy button alignment in the EditGotoLine dialog
-
- The Find and Replace With edit controls in the Replace dialog now can be
- scrolled horizontally to see the whole of long strings
-
- The file type for backup files has changed from ".&&&" to ".$$$" to avoid
- problems with command processors using "&" as a special character
-
- The mouse cursor is now set to a hand when over a drag-and-droppable
- highlighted area for a better cue to the user
-
- [PFE32] Fixed a bug that led to a drag-and-drop operation being recorded as two
- undo actions, with a spurious Undo Paste action being left active
-
- The mouse cursor is now less flickery when a highlight is being extended by
- dragging with the left button down
-
- Fixed a bug that could lead to Alt key menu-accelerators being ignored in
- complicated circumstances
-
- The Save As button in the Options Key Mapping dialog is now enabled only when
- the key mapping has changed
-
- Circumvented a Common Dialog bug that ignored the Read Only checkbox when
- multiple files were opened at one time with the FileOpen dialog
-
- Fixed several major bugs in the memory manager that could lead to GPFs sometime
- after deleting a large section of a file
-
- Fixed a loader bug that allocated control blocks inefficiently when a file
- was loaded and consumed more memory than necessary
-
- Fixed a bug in the Options Key Map dialog whereby the Change button could be
- clicked with no command selected in the Commands section, leading to a GPF in
- PFE16 and (probably) the wrong thing happening in PFE32
-
- Fixed a bug that prevented the key sequences Esc Space, Ctrl+Space and
- Ctrl+Alt+Space being mapped to commands
-
- Fixed a bug that would cause a hang or a GPF if a Find string that ended in
- a '\' character was specified; a Replace string that ended in '\' would be
- incorrectly handled also
-
- The '^' character is no longer supported as an escape in Find and Replace
- strings; '\' must now be used
-
- Fixed a bug that would cause the NumLock and CapsLock status bar indicators to
- get out-of-state with the keyboard if the lock keys were allowed to auto-repeat
-
- Added DDE enquiry topic "VersionString" that returns the id of the current
- version in "x.yy.zzz" format as in the Help About dialog
-
- Added command EditSelectLine and corresponding DDE command to select all the
- text in the line containing the caret, leaving the caret at the left hand end
-
- Fixed a bug that would cause a GPF on startup if any ini file argument
- contained an embedded quote. This would commonly occur if Find/Replace strings
- had been saved
-
- Fixed a bug that could cause saved find/replace strings containing quotes or
- commas to be corrupted or ignored on startup
-
- Fixed a bug that lost the state of the "show full pathnames" checkbox in the
- file MRU dialog between successive uses of the dialog
-
- Fixed a bug that allowed the EditDeleteSelection command to be invoked from the
- keyboard with no text selected, causing a GPF
-
- The OK button in the Execute DOS Command to Window and Execute Launch
- Application dialogs is now enabled when the command is chosen with the Browse
- button
-
- The File Name command now marks the file as having been altered, allowing it
- easily to be saved under its new identity
-
- The Window Next command no longer hangs the system if used when some windows
- are iconic
-
- Edit Repeat Last Find and Edit Repeat Last Replace no longer cause hangs or
- GPFs if invoked when no previous find or replace has taken place
-
- Added backup-mode=5 to the [options] section of the ini file to disable all
- file backups
-
- Fixed bug where adding a template to a template file could fail to note that
- the in-store copy of the file had changed, and make it impossible to detach the
- template file
-
- Fixed bug where template files larger than about 32K (but under the maximum
- permitted size of around 62K) failed to attach, with a "template file is not a
- valid size" message
-
- Fixed bug that did not check whether a template file contained the maximum
- supported number of templates (64) before saving another one, leading to file
- corruptions
-
- Fixed bug where a template could be saved to a template file and make it larger
- than the maximum supported size (about 62K)
-
- Fixed bug where updating a template in a template file would fail if there was
- insufficient space in the template file for both the old and new versions of
- the template
-
- File names containing '&' characters are now correctly displayed in the MRU
- list on the File menu
-
- The Options Default File/Window Modes dialog now allows Read Only mode to be
- defined
-
- The keyboard handlers have been changed to make the right hand Alt key
- functional on US keyboards. On non-US keyboards the key should function as
- AltGr for national character generation
-
- Child windows now are constrained to be no smaller than 3 full lines of text in
- depth and 10 characters in width. This overcomes various GPFs in code that
- assumed a minimum window size was being enforced by someone else.
-
- Fixed a bug that did not return focus correctly to a child window if the
- Execute DOS Command to Window or similar command was run, unsaved files
- existed, and the user replied Cancel to the query on whether to save them
-
- Fixed a bug that caused filenames that contained "." and ".." directory
- components not be made absolute if passed on the command line
-
- Fixed a bug that showed an un-necessary drive letter in a filename in the MRU
- list if the drive had been specified in upper case
-
- The File Name command now correctly lower-cases the supplied filename under
- Windows 3
-
- The subdirectory name used for backups when the appropriate mode is selected
- can now be 12 characters long, allowing the full 8.3 filename format
-
- General release 12 July 1994
-
-
-
- 0.05.006
- --------
-
- EditTextInsertASCIICode now correctly inserts Ctrl+I as a single 0x09 character
- regardless of whether the window is set for soft tabs
-
- Added functions CaretTopOfWindow (Ctrl+PgUp) and CaretTopOfWindowSelect
- (Ctrl+Shift+PgUp), and a corresponding DDE command CaretTopOfWindow, which move
- the caret to the top left of the current window
-
- Added functions CaretBottomOfWindow (Ctrl+PgDn) and CaretBottomOfWindowSelect
- (Ctrl+Shift+PgDn), and a corresponding DDE command CaretBottomOfWindow, which
- move the caret to the bottom left of the current window
-
- Added functions CaretStartOfText (Alt+Home) and CaretStartOfTextSelect
- (Alt+Shift+Home), and a corresponding DDE command CaretStartOfText, which move
- the caret to the first non-white-space character in the current line
-
- A number of function names and DDE command names have changed to be more
- consistent with others:
- EditGotoEnd[Select] now CaretEndOfFile[Select]
- EditGotoStart[Select] now CaretStartOfFile[Select]
- CaretHome[Select] now CaretStartOfLine[Select]
- CaretEnd[Select] now CaretEndOfLine[Select]
-
- Fixed a bug that would cause strange behaviour if WindowTileVertical was
- used with the current child window maximized
-
- Fixed a bug that would leave the caret and the insertion point at different
- places if EditShowCaret was used with the caret in the line immediately above
- or below the visible window
-
- Changed the menu accelerator keys for Edit|Copy and Edit|Cut to be compliant
- with standard Windows usage
-
- Fixed a bug that would cause PgUp and PgDn to corrupt the undo stack, leading
- to subsequent GPFs or data corruption
-
