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- Following is a listing of changes from FastEddie3.0 to FastEddie3.1:
-
- new features:
- Ñ extensive undos
- Ñ zoombox
- Ñ <Option><transfer...> adds transfer menu items
- Ñ global find is now flagged in menu bar with "ñ"
- Ñ word wrap on is now flagged in window title bar with "ñ"
- Ñ transferring to mmcc or batchx is now case insensitive to menu item
- Ñ <option><Print> disables background printing
- (for use with independant print spooler)
- Ñ cut and paste with <option><click> now uses desk scrap
- Ñ copy and paste with <cmd><click> now uses desk scrap
-
- pretifications:
- Ñ ok button on about window
- Ñ window menu now displays file name rather than full path name
- Ñ "Move over" renamed "Move"
-
- minor bugs fixed:
- Ñ maximum allowable full path name up from 80 to 256 characters
- (bombed if exceeded)
- Ñ intermittent tab misbehavior fixed (tedo fix)
- Ñ "Move" more robust:
- Ñ when last line was fully selected move included the following line
- Ñ move left with leading tabs was miscalculating
- Ñ print rountines more robust (memory management strengthened)
- Ñ print from desktop fixed
- Ñ extra page was skipped by <Option>CR alone on a line
- Ñ Save now checks if file is already open (to prevent problems
- when another program in switcher has left the file open)
- Ñ transfering a multiple window file to mmcc passed multiple copies of
- the file
- Ñ "Justify block" with leading tabs debugged
- Ñ copy paste buffers were creating spurious pastes
- Ñ single digit date insertion was inserting '\0' thus foiling "find"
-
-
- Following is a listing of changes from FstEddie2.9 to FastEddie3.0:
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- new features:
- Ñ lines per printed page now in About <filename>╔ dialog
- Ñ helps you determine where to put form feeds
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- prettifications:
- Ñ windows menu now handles up to 200 windows
- Ñ title marked with leading ╞ when file has been changed
- Ñ tab width now based on spaces rather than w's
- Ñ move over to the left is therefore cleaner
- Ñ full path title with more than 2 parents now of the form:
- DiskName:...:Directory:Filename Ñ large path names therefore fit better in title bar
- Ñ neat windows (now stack windows) is now much faster and
- cleaner
-
- bugs fixed:
- Ñ form feed (<Option><Return>) debugged
- Ñ was periodically feeding xtra form
- Ñ insert a file into a file debugged
- (bombed in 2.9 only)
-
-
- Following is a listing of changes from FstEddie2.8 to FastEddie2.9:
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- new features:
- Ñ standard tabs (for word wrap off)
- Ñ word wrap uses text edit tabs
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- prettifications:
- Ñ move over improved to account for hard tabs
- Ñ if tabs are smart lead of lines transformed to max tabs
- Ñ it tabs create spaces lead of lines transformed to spaces
- Ñ maxmem changed to compactmem to minimize disk access
- Ñ rebuilding menus now avoids releasing resources
- (also to minimize disk access)
- Ñ file menu unhighlighted when background printing starts
-
-
- Following is a listing of changes from FstEddie2.7 to FastEddie2.8:
-
- new features:
- Ñ high quality background printing
- Ñ save copy to... in file menu to make backup files
-
- prettifications:
- Ñ linE gap multiwindow behavior much improved
-
-
- Following is a listing of changes from FstEddie2.6 to FastEddie2.7:
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- new features:
- Ñ printer enabled
- Ñ <Option><Return> inserts a FormFeed (0X0C)
- Ñ selecting print from the finder will print the selected
- files as full width with the default font.
- Ñ line insertion now much faster when appropriate memory
- is available
- Ñ intelligent transfer to Megamax programs:
- Ñ bAtchx transfer passes only top ".bat" file
- Ñ mmcc transfer passes only ".c" files
- Ñ open by selection now opens files in active window's directory
- Ñ accepts list of files separated by punctuation
- (space, newline, tab, comma, etc.)
- Ñ <cmd><Option><doubleClick> tiles the top 4 windows
-
- prettifications:
- Ñ 32K transition cleaner
- Ñ "Move over" now accounts for tabs
- Ñ Lineheight set to accent + decent + leading + linE gap
- (see display menu)
- Ñ ' is no longer a punct_char (to improve glossary)
- Ñ <DoubleClick> in title bar has simplified behavior
- Ñ head of option menu shows available memory
- Ñ size menu incorporated into font menu
-
- minor bug fixed:
- Ñ closing a multi window file of more than two windows
- confused the window stacker
-
-
- Following is a listing of changes from FstEddie2.5 to FastEddie2.6:
-
- new features:
- Ñ open files are passed to the "transfer..." program
- Ñ mmcc auto error display is enabled for HFS
- Ñ the standard clipboard is now implemented
- Ñ "linE gas is..." in display menu changes lineheight
- (<cmd><Shift>E decreases spacing, <cmd>E increases
- it), "save oPtions" makes the last change the default
-
- prettifications:
- Ñ the window title is now the full path name
- Ñ user "transfer..." programs (program names added to the
- end of the file menu) are now disabled if they cannot be
- opened
- Ñ changing fonts maintains the existing font size
- Ñ Auto indent copies both TABS and blanks
- Ñ inserting a blank before a TAB moves the TAB to next stop
- Ñ stacked windows are now much larger (and more useful)
-
- bug fixed:
- Ñ synchronized scrolling bombed with only one window open
-
-
- Following is a listing of changes from FstEddie2.4 to FastEddie2.5:
-
- new features:
- Ñ "insert returns" in display menu inserts carriage returns at
- line breaks in selected text (use with word wrap to "freeze"
- line widths)
- Ñ "delete returns" in display menu deletes carriage returns in
- selected text (to undo "insert returns")
- Ñ <cmd><Shift><Enter> extends selection to the end of the file
- (our answer to a request for "Select all")
- Ñ <Option><Shift><Enter> extends selection the to top of the file
- and scrolls to the top of the file (ditto)
- Ñ change buffer in "find, change..." now understands "\n"
- (carriage return) and "\t" (tab) and "\l" (linefeed)
- Ñ "about <file>" now has column number (requested by Fortran
- programmers)
-
- bug fixed:
- Ñ auto scroll now works with Mac+ ROMs (The erradic behavior of
- SelRect in the new ROMs caused much grief)
-
-
- Following is a listing of changes from FstEddie2.3 to FastEddie2.4:
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- new features:
- Ñ <cmd><Option>W now activates next window
- Ñ <cmd><Option><Shift>W now activate previous window
- Ñ optional hard TAB emulation
- Ñ "tabs are simple" in options menu uses appropriate spaces
- instead of TAB characters .. "tabs are smart" emulates
- "hard" tabs
- Ñ cursor movement from arrows on Mac+ or keypad
- Ñ default is character movement
- Ñ use <Option> for word and line movement
- Ñ use <Shift> to extend selection
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- prettifications:
- Ñ Untitled now without leading disk name
- Ñ horizontal scroll to home on change to wrap (simplifies code)
- Ñ horizontal scroll now disallowed in word wrap (simplifies code)
- Ñ flushevents on startup eliminated (eliminates periodic problem
- with disk insertion during "open..." dialog startup)
-
- minor bugs fixed:
- Ñ transfer from TabsOut (V1.2) now works
- Ñ break lines in File menu now always disabled
- Ñ slight horizontal scroll misallignment fixed
-