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Features * Use all available Windows memory to load up to 16MB of text files. * Multiple Document Interface allows an unlimited number of document windows. * Run your favorite compiler or other programming tool from within WinEdit. WinEdit will monitor the compiler's output and allow you to review any warning or error messages. * Regular expressions can be used in search and replace operations for powerful text manipulation capabilities. * Full access to the Windows SDK help and C 6.0 language help by clicking on any SDK or C language key word. (Requires the Windows help file SDKWIN.HLP provided with the Microsoft SDK and Microsoft QuickHelp provided with Microsoft C 6.0.) * Print half sized "two-up" pages side by side in landscape mode - ideal for source listings or early drafts of desktop publishing documents. * Headers and footers. WinEdit can optionally place the document name, date, and time in the header or footer of any printout. * Easy to use. Online help is always available. All major program features are available through the pulldown menus and dialog boxes. Most-used features have accelerator keys as well for lightning fast operation. * Fast. One of WinEdit's design goals is speed in all critical operations. WinEdit loads large files quickly, updates and scrolls the screen instantly, and keeps up with the fastest typist. GETTING STARTED Installing WinEdit Winedit requires two files to run: WINEDIT.EXE and WE_MACRO.DLL. Copy these files to a directory on your path, and you can start. You should also copy the WinHelp file, WINEDIT.HLP, to the same directory. If you are running Windows in 386 enhanced mode, you can copy the file EDTEMP.PIF to your Windows directory to allow WinEdit to compile from within a window. That's it! Entering License Information Choose this menu selection from the System Menu to enter your license number and ID when you register your copy of WinEdit. Registering brings you wonderful benefits: - Gets rid of that pesky reminder window that comes up when you start the program. - Entitles you to one hour free telephone support for 90 days. - Gets you the latest version of WinEdit. - Gets you a printed User's Manual. - Encourages the authors of this program to continue bringing you new and better products instead of breaking down and getting a real job. Online Support WinEdit has online support on a number of computer systems. First of all, the home of WinEdit is on Compuserve, in the WINAPA forum, in the Wilson WindowWare section (#15 currently). Also the latest and greatest downloads are available from DL15 of WINAPA forum. The Wilson WindowWare section of the WINAPA forum is checked on a daily basis, and all questions will be responded to. The FidoNet Windows echomail conference is also monitored for Windows questions in general. Questions about Windows and WinCheck will be answered in the echo. If your budget is not able to afford Compuserve, we strongly suggest that you contact your local BBS sysops and encourage them to carry the Windows echomail conferences. Registered users may also call our BBS for the latest versions of our products. (206) 935-5198 USR HST D/S V.42bis 9600+ 8N1 Basic Operations WinEdit follows the standard conventions for Windows programs. Refer to Chapter 2 of your Microsoft Windows User's Guide for instructions on using menus, selecting text, working with dialog boxes, working with documents, and using Windows Help. WinEdit Keys Use the following keys in WinEdit: Moving the Insertion Point Key(s) Function -------------------------------------- Up Arrow Moves up one line. Down Arrow Moves down one line. Right Arrow Moves right one character. Left Arrow Moves left one character. Ctrl+Right Arrow Moves right one word. Ctrl+Left Arrow Moves left one word. Home Moves to the beginning of the line. End Moves to the end of the line. PgUp Moves up one window. PgDn Moves down one window. Ctrl+Home Moves to the beginning of the document. Ctrl+End Moves to the end of the document. Selecting Text Key(s) Function -------------------------------------- Shift+Left or Selects text one character at a time Right Arrow to the left or right. Or, if the character is already selected, cancels the selection. Shift+Down or Selects one line of text up or down. Up Arrow Or, if the line is already selected, cancels the selection. Shift+Home Selects text to the beginning of the line. Shift+End Selects text to the end of the line. Ctrl+Shift+ Selects the previous word. Left Arrow Ctrl+Shift+ Selects the next word. Right Arrow Shift+PgUp Selects the previous screenful. Shift+PgDn Selects the next screenful. Ctrl+Shift+Home Selects to the beginning of the document. Ctrl+Shift+End Selects to the end of the document. Keypad + Copies current line to clipboard if no selection, or copies current selection. Keypad - Cuts current line to clipboard if no selection, or cuts current selection. Help Keys Key(s) Function -------------------------------------- F1 WinEdit Help Index Shift+F1 Extended Help COMMANDS File Menu Commands New --- Opens a new window with a new, untitled document Open ---- Opens a new window with an existing document. WinEdit can read an ASCII text file as large as available Windows memory. Merge ----- Reads an existing file into the current window, at the caret position. Save ---- Saves the current document. The window remains open. If the document is UNTITLED, WinEdit prompts you for a document name. Save As ------- Saves a