- [PFE16] Fixed a bug whereby pressing and releasing AltGr would stop keypad and
- caret movement keys working again in the session
-
- The default backup mode is now to keep the file in the same directory as the
- original, with a file type of ".&&&", and the backup-mode numbers in the
- [options] section of the ini file have changed to make this '0'
-
- [PFE32] Circumvented a Win32s 1.1 bug that would corrupt the font size set
- in the printer and screen font selection dialogs when running the 32-bit version
- under Windows 3.1
-
- General release on 13 January 1994
-
-
- 0.05.005
- --------
-
- Fixed a bug whereby an Edit Copy following a sequence of typing or deleting
- would corrupt the undo stack and lead to a GPF sometime later
-
- Menu items now show descriptive text in the status bar when they are selected
-
- Status bar updates are now somewhat smoother and less flickery
-
- [PFE32] DOS Command-with-capture menu and toolbar items are now correctly
- disabled under Win32s
-
- Backup now has two modes, selectable with the 'backup-mode' key in the
- [options] section of the ini file; files can be backed up either to
- subdirectories with the same name, or in the same directory as the original
- with a file type of ".&&&"
-
- The documented escape character in search strings is now '\' (so that, for
- example, a tab is '\t'). The old '^' escape is still supported for the moment,
- but needs to be phased out to allow regular expressions to be implemented
-
- Fixed a bug that would prevent network printers identified by UNCname being
- correctly remembered as the default printer between sessions, and would prevent
- the settings for such printers being remembered
-
- Fixed a bug that would cause a machine using PathWorks to report a network fail
- on drive "?" when PFE was started in the root directory of a drive
-
- [PFE32] File names are no longer forced to be lower case in any circumstances,
- avoiding problems in case-aware filing systems like NTFS
-
- The Execute DOS Command to Window and Execute Launch Application dialogs now
- record the last 8 command lines executed, and the last 8 working directories
- visited
-
- Fixed a bug that would add the wrong title to an attachment icon when mailing a
- file via a MAPI mailer
-
- Line numbering is no longer confused when printing a file with Form Feed
- characters appearing other than at the beginning of lines
-
- Toolbar buttons and menu items are now set up correctly when a file is opened
- in read only mode by File View
-
- Added a language type "TeX"; this differs from plain text only in that "-" is
- not considered a break point for line wrapping
-
-
-
- 0.05.004
- --------
-
- Fixed several bugs synchronising undo actions across windows showing the same
- file
-
- Added a command line option '/v' which will cause all files named on the
- command line to be opened in read-only mode
-
- Fixed a bug that caused brace matching to fail in some files with language type
- of "(none)"
-
- Added menu items Execute Program Manager and Execute Task Manager and related
- commands
-
- Fixed a bug that could cause file corruption or GPFs when undoing a 'delete
- back' action
-
- Fixed a bug that would cause a GPF when the Ins key was pressed when no file
- was open
-
- Fixed bugs with non-English keyboards that prevented AltGr+number keys from
- generating characters like { and }
-
- Fixed bugs that could interfere with use of the numeric keyboard to synthesise
- character codes
-
- File save actions now clear the stack of recorded undo actions by default; this
- can be changed with the 'save-clears-undo' setting in the [options] section of
- the ini file
-
- Fixed a file handle leak that would occur whenever a write to disk operation
- failed
-
- By default, any operation that saves a file to disk will now take a backup copy
- of any existing file of the same name before starting; this can be controlled
- by setting the "Backup" file mode
-
- Fixed bugs in the EditTextWidenBrace command that would fail to locate closing
- braces occurring immediately after an existing selection
-
- [PFE32] Fixed a bug that would cause random GPFs and malfunctions in handling
- DDE commands
-
- The EditCopy DDE command now works as documented
-
- Added context help search, to provide help on text in edit windows, available
- from the Help Context Help command or a double click on the right mouse button
-
- The Window Tile Vertical command now preferentially locates windows showing
- command output at the top of the screen
-
- [PFE16] Fixed a bug that could leave work files created to catch command output
- undeleted
-
- The horizontal scroll bar algorithms have been changed, and the thumbtack is
- now more usable on files of normal line widths
-
- The name of the file in the current window can now automatically be substituted
- in command lines executed by the Execute DOS Command To Window, Execute Repeat
- DOS Command To Window, and Execute Launch Application commands
-
-
-
- 0.05.003
- --------
-
- The Execute File Manager, Execute Control Panel and Execute Print Manager
- menu items and related commands now work correctly after being broken in
- 0.05.002
-
- When setting a selection as the default find string, the Edit Find and Edit Replace
- dialogs now correctly translate characters with codes greater than 127 into "^xnn"
- notation
-
- When undo returns a file to an unchanged state, the toolbar Save button and File
- Save menu items are now de-activated
-
- Fixed a bug causing Dr Watson to report parameter validation errors in
- ModifyMenu on startup or on load of a keymap file
-
- The EditCMatchBrace command has been renamed EditTextMatchBrace and now has a menu
- item mapped to Ctrl+B. If the window has a language of "none", brace matching
- is done on {}, [], () and <> without regard to any syntactic elements; if the
- language is "C", matching is done on {}, [] and () and (some) C syntax is taken
- into account
-
- Added command EditTextMatchBraceSelect, mapped to Shift+Ctrl+B, which acts as for
- EditTextMatchBrace but also selects the text between and including the braces
-
- Fixed a bug that would cause problems if brace matching was used when any text
- was highlighted
-
- Fixed a bug that made the KeyPad5 key unusable
-
- Added a command EditTextWidenBraceSelect, mapped to Shift+Ctrl+W, which selects
- successively larger areas of text between braces, using the same brace location
- algorithms as EditTextMatchBrace
-
- Fixed a bug introduced in 0.05.002 that caused the Tab key (and the EditInsertTab
- command it maps to by default) to insert a hard tab even if soft tabs were
- selected for the window
-
- The "Add Ctrl+Z On Save" and "No EOLN after last line" check boxes in the
- Options Default File/Window Modes dialog now work correctly
-
- The default key mappings of Shift+Tab to EditInsertSoftTab and Ctrl+Tab to
- EditInsertHardTab have been removed, as these conflict with standard MDI usage
-
- The status bar is now a little prettier when showing static text messages
-
- The applications run by the Execute File Manager, Execute Print Manager and
- Execute Control Panel menu items can now be customised by means of entries in
- the [managers] section of the ini file
-
-
-
- 0.05.002
- --------
-
- Key mapping has been completely redesigned. Very many more key combinations
- (including Alt keys) can be mapped; any or all of Ctrl+A..Ctrl+Z and Esc can be
- used as prefix keys; and the Key Mapping dialog has been made far easier to
- use. Key map files saved with earlier versions of PFE are not compatible with
- the new system.
