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- --- WPEdit version 0.6 ---
- --- Copyright 1991 ---
- --- Robert Epps ---
-
- 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.
-
- Version 0.6 is the second version that I have made available to the public;
- the first was 0.5, uploaded several months ago. I apologize for taking so
- long to come out with 0.6, but until recently I have not had my own computer
- at home, and I've had little free time at work to "goof off". Now that I
- have a computer at home I (hopefully) can start cranking on this thing!
-
- Anyway, this version has numerous bug fixes and enhancements. There were
- several instances where filenames were stored internally as partial instead of
- full pathnames, causing problems such as the occasional inability to bring up
- the help file. The dialog boxes for file open/save in version 0.5 were a bit
- screwy; they have been fixed. I have received lots of mail with new feature
- requests; I have not implemented that many of them yet, but you may like what
- I have added (like the font selection ability). I plan to keep on adding new
- features and bringing out new releases as warranted.
-
- Many people have complained about the slowness of the file loading. To fix
- this I will have to rewrite the "Text Engine" (the WPEdit module that stores
- and manipulates the text in memory). I plan to do this eventually anyway so
- that it will use memory more efficiently, so hopefully the editor will be much
- faster in a near-future release.
-
- Important: This is still 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 data-clobbering bugs, it is NOT DONE!!
-
- *** Features that I am working on:
-
- * New, improved, faster Text Engine.
-
- * Journal/Undo.
-
- * Script capability. Among other things, this will greatly enhance the
- program's configurability, and allow you to remap the keyboard to your
- liking (i.e. Wordstar key sequences).
-
- * Wildcards in search/replace.
-
- * Status window showing cursor position and currently enabled modes. (It's
- actually already coded, but it's so buggy that it is disabled for now.)
-
- * Horizontal scrollbar (I really don't want to do this, and will probably
- drag my feet as long as possible.)
-
- * Selectable colors for the various windows.
-
- * More options controlling text-highlighting behavior of the mouse, etc.
-
- * 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!) The new Text Engine will probably increase this to 2^32 - 1
- lines.
-
- * 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.
-
- * 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 33 MHz 386 system that I use, it
- takes about 4 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. The new Text Engine will speed things up.
-
- * 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. Still working on this.
-
- * 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. It continues to beg for
- improvements. 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), America Online (RobertE49), Exec-BBS, or at this address:
-
- Robert Epps
- 208 Preble Drive #E
- Tustin, CA 92680-3743
-