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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
  [WIN98]  : item is specific to the 32-bit edition under Windows 98
  [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


1.01.000
--------

[PFE32] Fixed bug appearing in Windows 95 and Windows 98 where closing the
Control Station by clicking on the "Close" system menu box would leave the
window visible but inaccessible

Fixed bug causing a GPF if a macro library containing bound macros could not be
opened when PFE was started


1.00.000
--------

[PFE32] Added the new Control Station facility, controlled by the "Control
Station" item on the Options menu, that provides a floating remote control
window, making managing large numbers of files and windows, and large MRU
lists, much easier

[PFE32] The Options Preferences "Associations" panel now rejects attempts to
associate the ".lnk", ".bat" and ".exe" extension with PFE under NT 4 or Windows 95,
as this would break the system's handling of shortcuts and programs

Fixed bug causing the load progress indicator to draw incorrectly when loading
files in excess of about 40 megabytes

Fixed bug causing command substitutions %f, %n and %e to fail for files opened
from the root directory of a drive or share

Fixed bug causing files specified by UNCName not to be correctly identified as
network files, and to suffer problems in checks for changes

Fixed bug causing PFE erroneously to believe that network files have been
altered by some other application when saving back to them

The line number field in the status bar has been widened to cater for files
with more than 1 million lines

PFE no longer generates explicit beep sounds in message boxes; selection of
sound on message classes is now left to the user via the Windows control panel

The WindowIconizeAll and WindowRestoreAll commands now work correctly from
within macros

[PFE32] Fixed bug causing PFE32 to crash when editing a large file if it's
changed by another application and PFE is told to reload it; the bug will also
have caused some crashes editing smaller files after they have been reloaded

The "*" change indicator in the caption of file windows is now removed if a
file is edited, changed on disk by some other application, and then reloaded

[PFE16] Fixed bug causing the toolbar undo button not to be lit as it should
when switching between files

PFE now checks the read-only attribute of disk files as well as the last-
written time and size when determining if another application has changed them.
The Options Preferences "File Change Checks" panel can be used to disable this
if required

Added a Window Previous command, mapped to Ctrl+Shift+F6 by default, that moves
between windows in the opposite order to the Window Next command

The Options Preferences "Window Control" panel can now specify that the Window
Next and Window Previous commands should activate any iconic window that is
next in the list, instead of operating only on non-iconic windows

[PFE32] Fixed bug that caused the caret to disappear from an edit window and
keys to be ignored when the IntelliMouse 2.2 driver was used in Universal
Scrolling mode

Fixed bug causing print dialog settings to be ignored when using PFE with the
"/p" option for autoprinting

Fixed incorrect alphabetical ordering of functions in the Options Key Mapping
dialog

Fixed bug causing PFE to hang in Edit|Repeat Last Find or Edit|Repeat Last
Replace commands in some circumstances

Fixed bug causing the printer font to be altered in the File Page Setup dialog
even if Cancel is pressed in the selection dialog

Fixed bug that allowed the Macro|Play Recording command to be recorded directly
into the active keyboard recording, causing subsequent inconsistencies

Fixed bug causing the stack of replace strings stored in the Replace dialog to
become corrupt when an empty replace string was specified


0.07.002
--------

Improved the user interface in the File Filters panel and User Help File panel
of the Options Preferences dialog

Improved the user interface for creating Mode Groups in the Options Default
Modes dialog

Added ability to print files with two pages to each sheet of paper. The printer
font dialog now allows font sizes down to 2 points to be selected for this.

[PFE16] Fixed bug whereby the Execute DOS Command To Window command would run
the target command in the wrong directory if the target was specified with a
drive letter

Fixed bug causing the Edit function of the "User Help Files" panel of the
Options Preferences dialog to always edit the first defined help file,
whichever entry in the list was selected

The shading behind the headers output on print pages can now be suppressed via
the File Page Setup dialog on a per-printer basis

[PFE16] Fixed bug causing valid filenames to be rejected in some dialogs and to
be replaced with random characters

[PFE16] Fixed bug causing applications started by the Exec Launch Application
commmand to run in the wrong working directory if the directory was specified
with a drive letter

[PFE32] Added basic support for the Microsoft Intellimouse under Windows 95 and
Windows NT

[PFE32] Fixed bug causing the import of a registry configuration file to fail

[PFE32] Fixed bug causing some long file names set as Help menu items not to be
recorded correctly

Components of the current file name can now be substituted into the working
directory paths specified in the dialogs started by the Execute DOS Command To
Window and Execute Launch Application commands, and in commands added to the
Execute menu from the Options Preferences "Execute menu" panel.