-
- The OptionsPrefixKeys command has been removed; prefix keys can now only be
- configured from within the Key Mapping dialog
-
- Added functions EditInsertTab (mapped to Tab), EditInsertHardTab and
- EditInsertSoftTab to insert hard/soft tabs, hard tabs always, and soft tabs
- always, respectively
-
- Added command SysSetMenuMode, mapped to F10, to highlight the leftmost item on
- the main menu, for compatibility with standard practice
-
- The 16-bit and 32-bit ini and default keymap files have been separated. The
- Windows 3.1 version continues to use pfe.ini and pfe.key; the Windows/NT
- version now uses pfe32.ini and pfe32.key
-
- Fixed a bug whereby a sequence like Find-overtype-find-overtype would corrupt
- the Undo stack
-
- Keyboard macro items have been split from the Execute menu and placed in their
- own Macro menu
-
- Added a "Print Manager" item to the Execute menu
-
- The WindowCentreCaret command has been renamed EditShowCaret and now appears
- on the Edit menu
-
- Message boxes that support F1 help now announce this in the status bar
-
- Added a system menu item "Save Screen" to activate a standard Windows screen
- saver program immediately
-
- Arbitrary character codes can now be specified in Find and Replace strings using
- the notation "^xnn", where "nn" are 2 hexadecimal digits
-
- The Replace dialog now contains an "Undo Last" button to undo the last replace
- operation
-
-
-
- 0.05.001
- --------
-
- [PFE32] The File Mail command now loads the correct MAPI DLL (MAPI32.DLL
- instead of MAPI.DLL)
-
- [PFE32] The File Save As dialog now shows a Network button on networked
- machines
-
- The Goto Line dialog now correctly accepts an attempt to specify the final
- line of a file
-
- Form Feed characters can now be specified in Find and Replace strings using
- the notation "^f"
-
- Moved the hot-spot in the toolbar 'hand' cursor to the tip of the index finger,
- to make use more intuitive
-
- Fixed a bug that would cause a UAE if Edit Select All or Edit Select Word were
- followed by any cursor movement key that also extended the selection
-
- File loading has been made faster; load time is now much closer to proportional
- to file size, rather than degrading progressively as lines are loaded
-
- When a file is opened, the loader now displays the first window's worth of text
- as soon as it is read from disk, to give better feedback on what is happening
-
- The Edit Find and Edit Replace dialogs now retain the last 8 strings used, and
- these can be reselected from drop-down list boxes. Optionally, the strings can
- be recorded at the end of a session and reloaded in the next
-
- The Edit Find and Edit Replace dialogs now default the text in their Find What
- edit controls to the first 256 characters of any selected text in the current
- window. The previously-used search string will always be available as the first
- in the drop-down list
-
- Added a command EditTextInsertASCIICode, mapped to Ctrl+Q by default, which
- runs a dialog allowing control characters and other non-typable characters to
- be inserted
-
- Implemented a multi-level undo facility to reverse edit actions
-
- Added file modes to strip any trailing Ctrl+Z when a file is loaded;
- to automatically add a Ctrl+Z to the end when a file is saved; and to suppress
- writing an EOLN terminator at the end of the last line when a file is saved
-
- Added a command HelpScreenMenuHelp, mapped to Shift+F1, which enters the
- help system at an appropriate point when the mouse is clicked on a menu command
- or an area of the tool bar or status bar
-
-
-
- 0.04.009
- --------
-
- [PFE16] PFE now can detect it is running under WOW and tailor things
- accordingly
-
- Fixed a bug that limited the maximum value of the 'mru-files-shown' ini file
- option to 5 instead of the documented 8; also set the minimum value to 0
- rather than 3
-
- Added an ini file option 'sound-beep' to suppress all beeps associated with
- message boxes
-
- Ctrl+Backspace can now be mapped correctly
-
- Cleared the confusion in handling mapping of Shift+Backspace; for the moment
- this has required that Ctrl+Shift+H is no longer mappable
-
- Fixed a bug that caused a print operation to fail when the last line of the
- file was printed on the last line of any page
-
- The Edit Goto Line dialog now has a system menu
-
- The OK button in the Edit Goto Line dialog is now enabled only if a line number
- has been typed in the Line To Goto edit control
-
- The Edit Goto Line dialog now accepts line numbers preceded by "+" or "-" as
- meaning relative to the current line number
-
- Fixed a bug in the Default File/Window Modes dialog that would cause the tab
- size to be set as a negative value if soft tabbing was selected
-
- Edit controls in dialogs that accept numeric input are now insensitive to
- leading and trailing white space
-
- The Key Mapping dialog now prompts if there are unsaved changes when the Load
- button is clicked, and correctly resets the "unsaved changes" flag
-
- Changes to windows made by allowing keys to auto-repeat, and tracking of mouse
- selections, should now appear better on slower machines
-
- The "auto-indent" window mode is now respected by the routines that wrap text
- as it is being typed
-
- Fixed some bugs in control block chaining that could cause UAEs when closing
- some of a large number of open windows and/or files
-
- Installing a printer of an existing type, but connected to a different port,
- while PFE is running no longer confuses the Print Setup dialog over which
- printer is the default
-
- Printers connected to files by means of a "pathname=" line in the [Ports]
- section of win.ini are now handled correctly, and the filename is not corrupted
-
- When text wrapping is active, typing at the end of a line that already extends
- past the wrap column now correctly breaks the line at the break point closest
- to, and left of, the wrap column
-
- [PFE32] Circumvented a Windows/NT bug that caused a GP fault when the Apply
- button was clicked in the Options Default File/Window Modes dialog and some
- other dialogs (October 1992 beta only)
-
- The ini file [options] setting "auto-unix" has been renamed "auto-format"
-
- If PFE is exited with the tool bar floating and also hidden, the tool bar is
- now drawn correctly the next time it is made visible
-
- The Edit Cut tool bar button, and the key mapped to EditCut, are now correctly
- disabled if the current file is marked read-only
-
- PFE now correctly responds when printers are changed via Control Panel.It
- no longer records the driver name in its ini file, so that it will not try to
- use an obsolete driver after an upgrade
-
- Fixed a bug that caused a parameter validation error in GetWindowLong if
- the left button was double clicked in the menu bar and no file was open
-
- Fixed further bugs that would cause looping replacing strings containing
- "^n" characters
-
- Fixed a bug causing a parameter validation error in SetWindowText when the
- "Remap Key" button of the Options Key Mapping dialog was pressed
-
- [PFE32] Full template functionality is now available. PFE32 now correctly uses
- the same file format as PFE16; template files created under earlier versions of
- PFE32 will no longer work
-
- [PFE32] The system shutdown options in the "Exit Windows/NT" dialog now
