Short:    Pro. editor for multiple file formats.
Author:   Willem Mestrom
Uploader: supernov@zeelandnet.nl
Version:  1.03
Type:     text/edit
Replaces: text/edit/amis.lha
Date:     December 30/1996

Philosophy:
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Some men see things as they are, and say 'why ?'.
I dream things that never were, and say 'why not ?'.

After years of using my Commodore 64 and my Amiga to learn all about the
assembler language, I dreamt of a programme which had it all. Now, after a
development period of 3 years, you have the first steps of this dream in
your hands. AMIS (AMiga Integrated System) is a programme capable of editing
multiple file formats with the power of an unique, easy to use graphical
user interface using normal intuition functions.

A list of the most important features of AMIS:
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o WYSIWYG handling of AmigaGuide, ANSI, ASCII, C and HTML documents.
o A special codebar beneath the WYSIWYG environment allowing normal ASCII
  editing. The codebar height is adjustable.
o Each viewer has its own special preferences.
o Recognition of the type of text you want to load.
o Possibility to program your own viewer. Examples are included.
o A Project Manager for documents which belong to a certain subject.
o A Window manager for easy handling opened/hidden windows.
o Many user-definable preferences to let the user create his own best
  suitable editor environment (toolbar, menu, keyboard, etc.).
o Folding.
o Undo/Redo.
o Real tabs with a possibility to use spaces.
o Several ways of wordwrapping.
o Hunt file option for easy opening include files used in C documents.
o Many internal commands which simultaneously represent the ARexx commands.
o Each window has its own ARexx port and preferences.
o Window position snap-/unsnapshotting.
o Macro recording/playing and adding short-keys to macros.
o Bookmark support.
o Smart indent with unique user-definable preferences.
o Fast search/replace function with wildcards option.
o Fast loading and initializing of documents.
o Extra Dutch, German and Italian localization.
o XPK crunch support.

New features and improvements since AMIS 1.02
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o Intelligent (smart) indent with handy user-definable preferences for each
  viewer.
o Window snap-/unsnapshotting.
o Codebar height is now user-adjustable.
o New wrap-back function in the editor settings.
o There is a new menu option 'Expand Tabs' in the Misc. menu. It can be used
  to convert tabs into the correct amount of spaces.
o Real tabs with a possibility to use spaces.
o When opening windows, much less memory is used.
o Much faster redrawing of long text files with blocks selected.
o Searching is now about 20(!) times faster. 
o It is now possible to tell AMIS to switch between viewers automatically
  (without a requester).
o There are new ARexx options:
  SELECT/S
  for the commands 'CursUp', 'CursDown', 'CursLeft', 'CursRight'. It can be
  used to use the cursor keys for block selection.
  Query FLAG/N
  Currently the only valid number is one which indicates wether OVERWRITE is
  ON or OFF (1/0).
  BLOCKSTART & BLOCKEND
  Meant for the 'Goto' command.
o New Dutch, German and Italian translations.
o XPK crunch support.
o Minor improvements for more stability.

HTML viewer
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o Intelligent addition of text styles to a selected piece of
  text.
o Better cursor display and cursor handling.
o Initializing documents is now 2-5 times faster.
o Many internal changes for better speed and better
  handling of the generated HTML codes.
o New viewer specific preferences (Window/Viewer/Preferences).

C viewer
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o When characters like ( ) { } and [ ] are encountered the
  open and the related close character will be highlited.
o More colours and now user-definable.
o New viewer specific preferences (Window/Viewer/Preferences).

ANSI viewer
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o Now has a complete black background.
o New viewer specific preferences (Window/Viewer/Preferences).