What's new in V1.221P - Slightly faster file handling under MiNT extended file systems What's new in V1.220P - A German version of the exectuable is available. Manual and help pages are still in English. - Problems with MultiTOS, Geneva and Speedo GDOS have been fixed. More details below. - The number of supplied TTP filters has been increased to 6. The filters dialog is now much more user-friendly. Filters include spell checking, text information and column-based sorting. Filters now work correctly with Gemini 2 (but version 2 of Gemini is required - contact ZFC if you can't find the latest version). See the HELP PAGE of the filter dialog for up-to-date information. Filter output can now be redirected to a new text window. - Edith can now work with arbitrarily long lines. The only limitation is now that tabs and the right margin can be no further than at column #256. Older versions did not complain about long lines, but edit operations were limited to the contents left of column #160. - Drag&drop text blocks is now more intuitive (no more need to hold the Alternate key). Edith would crash if a selection was dragged from a text window to the Gemini 2 desktop. This has been fixed. Mouse form changes to a text cursor when a selection is made in insert mode. In insert mode the mouse is replaced by a picture of a LOCK when Caps Lock is active. The 'lock' has approximately the feeling of the arrow ('hot spot'-wise). - Clicking on the BACKGROUND (i.e., a non-clickable object) inside a background window tops it, even when using MultiTOS or WINX. - Minor changes to the appearance of the function keys, the drag and drop box, and the grey/green area that used to represent the end of a text. - Enhanced visual feed-back. The copy operation makes the selection flash briefly. All operations in the 'Text' menu, when performed on an empty selection, make the default scope flash. Especially the effect of the 'format' operation used to surprise users when the cursor was not at column 0. - Copy, Cut and Delete now default to one line if there is no present selection. So when nothing is selected, ^X/^Y and ^X/^Y are identical operations. - Case insensitive Search, To Upper/To Lower Case now correctly recognize the upper 128 characters in the Atari set. Word left/right now recognize interpunction/noninterpunction symbols in the upper 128 characters of the Atari set. - The dead keys have been fixed to work with international keyboards. Problems were the backquote and backslash. - Changes have been made to the desktop/menu behaviour of Edith: standard, also under MultiTOS, is a menu bar and a desktop. If command line parameter -nodesk is given, there will be no desktop. Option -i (iconic) implies -nodesk. The command line option -noprev tells Edith *not* to take over the desktop background from the previous application. Under MiNT, Edith will never take over the background object (because memory protection doesn't allow this). - Changing the system font's appearance now affects all text in dialog windows and menus. Problems with Speedo GDOS and bitmap fonts have been fixed. For vector fonts, only the 'standard point sizes' can now be selected. Speedo users can now happily revert to bitmap fonts. Until Atari have added greyscale antialiasing to Speedo GDOS, vector fonts will not be of much use in a text editor. The 12 point version of the Edith monospaced font was made thicker. The 15 point font was not changed. Other fixes have been done to the 8 and 10 point fonts. - A new option has been added in the 'File Options' dialog: texts can now be saved 'as is' rather than with a fixed type of newlines. The newline type of a file (regardless of the switch in the File Options dialog) is now indicated in the status box of a text window ('d' for MS-DOS, 'u' for UNIX and 'm' for MAC). Saving texts 'as is' is much, much faster than converting the newlines, even if it turns out that nothing needs to be converted. - Binary files are now checked on syntax before saving. If the syntax check fails, the file is not saved. - Some dialogs have changed names, and some parameters moved to other dialog windows; the 'Keys & Mouse' dialog moved to the 'Options' menu. This allows for a more strict separation between functions valid on GEM only, and those who also apply to other platforms (the latter dialogs will be the same on the X-Windows version of Edith). - The Rulers dialog did not recognize editor tabs equally spaced at distance 2. This has been fixed. - Help can no more act as a backspace key. Such an option, users have argued, is not something for an application to provide. There is a freeware TSR which does this. - A bug was fixed that caused bits of cursor to be left behind in background windows when switching between insert and replace mode. - The key alternatives for end macro have been removed. What's new in V1.206P (31st July 1994) - When either of the SHIFT keys is held down while clicking on the opaque sliders, proportional 1:1 scrolling is engaged (the text moves up/down 1 line if you move the mouse one pixel up/down). - EDITH.TTP now sends a VA_START message with a NULL pointer to the Editress. It used to construct a command line in memory which was only accessed after it had already been freed. Upon reading the NULL pointer, the Editress reads the command (project) file EDITRESS.CMD in the EDITH system directory, and after processing, discards it. What's new in V1.204P (6th July 1994) - Fixed bugs in the Keys & Mouse dialog (Alt P selected OK) - Text formatting: Removed French spacing heuristics. No longer leaves spaces at end of line, but a double space after a sentence ending period may be contracted to one. - Word wrap no longer writes spaces when wrapping a word - A series of characters can be specified in the editor dialog which will act as indentation for Auto Indent, Escape and text formatting - Fixed bugs in begin/end selection and invert selection