- work correctly
-
- [PFE32] It is now possible to run DOS commands and capture output
-
- Fixed a bug that would cause PFE to hang or misbehave while searching if the
- text contained characters > 127
-
- The file position in the status bar is now updated correctly after a succesful
- search from the Find or Replace dialog
-
- [PFE32] File Insert no longer fails with a "Cannot get file size" message
-
- Fixed a bug that would cause a UAE when performing a template action after
- detaching a template file
-
- The File Save All command now saves all open files, and not only altered ones,
- if the ini file option 'allow-save-always' is set
-
- A file's save format now cannot be altered if the file is marked as read only
-
- Changing the format a file is saved in via the modes dialog or with the status
- bar now marks the file as changed
-
- Added a DDE command EditGotoLine
-
- Added an ini file option 'auto-file-action' to have PFE either create an empty
- edit window or show the File Open dialog automatically if started with no file
- names on the command line
-
- Files whose first character is a Form Feed (0x0c) character now print correctly
-
- Fixed numerous bugs affecting synchronisation of changes in duplicated windows
-
- File Close now correctly asks if changes should be saved if the current file
- is visible in more than one window
-
- [PFE32] File Close now works correctly always
-
- Fixed a bug that would randomly cause the ini file option 'open-maximized' to
- be ignored
-
- Fixed a printing bug that would lose the header line giving the file name when
- a top margin was selected
-
- [PFE32] Fixed a bug causing a UAE trying to display an empty line that is
- not within a selection
-
- [PFE32] Drag and drop of files from File Manager into the PFE window now
- correctly opens them
-
- Fixed a bug that could produce "Bad offset" warnings or misplace the caret
- when inserting files larger than 8K whose last lines did not end in CRLF or LF
-
- General release on April 28 1993
-
-
- 0.04.008
- --------
-
- [PFE32] Fixed a bug that would cause a UAE on clicking the OK box of any font-
- selection dialog
-
- Added a 'toolbar-size' option to the ini file to override the automatic sizing
- of the tool bar
-
- Removed the confusing Edit|Undo menu option; it will reappear when Undo is
- actually implemented
-
- General release on February 1 1993
-
-
- 0.04.007
- --------
-
- Fixed a bug that caused DDE errors to occur on startup if PFE was invoked with
- file names on the command line
-
- Added a "/k" command line option to allow a key map file to be specified for
- loading at startup in place of pfe.key; this option implies "/m"
-
- Instances started with command line options implying multi-instance mode are no
- longer erroneously activated by a succeeding start without options
-
- Instances started with options implying multi-instance mode no longer update
- the most-recently-used-file list on termination
-
- Added a "/d" option to force the DDE server to be enabled at start-up even if
- options implying multi-instance mode are used
-
- Where multiple printers of the same type are configured on different ports, PFE
- now shows them all in the print-related dialogs instead of only the first
-
- [PFE32] F1 now correctly activates context-specific help in dialogs
-
- When a search operation is initiated from a Find or Replace dialog, the window
- will be redrawn to show the matching string in the second line from the top, to
- try to avoid it being hidden by the dialog box
-
- The function names EditIndent, EditUndent, EditLowercaseSelection,
- EditUppercaseSelection and EditTransposeCharacters have been changed to be
- EditTextIndent, EditTextUndent and so on; key mappings to the old names will
- need to be re-instated
-
- Fixed a bug that could put PFE into a loop when using the Window Next command
- with all edit windows iconic
-
- The most-recently-used-file list can now be up to 64 names long; names not
- shown on the File menu can be selected from a "More Files" dialog
-
- Added a Window Select command, mapped by default to Ctrl+W, to select from many
- open windows; the dialog for this replaces the standard MDI "More Windows" dialog
-
- [PFE32] The DDE service name has been changed to be "PFE32", to separate the
- services of the Windows/16 and Windows/NT versions
-
- Remedied the omission of the Ctrl+X Ctrl+S combination from the list of keys
- that can be mapped
-
- The DDE command EditInsertString has been renamed EditInsert
-
- Fixed bug that would leave a caret in the middle of the Find or Replace dialog
- when a match was found
-
- Mappable functions EditRepeatFind and EditRepeatReplace have been renamed
- EditRepeatLastFind and EditRepeatLastReplace
-
- Added an Options|ResetFile/WindowModes command to reset the modes of the
- current window and the file it shows to those appropriate to the file type
-
- The Printer Font dialog now correctly returns focus to its parent dialog on
- close
-
- Limited release to beta testers 20 January 1993
-
-
- 0.04.006
- --------
-
- Dialogs now show help if F1 is pressed, as well as with their Help buttons
-
- Fixed a bug introduced in 0.04.005 that caused Ctrl+End to leave the caret
- showing beyond the actual end of file
-
- Fixed a bug introduced in 0.04.005 that caused the File Write dialog to be run
- twice
-
- Fixed a bug that would leave bitmaps undeleted on exit if ever child windows
- were closed by double-clicking in their system menu boxes
-
- [PFE32] Scroll bar elevators now work
-
- [PFE32] Child windows can now be closed by double-clicking in their system menu
- boxes
-
- Automatic horizontal scrolling now endeavours to keep the caret as far right in
- a window as possible, which should improve the appearance of searches, word
- wraps and the like
-
- A command line option "/m" now allows you to force a new instance of PFE to
- start even if another is running
-
- Added a "DDE Server" command on the Options menu and equivalent mappable
- functions to allow the DDE server system to be turned on and off at will
-
- Added a DDE data item FileName to return the name of the current file
-
- Added a DDE data item WindowTitle to return the title of the current window
-
- Added a DDE command EditFind to perform string searches
-
- Added DDE Poke items OpenFiles and ViewFiles to allow opening of several files
- in a single operation over a DDE link
-
- The mechanism for passing command line filenames to previously-running
- instances has been rewritten to run asynchronously from the client and pass all
- the filenames in one transaction, rather than in separate commands
-
- The mechanism for pasting data over a DDE Poke link has been rewritten to run
- asynchronously from the client
-
- Limited release to beta testers 10 January 1993
-
-
- 0.04.005
- --------
-
- The status bar has had its intelligence raised, and responds to double-left-
- clicks thus: in the line/column area, it starts an Edit Goto Line dialog; in
- the Read-Only area it toggles read-only mode; in the Recorder status area it
- toggles the recorder on and off; in the Wrap area it toggles line wrap on and
- off; in the insert/overwrite area it toggles between the settings. The only way
- to banish the status bar is now from the Options menu.
