Edith Manual         File Options         19th May 1994


The following  FILE OPTIONS  can be  specified in  this
dialog:

The TYPE of NEWLINES when a file is saved can be set to
match any of the following three standards:

   MS-DOS      (carriage return, line feed)
   UNIX        (line feed)
   Macintosh   (carriage return)

BACKUPs can  be  written  before saving  a  file.   The
backup file either  has the same  name as the  original
file, with the  extension  '.BAK', or  is  saved  in  a
folder BACKUP by its original name.

CARBON COPIES  of  a  file  can  be  saved  at  regular
intervals, set in  minutes, and can be  saved when  you
choose to abandon  the contents  of a  window when  you
close it.  Carbon  copies are  a safety  measure.  When
for some reason your computer system has crashed  while
you were editing important text,  and a carbon copy  of
that text has been written  recently,  and the text  is
opened again, EDITH will automatically offer to use the
carbon copy instead of the original file.  Also,   when
you decided  to  abandon a  text  and later  found  the
changes valuable anyway, the carbon copy can provide  a
solution.

The TIME the LID of the TRASH CAN takes to close can be
set in seconds.  When the automatic trash can system is
switched on (in the  EDITOR OPTIONS dialog),  old  text
blocks are automatically saved to the trash can.  While
the lid is open,   moving data to  the trash can  takes
less time than  when it is  closed.  The difference  is
especially noticeable  when quickly  deleting lines  by
repeatedly pressing F8 or 
^Y.

The INTERVAL at  which the CLIPBOARD  is sensed can  be
set in 10ths of a second.

   ** When the clipboard  is only sensed  once every  5
      seconds,   the  delay  before  Edith  notices  an
      external change can be irritating.  It is good to
      know that even while the menu item PASTE is still
      greyed out, the keyboard  shortcut ^V will  force
      Edith to read the clipboard immediately.


Edith Manual         File Options         19th May 1994