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- short: Textread, a very fast text viewer
- type: text/show
- author: Martin Blom (lcs@lysator.liu.se)
- uploader: Martin Blom (lcs@lysator.liu.se)
-
- Textread version 38.82, release 1.13.
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- Textread is a more/ppmore/... clone. The main difference is the speed.
- Textread is designed to be as fast as possible, yet system friendly.
- Some of the features are:
-
- o Speed
- o Support for XPK and PowerPacker
- o Multibuffer
- o Multi settings
- o Softscroll (well it sucks, really)
- o RTG compatible
- o Can use any fixed-width font system-friendly
- o Can use any 8×8 pixel font on Amiga bitplanes
- with very fast text routines
- o Supports pipes
-
- Just download it and have a look.
-
- Changes since previous release (1.11)
-
- Release 1.13
- ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
- V38.82 'Edit text' now runs the editor async.
-
- Textread should now be 100% (well, close)
- compatible will graphics cards, if 'system
- rendering' is selected.
-
- Added 'Save' and 'Save As...' menu items.
-
- The file requesters now have a title, just like
- the other ones, when using RTPatch.
-
- Minor improvements to the requesters, removed
- redundant code.
-
- Improved the ANSI/ISO sequence remover (It did not
- remove ANSI/ISO sequences, just some common Escape
- sequences!).
-
- When 'system rendering' is selected, any
- fixed-width font may be used, as long as 80×20
- characters fits on screen. (Expect some slowdown)
-
- When searching, the found word will be
- hightlighted (or the line the word is on if
- wildcard is used).
-
- You can now supply your own icon images for the
- prefs files and the AppIcon, just create the files
- "ENV:Textread/def_prefs.info" and
- "ENV:Textread/def_app.info".
-
- (Re)added 'Go to line' (l, #) and 'Go to %' (g, %)
-
- The default preference file is now located in
- 'ENVARC:Textread/Textread.prefs'.
-
- Added a palette requester. Well, not quite...
- All it does is running SYS:Tools/Colors (Exists on
- your WB 2.0 disk. 3.0+ owners may want to try Ian
- J. Einman's IanUtils (Fred Fish, or
- AmiNet:dev/asm/IanUtils.lha)
-
- The prefs files have changed format for the last
- time, the new format is more flexible.
-
- The key binding has changed a bit.
-
- The 'Reveal' list now also shows buffer numbers.
-
- Textread now supports pipes. Read the docs for
- notes.
-
- Some bugs removed, some small things improved.
-
- Textread never detaches itself from shell anymore.
- It was inconsequent, and besides, 'run' was made
- for a reason.
-
- Added Open/Close Workbench menu items.
-
- If a second copy of Textread is started, without
- the NEW argument, only a small portion of the code
- will stay resident in memory, waiting for the new
- buffer in the old Textread to be closed. Ehmm..
- let's just say it saves memory.
-
- System rendering and fontfake is allways on (and
- can't be turned off) when a non-native screenmode
- is selected. This will avoid potential (chip)
- memory trashing.
-
- Fixed the "***Corrupt window pointer!" problem
- WShell reported. Thanks, Ulrich!
-
- Added a requester to prevent accidental saves.
-
- Discovered what caused a frustrating bug that made
- my custom text routines do nothing (no screen
- clear, no text printing, no nothing.) It was Magic
- Layers (1.1) . So if Textread suddenly (or more
- specific after you have dragged a window on
- Textread's screen) stops printing, just iconify it
- and deiconify, and don't drag any more windows on
- Textreads screen!
-
- Changed the shareware rules a bit.
-
- Removed a bug that caused Textread to crash if the
- ENVARC: assign did not exist.
-