-
- The format a file will be saved in (DOS/Unix) is now shown in the status bar,
- and can be altered by double-clicking
-
- The mouse cursor now changes shape to give cues when over the tool bar, over
- the status bar, and over a selection
-
- Fixed a bug introduced in 0.04.004 that caused a UAE loading files in UNIX
- format
-
- The mouse cursor is now hidden when the user starts typing
-
- Drag-and-drop operations are now disabled completely in read-only files
-
- Fixed a bug that caused a UAE when a drag-and-drop area extended over more than
- one line, and the drop target was in the same line as the end point of the
- highlight
-
- Fixed a bug that would cause PFE to loop when replacing all occurrences of end-
- of-line (^n) characters
-
- Fixed a bug whereby the default file name was not set up in the File Save As
- dialog edit control as it should have been
-
- Tool bar buttons are now set correctly if a file is changed from being read-
- only to being writable
-
- If a DOS command with output capture action re-uses an existing output window,
- the caret is now shown in the correct position relative to the new contents
-
- The Execute DOS Command to Window dialog now has an option to position the
- window at the end of the output rather than at the start; this is now the
- default behaviour
-
- On startup PFE now checks whether files in the most-recently-used list of files
- that are on local hard disks still exist, and silently removes them if not
-
- When a drag-and-drop operation is aborted by pressing ESC, the caret is
- returned to the start of the highlighted area and the window redrawn to show it
-
- Added a File Save All command that will save all altered files, store all
- altered templates, and save all altered template files
-
- The "Templates" item on the main menu is now "Template" to match every other
- reference to it
-
- The help file has been completely rewritten and may now even be useful;
- corresponding changes have been made to the Help menu
-
- Dialogs now have Help buttons to give instructions on their use
-
- Dialogs now all have system menu boxes
-
- The File Save command now detects that a window showing DOS command output
- has no associated file name, and turns itself into File Save As
-
-
- 0.04.004
- --------
-
- A Replace All operation no longer misses out a match in a selection
- produced by a previous Replace or FindNext
-
- If the current window is iconic when a Find or a Replace dialog is started,
- the window will be restored before the dialog box is shown
-
- Added an ini file option 'allow-save-always' to allow the File|Save menu
- item and the corresponding tool bar button to function even if the current
- file has not changed
-
- Fixed a bug that erroneously lit the tool bar cut and copy buttons after a
- Find operation with 'select matching text' turned off
-
- Fixed a memory manager bug that could cause data corruption or UAEs in
- complex circumstances most often seen in replace operations in large files
-
- Added an ini file option 'minimize-on-empty' that iconizes the main window
- when the last child window in use is closed
-
- File names shown as the titles of windows are now abbreviated to exclude as
- much as possible of the current directory name
-
- Corrected mis-spelling in status bar help line for the 'Repeat DOS Command'
- toolbar button
-
- PFE now records its state in the ini file correctly if Windows is shut down
- while it is running
-
- When a file name is changed (by File|SaveAs or File|Name) the file and window
- modes now change to match those appropriate to the file type in the new name
-
- The status bar INS/OVR flag is now updated correctly if insert mode is turned
- on or off using the 'Set Current Modes' dialog
-
- Edit|Text|Indent and Edit|Text|Undent functions now allow the current line, or
- all the lines in a selection, to be indented or undented by one tab stop
-
- The Shift+Backspace key combination is now mappable to functions
-
- Automatic text wrapping of lines as they are typed is now implemented
-
- An 'Exit Windows' item has been added to the system menu, permitting Windows to
- be closed down in a variety of exciting ways from within PFE.
-
- When the 'Save Changes' message box is shown on exit from the Key Mapping
- dialog, focus is now correctly restored to the current edit window
-
- The status bar now shows feedback on the progress of load and save operations
-
- Fixed a bug that caused a spurious blank line to be created whenever a file
- being loaded contained a CR-LF byte pair that straddled a storage block
- boundary
-
- Auto-indenting is now carried out if a line is split, or if a newline is
- inserted, when the caret is in the middle of a line as well as at the end
-
- PFE now has a marginally better knowledge of C syntax and handles brace lineup,
- auto-indent and brace matching in a rather more useful way in C language files
-
- Internal re-organisation needed for porting to Windows/NT
-
- Added a way to circumvent a Windows/NT bug that refuses to show fixed-pitch
- fonts in the Choose Font dialogs, affecting both the 16- and 32-bit versions;
- putting 'fix-font-bug=1' in the [options] section of the ini file will show all
- fonts, but attempts to select variable-pitch ones will be rejected [there is no
- plan for PFE to support variable pitch fonts]
-
- The File|Name, File|Write and File|Save dialogs now default the file name to
- that of the current file, if it has one
-
- The File|Open, File|Name, File|Write and File|Save dialogs now independently
- record the filename filter last used, and take that as the default on the next
- invocation
-
- A drag and drop operation can now be aborted by pressing ESCAPE before
- releasing the left mouse button
-
- Up to five user-defined items may now be added to the Help menu, each one
- invoking a specified Windows help file. The menu item Help|WindowsSDK has been
- deleted; you should insert an entry in the [help-files] section of the ini file
- to access it.
