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- WPEdit is a programmer's text editor for Windows. It's not as full-featured
- as Brief or QEdit, but it is quite easy to use (at least I think so!) and it
- has some nice features for programmers.
-
- To install it, copy the files WPEDIT.EXE and WPEDIT.HLP to a directory on your
- hard disk, then use New Program Item in the Files menu of the Program Manager
- to install WPEdit in one of your program group windows.
-
- When you start it, you will be staring at a "clean slate". The editor works
- pretty much like other Windows editors, so if you have used any of them, you
- should be able to get up to speed with WPEdit pretty quickly. The online
- help will give you info on the various keyboard and menu commands.
-
- Important: This is an "alpha test" version of WPEdit. Although I have been
- using it for my own programming projects (including WPEdit itself) and it
- does not appear to have any serious bugs, it is not done!!
-
- Features that I plan to add:
-
- * Journal/Undo.
-
- * Script capability, which includes keyboard remapping.
-
- * Status window showing cursor position and currently enabled modes.
-
- * Horizontal scrollbar.
-
- * Whatever you suggest that is within the realm of my programming abilities!
-
- Limitations and quirks that I am aware of:
-
- * WPEdit can handle a maximum of 65535 lines. (Guess what data type a line
- number is!)
-
- * Lines are limited to 1024 characters in length. Right now, if you try to
- do something to exceed that, like concatenate two lines that together are
- longer than 1024 characters, the excess is simply chopped off. I can make
- this limit larger, say 2048 characters, but eliminating it would be a
- major project.
-
- * The total file size is limited to 2 Mbytes or the amount of available
- memory, whichever is less. But you don't want to load something TOO big,
- because...
-
- * File loading is somewhat slow. On the 20 MHz 386 system that I use, it
- takes about 7 seconds to load a 150K text file. This is due to the com-
- plexity of the data structures that I have to create, and of the heap
- allocation scheme I use. I am working to speed it up, but it's tough!
- (After some further evaluation, I have found that it is the number of
- lines in the file, not the total size, that determines how long it takes
- to load.)
-
- * Cutting, copying, and pasting are limited to 64K of text per operation.
-
- * When text is deleted, tags contained within don't go away.
-
- * Tags and the endpoints of the block mark move properly when whole lines are
- deleted or moved, but not when pieces of lines containing tags or mark
- endpoints are deleted/moved. This is turning out to be a "toughie" to
- solve.
-
- * The Find Balancing Paranthesis function is not aware of comments and quoted
- strings, so it will count parantheses inside them during its search. I've
- not found this to be a problem so far.
-
- I am hoping to someday sell WPEdit as shareware. Obviously it needs more
- work. I basically want to know how you like WPEdit, how it can be improved,
- and most important, whether or not you think it shows any promise of being a
- good editor!!
-
- You can write to me on GEnie (R.EPPS), CompuServe (72560,3353), BIX (repps),
- Prodigy (GPKT94A), Exec-BBS, or at this address:
-
- Robert Epps
- 208 Preble Drive #E
- Tustin, CA 92680-3743
-