Product specification

Product Name:	Digital Quill
Retail Price:	$40.00 USD
Short Description:	Intuitive StyleGuide Complient Text Editor
System Requirements:	Amiga OS 2.1 or better, 1 meg of ram.

Product description

Digital Quill is a fast, friendly and full-featured text editor for your Amiga. It is not only new in the sense of it being a new product, but it also brings a brand new attitude to text editors, and Amiga applications in general. Quill is a user-centered design, designed from the start with a high degree of usability in mind. This provides a ground work that is comfortable and easy to use, while at the same time being fast and powerful.

If you are a programmer, it may interest you to know that Digital Quill directly supports a number of popular compiler environments, including; SAS/C, Dice, and Benchmark Modula-2.

Features:

• Recent Projects List - NEW!
• Very fast text scrolling
• Compatible with CyberGraphics, and Picasso RTG
• Quick disk operations
• Fast Find and Replace with String History
• Fully user configurable button strip, or "SpeedBar"
• Macros can be recorded or hand-written, played back, and be assigned to a key combination, a pull-down menu item, or a speed button
• Extensive preferences, including:
  • Screen mode and fonts
  • "Tab Size" & "False Tabs" option
  • Configurable Undo memory/levels
  • Free Cursor Layout Mode
  • Drag Marking and Fence Posting
  • Small 4 color, or Large 8 color toolbar images
  • Settable Right Margin
• A full array of conventional text editing features, including:
  • Timed Backup
  • Clipboard Support
  • Choice of "true" or "fake" tabs and configurable tab size
  • Word Wrap
  • Auto-Indent
  • BookMarks
  • Case Conversion
  • Bracket Matching, both automatic and on-demand
• Printing of full document or marked block
• Completely font adaptive user interface
• Localized user interface (English,French,Suomi,Italian,German)
• Complies rigidly with Commodore's user interface style guidelines
• Requires WorkBench 2.1, and takes full advantage of Release 3.x features
• Extensive ARexx interface
• Complete context sensitive hypertext online help via AmigaGuide
• Well written 120 page manual and ARexx Reference

Screen Shots

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A screengrab of Digital Quill. The lower left window is the DQ macro editor.
 

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Another screengrab of Digital Quill. The search window is opened.