-
- Limited release to beta testers 21 December 1992
-
-
-
- 0.04.003
- --------
-
- The tool bar buttons are now maintained at approximately the same physical
- size on all screen resolutions
-
- Changed the way child windows are opened maximized for a better visual
- appearance, avoiding a transient restored state
-
- Files can be mailed using MAPI-compliant mail systems
-
- The way that the termination of DOS commands is detected has been changed,
- and no longer calls GetModuleUsage with an invalid module handle
-
- The menu item for "Repeat DOS Command", and the "Run DOS Command" toolbar
- button, are now disabled while a DOS command is running
-
- Search and Replace operations now use the common dialogs. To be consistent,
- "Search" has been changed to "Find" in menus and command names
-
- The file name is now shown in the print Abort dialog, and a faulty call to
- SetDlgItemText with an invalid control handle corrected
-
- Fixed a bug that caused a UAE if a strictly empty file was loaded and
- a character was typed (this would happen if PFE was used as the editor for
- WinQVT/net's POP mailer)
-
- The cursor now changes to an hourglass when cutting or deleting a selection
-
- The format of the [modes] section of the ini file has changed slightly. Soft
- tabs are no longer recorded as a -ve tab size, but as a positive value with
- a bit flag in the window modes word. Versions of PFE from here on will accept
- the old format on startup, but write the new one
-
- Auto-indenting now inserts the relevant number of spaces instead of a single
- tab character if the window is set to use soft tabs
-
- Fixed a bug that caused a non-ANSI screen font selected in one session to
- be incorrectly selected on subsequent sessions
-
-
- 0.04.002
- --------
-
- The "file changed" marker in the status bar has been changed from "C" to "#"
- to avoid confusion with language types
-
- Added a standard key mapping Ctrl+Shift+O to invoke EditSplitLine
-
- Fixed random return value from routine that detected a second PFE instance
-
- Characters with ASCII values > 127 are now printed correctly as ANSI characters
- rather than as digraphs
-
- Extending a selection generated by a successful search no longer causes a UAE
-
- It is now possible to set the screen font and printer font to non-ANSI as well
- as ANSI fonts
-
- The most-recently-used-file list is no longer erroneously appended to the
- system menu instead of the File menu if the MDI child is started maximized
-
- Files specified on the command line with names beginning '\' are now handled
- correctly
-
- Search-and-replace no longer disregards the 'read-only' status of a file
-
- The filter for "*.exe" files in the Browse sub-dialog of the "Configure
- Windows Tools" dialog now works correctly
-
- Fixed a bug whereby some files would not be saved on exit or from a
- File|CloseAll operation if some altered files were untitled
-
- General release as the second beta version on 3 November 1992
-
-
- 0.04.001
- --------
-
- Improved scrolling behaviour when dragging a selection with a mouse and
- fixed several bugs that caused the selection to freeze
-
- Fixed a bug introduced in 0.03.036 that stopped drag-and-drop copy from
- working
-
- Fixed some UAEs when scrolling with PageUp when the caret is in the top line
- of the screen, with less than one window's worth of lines above it
-
- Fixed inaccurate scrolling down by pages when less than one window's worth
- of lines remained below the window and the bottom line of the window was
- not one full row in height
-
- If PFE is terminated when the tool bar is a floating window, it will now
- restart with the tool bar as a floating window
-
- Making PFE iconic when the tool bar is floating no longer erroneously changes
- it to a bar on the right hand border
-
- The way PFE locates the Windows SDK helpfile for the Help|SDK function has been
- made more sensible. If the [options] section of the ini file contains a
- 'sdk-helpfile' key, the name given is used; if not, PFE looks for first
- "win31wh.hlp" and then "sdkwin.hlp" on the PATH and uses the first one found.
-
- Limited release to beta testers for validation as the possible beta 2 version
- on 19/10/92
-
-
-
- 0.03.036
- --------
-
- When configuring the first tool in the Configure Windows Tools dialog, the
- Add button now correctly becomes active as soon as something is typed in
- the Command Line edit control
-
- The default mapping of Ctrl-P to File|Print is now shown on the menu
-
- Fixed a bug whereby, if PFE was maximized, made iconic, and closed from the
- icon's system menu, it would restart restored rather than maximized
-
- Added an ini file setting "start-maximized" to the [options] section, which
- controls whether PFE starts maximized, overriding the saved state at last
- closedown
-
- Shift-PgUp and Shift-PgDn no longer cause UAEs or select the wrong sections of
- text
-
- Added an ini file [options] setting "track-vertical-thumbtack" that controls
- whether PFE scrolls to follow vertical thumbtack dragging
-
- PFE now leaves selected text highlighted after it is copied to the clipboard.
- An ini file [options] setting can specify that highlighting is to be removed
-
- Key names in menus and the Key Mapping dialog now use '+' rather than '-'
- to link components, to be CUA compliant
-
- The Settings menu has been renamed Options
-
- Corrected a bug in the command line parser that would cause DDE commands and
- ini file lines whose last argument was in quotes to be mis-parsed
-
- Added a most-recently-used files list to the File menus
-
- Added a menu option and tool bar action to repeat the last DOS command run
-
- Corrected PgUp and PgDn and scroll bar page moves when caret is not within the
- window
-
- The default setting for the 'auto-unix' key in the [options] section of the
- ini file is now 1, so that UNIX files will save in UNIX format by default
-
- The Browse Application dialog started from the Browse button in the Configure
- Windows Tools now uses a filter showing only "*.exe" files
-
-
- 0.03.035
- --------
-
- Improved icons
-
- Some development code that was accidentally left active and caused a UAE
- when Ctrl-Z was pressed for an Undo has been removed; undo actions are not
- yet supported
-
- Fixed a bug that prevented disabling only a subset of the possible prefix
- keys
-
- Dragging the mouse to extend a selection should no longer leave a caret trail
- on slower machines
-
- Windows are now scrolled to track movements of the thumbtack in the vertical
- scroll bar
-
- All references to "Development Tools" in menus and functions have changed to
- use "Windows Tools", to clarify the intended use of the facilities
-
- Details of the actual command line used and working directory are now stored
- for all Windows Tools between sessions, and not solely for the last one
- used
-
- Limited release to beta testers 05/10/92
-
-
-
- 0.03.034
- --------
-
- When a window is duplicated, the second copy's scroll bars are now set
- correctly
-
- Fixed a bug whereby, if a window lost focus when its caret had been scrolled
- out of view, the caret would be wrongly placed when the window regained
- focus
-
- The tool bar is now disabled when PFE is waiting for the second key of a
- two-character command sequence
-
- If the left button is pressed in the tool bar, and the mouse is moved out of
- the tool bar before it is released, focus is now correctly restored to the
- current window
-
- If the left button is pressed in a tool bar button and the mouse then moved
- off the button, the button will return to its down state should the mouse
- move back onto it
-
- When dragging the tool bar from a border, the state will now not change
- unless the mouse cursor is outside the tool bar when the left button is
- released
-
- A 1-pixel gap between the area showing line numbers and the area showing the
- text in a window has been eliminated
-
- Ctrl-K can now be used as a prefix key
-
- The prefix keys ESC, Ctrl-B, Ctrl-F, Ctrl-K and Ctrl-X can individually be
- enabled and disabled from a sub-dialog of the key mapping dialog. When
- disabled as a prefix key, each of them can be mapped to a function as required.