New subsitution points have been added for the above commands; '%o' substitutes
the name of the directory owning the one containing the current file, and '%s'
substitutes a single '\' if and only if the preceding character in the string
being built is not a '\'

When writing a file to disk, PFE now checks whether any existing file of the
desired name is marked as read only, and if so offers you the chance to
override this or to abandon the write operation

The dialog started by the File Change Directory command now allows direct entry
of the directory path as well as browsing, and maintains a stack of the last 8
directories visited

PFE can now be set to check for changes made by other applications to files
held on network drives as well as those on the local hard disks, configurable
by a new "File Change Checks" panel in the Options Preferences dialog

When saving a file with File Save As or changing its name with File Name, the
Unix/DOS file format mode setting is now not taken from the modes defined to
match the new name with Options Default Modes, but instead is retained in its
original value

[PFE16] Fixed bug that caused the /i command line option to have no effect

Fixed bug causing a system error message to be shown if a command output
window was made read-only, altered and then closed without an explicit save
being made

The list of file types indicating a file to be binary has been reduced to avoid
clashes with various applications, and the check can be disabled in the
"Editing Files" panel of the Options Preferences command if required

Fixed bug causing GPF or heap validation error when saving an edit made to the
active keyboard recording


0.07.001
--------

Added ability to save the keyboard macro recorded from typing, and added a
macro library facility to support multiple concurrent macros

[PFE32] Filename captions for iconised windows are now set to be only the file
title rather than a full pathname; a tooltip window shows the full pathname if
the mouse cursor is allowed to dwell on the icon

Fixed bug causing the caret position to go wrong when replaying a macro that
included typing sequences and vertical caret movements

Smarter look to print page headers and print line numbering

The status bar sizing grip is removed when the main window is maximized

[PFE32] The 32-bit Edition now stores all configuration data in the registry on
a per-user basis in user-choosable "configuration sets". A utility program
ini2reg.exe is supplied in the distribution set to convert ini files into the
new registry data format

Filenames recorded in the MRU section of the ini file or registry are now
quoted, avoiding failures with some legal long file names

Directory names recorded with DOS command lines or application command lines
are now quoted, avoiding failures with some legal long file names

Added a "smart tabbing" facility. Shift+TAB is now bound by default to
EditTextUndent to move selected text one tabstop left. By default, the
EditInsertTab function (normally bound to the TAB key) inserts a TAB character
as before; when "smart tabbing" is selected from the Options Preferences
"Editing Files" panel, it will shift text one tab stop right if there is
a highlight

The most-recently-used files list is now saved to the ini file or registry
always, even if PFE starts in multi-instance mode. The previous behaviour,
where the list is saved only in single-instance mode, can be set from the
Options Preferences "General" panel

Highlights now indicate the virtual 'end of line' character at the ends of
lines; some inaccuracies in highlighting have been corrected

The list of most-recently-used files can now be cleared from the Options
Preferences "MRU List" panel

The File Print All command, and automatic printing of command line files,
can now be set by an option in the Options Preferences "General Options" panel
to print all files in a single spooler document, saving on separator pages when
printing to a server

Fixed bug making PFE ignore the "Run Minimized" Program Manager setting if the
last session ended maximized; however PFE will not start iconically if there
are command line files

Files can now be associated with PFE via a new "Associations" panel in the
dialog started by Options Preferences

Fixed bug causing the toolbar save button to remain lit if a file has been
edited, is then changed by another application, and the user chooses to reload
the disk version

Fixed bug where the Find and Replace dialogs could use the wrong strings, if
a different-case form of the same string had been used previously

Fixed bug causing the CaretEndOfFile command (Ctrl+End) not to move to the end
of the last line of the file if the caret is already within this line

[PFE32] Print headers now show time from the correct local timezone

F9 is now mapped by default to TemplateInsert as the help file claims

Fixed bug causing undo to be inaccurate or produce error messages when the
current window modes include "strip trailing spaces" or "auto-indent"

Fixed bug causing the anchor point of a highlight to be incorrect when
selecting text from the keyboard

Scroll speed when extending a selection with the mouse outside an edit window
has been improved

More modern appearance to toolbar buttons

Handling of clicks of the right mouse button in edit windows has been enhanced
and now shows a menu of common actions. Context help is no longer available
with a double right click but can be obtained from the menu

The Template Insert dialog now starts with the focus in the list of templates,
rather than in the list of template files, for more convenient use from the
keyboard

Toolbar help is now presented in a friendlier way, with status bar messages
showing as the mouse dwells on the buttons rather than only when the buttons
are clicked

[PFE32] Fixed undesirable behaviour which would cause a floating toolbar to
spontaneously anchor itself to a frame window edge when it was moved with full
drag selected in Control Panel

[PFE32] The "no-go" cursor shown when the mouse is over the line number section
of an edit window now uses the system's current standard "no-go" image