document after prompting you for a new name. Print ----- Prints the current document using the print settings entered in the Page Setup dialog box. Page Setup ---------- Allows you to set the margins, headers, footers, printer font, and page layout. Printer Setup ------------- Sets printer options for WinEdit before printing. Preferences --------------- Allows you to choose the screen font WinEdit uses, the tab size, whether the Control Bar is shown, and startup file loading options. Exit ---- Closes all open windows and exits WinEdit. If there are any unsaved files, WinEdit prompts you before exiting. Edit Menu Commands Undo ---- Allows you to "undo" previous editing actions. WinEdit can undo the following: Inserting a character Deleting a character. Cutting a selection. Pasting a selection. WinEdit can undo the last 2000 editing actions. Redo ---- Allows you to reverse any Undo commands. After "redoing" edits, the Undo position is reset with the next editing action. Cut --- Removes the current selection from the document and places it on the clipboard. Copy ---- Places a copy of the current selection on the clipboard without removing it from the document. Paste ----- Pastes the text in the clipboard into the document at the insertion point. Delete ------ Removes the current selection from the document without changing the contents of the clipboard. If there is no selection, removes the character to the right of the insertion point. Insert Mode ----------- Toggles between Insert and Overtype mode. Select All ---------- Selects all the text in the document. Search Menu Commands Find ---- Searches for text in a document. * Find Type the text you want to find. * Match case Select this box to match the upper and lower case exactly. * Next Search forward starting at the insertion point. * Previous Search backward starting at the insertion point. Repeat Last Find ---------------- Repeats the last search using the same options, without opening the Find dialog box. Change ------ Searches for text in a document and replaces the found text with text you specify. * Find Type the text you want to find. * Replace with Type the text you want to insert in place of the found text. * Match case Select this box to match the upper and lower case exactly. * Search backwards Search backward starting at the insertion point. * Confirm before When text is found, you will be prompted changing before the change takes place. * Change All Start at the current position, and search the entire document. You will be prompted before each change takes place if the Confirm before changing box is selected. Next Error and Prev Error _________________________ If any warning or error messages have been captured from the output of one of the Compile Menu items, these menu choices allow you to review the messages and the corresponding source code. View Compiler Output -------------------- Loads the captured compiler output into a document window. Go to line ---------- Prompts for a line number, and moves the caret to that line. A mouse click on the status line also brings up the Go to line prompt. Compile Menu Commands The commands on this menu allow you to run other programs from within WinEdit. Use the Configure... command to enter the necessary command to run the program. Select the Capture Output box and WinEdit will run the program you configure and save its output. When the program finishes, WinEdit will allow you to review any warning or error messages that have occurred, along with the corresponding source code. WinEdit constructs a DOS batch file to execute when you choose to capture output. For this reason, to run a Windows application from the Run Menu, do not choose to capture output. WinEdit Project Files --------------------- WinEdit saves the information from the Configure... dialog box in a private INI file with an extension of .WPJ (WinEdit Project File). Choose the Save... pushbutton to save the contents of the dialog box in a .WPJ file. Choose the Open... pushbutton to load an existing .WPJ file. Window Menu Commands Tile ---- Arranges all open document windows side by side so that all windows are visible. Cascade ------- Arranges all open document windows in an overlapping pattern so that the title bar of each window is visible. Arrange Icons ------------- Arranges all document icons into rows. Close All --------- Closes all open document windows. If a document has changes that need saving, you will be prompted to save the document before closing. Document Name ------------- Each open window is listed on the menu by name. Choose the name and that window will become the active document window. PROCEDURES Changing Printers and Printer Options Select Printer Setup from the File menu to change printer settings. WinEdit will make the requested changes to your printer settings for this editing session only. The default Windows settings will not be changed. To permanently change a printer setting, use Control Panel. Select Page Setup from the File menu to change the printer settings for margins, header, footer, printer font, and page layout. WinEdit will remember these settings from session to session. Compiling (Running other programs) The first five commands on the Run menu are user-configurable commands to execute another program. You may configure these commands to execute any .EXE or .BAT program by typing the command text in the appropriate Configure... edit box. If the program supports DOS redirection (as most compilers and linkers do) you can select the Capture Output box to have WinEdit capture the program's output in a file. When the program finishes, WinEdit will allow you to review any warning or error messages that have occurred, along with the corresponding source code. WinEdit constructs a DOS batch file to execute when you choose to capture output. For this reason, to run a Windows application from the Run Menu, do not choose to capture output. Copying, Cutting, and Pasting Text To copy and paste, or cut and paste text: 1. Select the text. 2. Choose Copy from the Edit menu to copy the selected text to the clipboard. Or choose Cut from the Edit menu to cut the text to the clipboard. 