- By default they are all disabled, and the hard-coded key mappings are now fully
- CUA-compliant. As a result the format of .key files has changed
-
- Pressing TAB when no file is open no longer causes a UAE
-
- Page Down now does nothing if the final line of the file is visible in the
- window
-
- Added a File|Name menu item and equivalent DDE command that allows the file name
- associated with a window to be changed without writing any data to a disk
-
- The EditPageUp and EditPageDown functions have been redesigned to maintain the
- caret in the same screen row, and to keep a memory of the caret column. This
- means that a page down followed by a page up returns to exactly the starting
- position
-
- Vertical scrolling using the scroll bar now does not move the caret within the
- file, but moves it with the text
-
- Selections are no longer removed when the data is scrolled using the vertical
- thumbtack
-
- Functions EditShowNextLine, EditShowPreviousLine, EditShowNextPage and
- EditShowPreviousPage have been added to give keyboard equivalents of vertical
- scroll bar actions
-
- Menu items File|Open, File|New and File|Print are now bound by default to Ctrl-O,
- Ctrl-N and Ctrl-P as recommended in the CUA
-
- Pressing a key that is not mapped no longer causes the window to scroll to
- show the caret if this is not initially visible
-
-
-
- 0.03.033
- --------
-
- Fixed a bug whereby directories whose names were a single letter or '.' were
- not accepted in the Working Directory controls of the DOS Command and Launch
- Tool dialogs
-
- Scroll bars no longer respond to the first mouse click if their window is
- inactive; the click simply activates the window without disturbing its state
-
- The caret now follows the mouse cursor in a somewhat more friendly fashion
- when dragging with the left mouse button down
-
- The File Print dialog now allows line numbering, line wrapping and page header
- options to be specified. The corresponding window mode values are now the
- default settings for the dialog rather than the active settings
-
- An initialisation file option now allows new windows to be created always
- restored; always maximized; or maximized if and only if an existing window is
- also maximized. These options can also be made conditional on the main window
- being maximized too.
-
- ESCAPE now closes the About dialog box
-
- The vertical elevator is now correctly positioned after a search or a
- Window|CentreCaret operation
-
- The ini file and keymap files are now found correctly if the Windows directory
- is in a JOINed or mounted directory that appears as the root directory of a
- drive
-
- Printer font selection now uses the Font common dialog
-
- Filenames are now correctly set in the document title used by Print Manager
- when a file is printed
-
- Window titles for unnamed files, unnamed templates and command output have been
- redesigned; the title for an unnamed template and a command output window now
- includes a sequence number
-
- PFE no longer beeps to warn of an impossible scroll request (e.g. scrolling
- up a line when already in the top line)
-
- The Template|SaveFile and Template|Store menu items no longer both have 'S'
- as their hot key
-
- The Template|SaveFile menu item now has an ellipsis to show a dialog will be
- run
-
- The File menu has been re-arranged for better CUA compliance
-
- The top and bottom margin checkboxes are no longer confused in the Print
- Setup dialog
-
-
-
- 0.03.032
- --------
-
- Changing file and window modes with the Settings|CurrentSettings dialog no
- longer erroneously lights the toolbar Cut button
-
- Files can now be loaded and saved in UNIX format, using LF as a line terminator
-
- Clipboard data in excess of 64K is now handled correctly
-
- The File Open and File View dialogs now allow multiple files to be selected
-
- Wildcarded file names can now be given both on the command line and in the
- DDE commands FileOpen and FileView
-
- Fixed a bug in which an invalid window handle was passed to IsIconic on
- startup, which was trapped by the debugging kernel
-
- Captured output from DOS commands can now be shown in an existing Command
- Output window as an alternative to creating a new window
-
- Windows can now be tiled in a custom vertical pattern that maximizes their
- width
-
- A new function FileAbandon and corresponding DDE command allows a changed file
- to be closed with the changes discarded
-
-
-
- 0.03.031
- --------
-
- Cursor resource memory is now properly freed after the toolbar has been
- dragged with the multi-headed-arrow cursor
-
- Text drag-and-drop is now implemented
-
- When a window is duplicated, the copy now correctly inherits the text colours
- and language type of the parent
-
- Fixed a bug whereby a non-stock font would not be deleted on termination
-
-
- 0.03.030
- --------
-
- If an invalid line number is entered as the target in the Goto Line dialog,
- focus is now set back to the control after the error message is shown
-
- Menu items to select the fixed pitch ANSI, OEM and SYSTEM fonts have been added
-
- The "Free Key" and "Free All Keys" buttons in the Key Mapping dialog have been
- renamed to "Unmap Key" and "Unmap All"
-
- Selecting Window|Next when all windows are iconic now restores the current
- window rather than entering an infinite loop
-
- The Status Bar now uses the Windows variable-pitch ANSI font
-
- Added an Edit|SelectAll menu item to select an entire file
-
- Maximized MDI child windows can now be closed by double-clicking in the
- system menu box
-
- The "goto start of file" and "goto end of file" operations are now by default
- invoked by Ctrl-Home and Ctrl-End rather than Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDn, to
- be in line with standard Windows practice
-
- Selected text is now displayed in the correct text and background colours as
- set up from the Control Panel
-
- If the current window is set to have a language type of "C", Edit|SelectWord
- treats an underscore character as alphanumeric, so that identifiers such as
- WM_CREATE can be selected as a single entity
-
- Fixed a nasty memory manager bug that could cause a UAE inserting a newline
- after a line deletion in very complicated circumstances to do with the fact
- that line control blocks are held in groups of 1024
-
- The vertical thumbtack is now set more sensibly, reflecting the line number
- of the line at the top of the window
-
- Positioning within a file containing more than 65535 lines by moving the
- vertical thumbtack now works correctly
-