[PFE32] Fixed bug causing file opening to fail if a file name supplied on the
command line or via a DDE link was wildcarded, and any of the names that it
expanded to contained spaces

The caption in edit windows now contains an indicator to show if the file has
been changed

[PFE32] Filenames supplied in 'mangled' 8.3 format are now converted to their
long form automatically. This specifically affects opening files from the old-
style common dialogs with multiple section active, and dropping files from
Explorer onto desktop shortcuts

By default the File Open and File View commands no longer change the working
directory; a new command File Change Directory has been added to allow easier
management of this. The dialogs can be set to use the old behaviour from the
Options Preferences "General Options" panel

Fixed bug that would cause the caret to become invisible in an edit window if a
key was pressed while the left mouse button was held down

The Execute Launch Application and Execute Windows Tool dialogs now allow
substitution of the filename in the current window into the command lines in
the same way as for the Execute DOS Command To Window dialog

The various File Print dialogs no longer treat the absence of a defined system
default printer as a fatal error

[PFE32] Under Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.0, the 32-Bit Edition now correctly
translates shortcuts into the names of the files referred to when they are
opened

Fixed bug causing the name of the backup file to be generated by truncating the
original name at an internal dot, rather than at the one before the file type

The File Print All command now prints files in alphabetical order of the file
name or window caption

The Execute DOS Command To Window, Execute Launch Application and Execute
Windows Tool dialogs now allow the current file line number and column number
to be substituted in commands as %l (el) and %c respectively

The 16-Bit Edition, and the 32-Bit Edition under Windows NT 3.51, now show more
file filters in the "List Files of Type" box in file opening dialogs

Added a File Change To File's Directory command on the main menu and right-
click context menu to automatically change directory to the one containing the
current file

The Options Preferences "MRU List" panel now contains an option to specify that
the current directory should be changed whenever a file is opened from the MRU
list in the File menu

Fixed bug causing the caret to vanish if actions in the Execute Configure
Windows Tools dialog generated message boxes

If a non-existent file is named on the command line for editing, PFE will now
prompt and give the option for it to be created as an empty file and edited

Added a Window Restore All command to restore all icons into windows in a
single operation

Fixed bug causing a DBWIN error to be logged using debug mode Windows when the
Edit Text Insert ASCII Code is used

Fixed bug causing a reverse find operation on a single character target string
to stick at the first match

Fixed bug causing the "Add Ctrl+Z At End" file save option checkbox to get out
of state in the Options Current Modes dialog

[PFE32] Fixed bug causing spurious messages about the disk copy of a file being
changed to appear if a file dragged&dropped onto PFE could not be opened for
any reason

Fixed bug causing cursor and other keys to stop working if activation is taken
away from PFE using Ctrl+AltGR+Del or Ctrl+RightAlt+Del or RightAlt+Tab

Fixed bug causing wildcard pattern matching of filenames in mode groups to fail
if the test filename contained multiple dots

[PFE32] The Execute Windows Explorer command now starts Explorer in the current
working directory rather that at the system root level

[NT] The Execute Task Manager command is now available under Windows NT 4.0

Command lines containing quotes should now be handled correctly by the Execute
DOS Command To Window and Execute Launch Application commands

The command processor used by the Execute DOS Command To Window command can now
be set in the Options Preferences "Command Processor" command. You can specify
the path to an executable and additional options, for example to select a non-
default environment size

[PFE32] When the selected backup mode is to use a file with a specific
extension (by default ".$$$") the 32-Bit Edition will now append this to the
existing name, rather than replacing any previous extension; the old behaviour
can be selected from the "Backup" panel of the Options Preferences command

[PFE32] When the File Save As command is used and the name of an existing file
is typed rather than selected from the dialog, PFE now preserves the existing
capitalisation

The Execute Configure Windows Tools and Execute Launch Windows Tools commands,
and all the associated functionality, have been removed. The Execute Menu is
now configurable via the Options Preferences command's "Execute Menu" panel,
providing the ability to associate commands of your choice (whether independent
processes or involving output capture) with the menu items of your choice

Fixed bug where the case of commands executed in the Execute DOS Command To
Window and Execute Launch Application dialogs would not be respected if an
earlier string with different capitalisation had been used

[PFE32] Fixed bug causing the PFE main window not to appear when run for the
first time on Windows 95 or Windows NT 4 for the first time, with certain
specific properties set for the task bar

Added a "Working Directory" panel to the Options Preferences dialog, allowing
the initial directory that PFE starts in to be either the one specified by the
shortcut or ProgMan icon that starts it; or the one the last session was using
when it ended; or a fixed, user-specified path

Fixed bug causing window colours to be set wrongly when File Save As or
File Name changes a file name, and the resulting window should use control-
panel default colours

Fixed bug causing the "Wrap long lines when printing" option set in Options
Curent Modes and Options Default Modes not to be applied