3. Move the insertion point where you want the text to appear. Or select text you want the pasted text to replace. 4. Choose Paste from the Edit menu. Creating New Documents Choose New from the File menu to open a new, untitled document window. Deleting Text To delete text without sending it to the clipboard: 1. Select the text. 2. Choose Delete from the Edit menu or press the Delete key. If there is no selection, Delete deletes the character to the right of the insertion point. Extended Help Press Shift+F1 or click the Right Mouse Button on any Windows SDK function, message, or data structure name and WinEdit will access the SDKWIN.HLP topic for that item. If the word is not a valid Windows SDK topic, WinEdit will pass the word to QH.EXE (Microsoft's QuickHelp program, supplied with most Microsoft language products). This will allow you online access to any language or library keyword covered in the QuickHelp database. For SDK Help, the WinHelp file SDKWIN.HLP must be in either the current directory, the Windows directory, or a directory listed in your PATH statement. For QuickHelp, QH.EXE must be in either the current directory, the Windows directory, or a directory listed in your PATH statement. In addition, you must have an environment variable "HELPFILES=" defined which tells QH.EXE where to look to find the appropriate QuickHelp database files. Printing Documents Choose Print from the File menu to send the current document to the printer. Printing Headers and Footers Choose Page Setup from the File menu to configure header and footer text. Type the text you wish to appear at the top and bottom of each page. You can use the following special characters in headers and footers: * %f The document name will appear. * %d The file date and time will appear, unless the file has been changed, in which case the current date and time will appear. * %p The page number will appear. Saving Documents Choose Save from the File menu to save a document. Choose Save As to save the document with a new name, or to save an untitled document. Setting Preferences Choose Preferences from the File menu to choose a screen font, default tab size, whether or not to show the Control Bar, and startup file loading options. Setting Margins Choose Page Setup from the File menu to change the margins used for printouts. You can enter the measurements for top, bottom, left, and right margins. The margin settings are in inches or centimeters, corresponding to the English or Metric Measurement setting in Control Panel. Undo Allows you to "undo" previous editing actions. WinEdit can undo the following: Inserting a character Deleting a character. Cutting a selection. Pasting a selection. WinEdit can undo the last 2000 editing actions. Redo Allows you to reverse any Undo commands. After "redoing" edits, the Undo position is reset with the next editing action. Using Regular Expressions A regular expression is a search or replace string that uses special characters to match text patterns. WinEdit supports UNIX style regular expressions. When WinEdit conducts a search using regular expressions, it must check character by character in your text. For this reason, searches using regular expressions are slower than regular searches. The following table describes the regular expression characters recognized by WinEdit. Expression Description -------------------------------------------------------------- \ Escape. WinEdit will ignore any special meaning of the character that follows the Escape expression. Use the Escape if you need to search for a literal character that matches a regular expression. . Wild Card. Matches any character. For example, the expression 'X.X' will match 'XaX', 'XbX, and 'XcX', but not 'XaaX'. ^ Beginning Of Line. The expression matches only if it occurs at the beginning of a line. For example, '^for' matches the text 'for' only when it occurs at the beginning of a line. $ End Of Line. The expression matches only if it occurs at the end of a line. For example, '(void)$' matches the text '(void)' only when it occurs at the end of a line. [] Character Class. The expression matches any character in the class specified within the brackets. Use a dash (-) to specify a range of character values. For example, '[a-zA-Z0-9]' matches any letter or number, and '[xyz]' matches 'x', 'y', or 'z'. [^] Inverse Class. The expression matches any character not specified in the class. For example, '[^a-zA-Z]' matches any character that is not a letter. * Repeat Operator. Matches zero or more occurences of the character that precedes the '*'. For example, 'XY*X' matches 'XX', 'XYX', and 'XYYX. + Repeat Operator. Matches one or more occurences of the character that precedes the '+'. For example, 'XY+X' matches 'XYX' and 'XYYX, but not 'XX'. ** PLEASE SEE THE FULL ON DISK MANUAL FOR DETAILED INFORMATION. **