- Tabstop ordering in the Print Setup dialog has been made sensible
-
- Limited release to beta testers 19/08/92
-
-
- 0.03.029
- --------
-
- Selecting text with a mouse has been enhanced. Holding SHIFT down while clicking
- the left button will select between the caret and the mouse cursor, or will
- extend an existing selection
-
- The Window|Widen menu option will now restore iconic or maximized windows before
- resizing them
-
- Shift+click on the "Toggle Keyboard Recorder" toolbar button now replays the
- keyboard recording
-
- The 'Save File' toolbar button now invokes the TemplateStore function if the
- current window contains a template. The button state now correctly reflects the
- change state of template windows
-
- The caret now changes size to indicate whether a window is in insert or overwrite
- mode
-
- Selecting a word by double-clicking the mouse or using Edit|SelectWord no
- longer selects white space to the right of the word
-
- Fixed a bug whereby, after doing a Window|Tile, the wrong window would respond
- to keyboard input and scroll bar actions
-
- Fixed a bug which would sometimes cause File|Insert not to close the file that
- was inserted
-
-
-
- 0.03.028
- --------
-
- The font used in edit windows may now be selected from all the available
- fixed pitch ANSI screen fonts
-
- The 'search' dialog now permits you to specify whether the matching string
- is to be selected or not (the default is settable in the ini file). The
- dialog also allows you to choose to extend the selection from the initial
- caret position to the matching string
-
- All dialogs have been redesigned to use 8pt MS Sans Serif text instead of
- 10pt System
-
- The algorithm for positioning the caret in the text when the left mouse
- button is clicked has been improved: clicking in the left half of a
- character cell places the caret to the left of that character, and clicking
- in the right half places it to the right
-
- The "Key Mapping" dialog now permits a key to be remapped from one function to
- another with a single button click, instead of needing first to free it and
- then map it to the target function
-
- The "Free All Keys" button in the "Key Mapping" dialog now requests
- confirmation before proceeding
-
-
-
- 0.03.027
- --------
-
- Minor internal changes to make the source compatible with MSC 7.0
-
- The Edit|Text|Uppercase and Edit|Text|Lowercase functions now correctly
- mark the file as being changed. They also produce an error if used
- on a read-only file. Both now handle characters with ASCII codes > 127
- properly; note, though, that neither these, nor anything else in PFE,
- will work with Kanji or other languages using 2-byte codes
-
-
-
- 0.03.026
- --------
-
- Altered files can now be saved to disk automatically before running a
- DOS command or launching an application or a development tool
-
- The details of the last-used DOS command, application or development tool
- are now remembered between PFE sessions. The details of the last used
- development tool are also shown as the default each time the dialog is
- started
-
- The Run DOS Command dialog box now has a Browse button
-
-
-
- 0.03.025
- --------
-
- Extra functions are now available from the toolbar by using the SHIFT and
- CONTROL keys in combination with the left mouse button. See the help file
- for details.
-
- The "Window" menu item on the menu bar has been moved to be the last apart
- from "Help", to match the standard menu layout for MDI applications
-
- Windows may now be set to use "soft tabs": tabs will be inserted
- as an appropriate number of spaces rather than as single 0x09 characters
-
- The "Insert Template" toolbar button is now correctly set as template files
- are attached and detached
-
- The TemplateInsert, TemplateEdit, TemplateStore and TemplateStoreAs functions
- no longer cause UAEs if no template file is attached
-
- Files that have the "read only" attribute set are opened in read-only mode,
- regardless of the "read only" button state in the File Open dialog
-
- Characters with ASCII codes from 128-255 can now be inserted from the
- keyboard
-
-
- 0.03.024
- --------
-
- Many of the functions shown in the Key Mapping dialog, and the
- equivalent DDE commands, have been renamed. They now correspond better
- to the menus where they are held (or would be held)
-
- A bug whereby a DDE Poke operation received DDE_FACK on a fail and
- DDE_FNOTPROCESSED on successful termination has been cleared
-
- A successful search now sets the toolbar cut and paste buttons correctly
-
- Several new DDE commands and enquiries added
-
- The syntax of the DDE commands CaretLeft(), CaretLeftWord(), CaretRight()
- and CaretRightWord() is now changed so that each takes two mandatory
- arguments. The first is the count of the number of characters or words
- to move, and the second is 1 to extend a selection and 0 not to do so
-
- To avoid confusion over what it is, the support module PFEDOS.EXE, which
- is used by PFE to handle output redirection in DOS commands, has been renamed
- $PFEDOS.EXE, which hopefully looks less like a DOS version of PFE. The
- associated PIF file is now called $PFEDOS.PIF to match
-
- Using selection-extend keys like Shift-Left after marking a selection with
- the mouse now has the desired effect. Other minor bugs when moving the
- caret with Shift down to extend selection have been cleared
-
- Caret movement keys can now be remapped. This has required an incompatible
- change in the format of key mapping files, so that files saved with
- earlier releases of PFE cannot be used
-
- The semantics of the default PgUp and PgDn mapping is slightly altered; if
- line 1 is at the top of the window, PgUp moves to the start of the file, and
- if the last line is at the top of the window, PdDn moves to the end of file.
-
- Shift-PgUp and Shift-PgDn are now mapped to page up/down moves that extend
- the selection
-
- To be compatible with standard MDI practice, Shift-F4 now maps to
- WindowTile by default, and Shift-F5 to WindowCascade. TemplateInsertMarker
- has moved to F6, and CaretCentre to Ctrl-F5
-
- The Goto Line dialog has been enhanced to allow optional extending of
- a selection
-
- ^T is now accepted as meaning TAB in a search or replace string, as well
- as ^t
-
-
-
- 0.03.020
- --------
-
- Released as the Beta 1 version of PFE 28/07/92
-
-
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- Thanks to all the beta testers whose bug reports, comments and suggestions
- have gone towards the development of PFE
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