Fixed bug causing the Copy and Cut toolbar buttons not to be enabled by the
Edit Text Match Brace Select and Edit Text Widen Brace Select commands

Added File Open Selection command, which treats the current selection as a
filename and attempts to open it for editing

Fixed bug causing the "Save clears undo actions" option set in the Options
Preferences "Saving Files" panel not be to be remembered across sessions

Fixed bug causing the DDE command CaretHome() to always have no effect and
return a fail code

Fixed bug causing the Undo toolbar button and menu item not to be set correctly
when moving between windows

General release 27 March 1997

0.06.002
--------

Added Edit Text Reformat and Edit Text ReformatParagraph commands to reformat
existing text to the current wrap margin

[NT] Many changes to handle long file names with embedded spaces when using the
old style common dialogs. To overcome deficiencies in Windows when using the
File Open and File View dialogs, by default only one file can now be opened at
a time, in which mode all long file names are handled correctly. The Options
Preferences "General Options" panel allows the dialogs to be set for multiple
selection, at the cost of having long file names containing spaces appear as
8.3 names

Fixed bug causing the options list box in the Options Preferences dialog to
cover the buttons below with some displays

Fixed bug which caused some sizes of some screen fonts to be remembered
incorrectly between sessions

Fixed bug which caused some printer fonts to be remembered incorrectly between
sessions

Fixed bug preventing the Options Key Mapping command being used from a mapped
keyboard key

[PFE32] Print Setup now works correctly under Windows 95 and Win32s. The
printing dialogs' appearances have changed slightly

[PFE32] Under Windows 95 and Windows NT with the new user-interface shell, all
dialogs now have the correct new-style appearance with non-bold fonts

[PFE32] Under Windows 95 and Windows NT with the new user-interface shell, the
Explorer dialogs are now used for all file open and save operations

[PFE32] General improvements to appearance under Windows 95 and the new-style
Windows NT shell

The status bar now includes a sizing grip in the bottom right corner of the
main window

Fixed bug restricting the wrap column specified in the Options Current Modes
and Options Default Modes "Text Formatting" panel to 2 digits

Added command Execute Explorer to run the Windows 95 Explorer; this
functionality is available in both the 16-bit and 32-bit editions when run on a
system with the Windows 95 user interface

To follow Windows 95 practice, a right mouse click in the application workspace
area now brings up a menu of common actions rather than directly opening a file

The printing system and the associated user interfaces have been extensively
reworked to cure bugs, function reliably under Windows 95 and Win32s, and to
operate more in line with other Windows applications:
  - The common print dialogs are now used instead of custom ones
  - Page margin selection and font selection are now handled by a new
    File Page Setup command rather than from the File Print Setup
    dialog
  - Each session of PFE now uses the system default printer initially;
    however page setup and font details are still recorded for each
    printer used

[PFE32] Printing should now work reliably under Win32s

[WIN95] Printing should now work reliably under Windows 95

[NT] Fixed a bug preventing printing to some network devices whose descriptions
contained spaces

Toolbar button clicks and status bar clicks are now recorded in keyboard macros

The capacity of a keyboard recording has been substantially increased

Execution of keyboard recordings can now be interrupted by pressing Escape

Fixed bug causing GPF when the clipboard viewer chain was changed by another
application; most noticeable under Windows 95 when using the Font Browser from
Control Panel

Added command line option '/p' to automatically print all files named on the
command line and exit. Note that file names containing spaces need to be
enclosed in quotes; a suitable command to associate with a file type would be
         pfe32 /p "%1"
or       pfe /p %1

Fixed various bugs causing GPFs when printing files whose pathnames contain
long final component

Added File Print All command to print all open files in one operation

Added DDE commands FilePrint() and FilePrintAll()

[PFE32] Fixed bug causing the main window to be created slightly displaced from
its last closing position if the taskbar was set to be always on top and not
automatically hidden on Windows 95 and Windows NT with the new shell

[NT-PPC] 3D effects in dialogs are now supported

To avoid problems when distributing PFE as separate files on CDROM, the helper
modules $pfedos.exe and $pfeds32.exe, which handle the Execute DOS Command To
Window command, are now called pfedos.exe and pfedos32.exe respectively

[WIN95] The pfedos32.exe helper module has been redesigned to work around some
Windows 95 bugs affecting communication between processes which can cause the
display window, and in some cases the entire system, to lock up

Added DDE POKE items FileOpenEx and FileViewEx, which have the same
functionality as the previous FileOpen and FileView items, but use a new data
format supporting long file names containing spaces. New applications should
use the new items in preference to the old ones.

Fixed bug causing some options in the Window Control panel of the Options
Preferences dialog to be switched in effect

General release October 17 1995


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

[General release 31 March 1995]

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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