FW: Cooledit-3.1.1 Public Release
I.Ioannou
roryt at hol.gr
Wed Jul 9 01:10:27 EEST 1997
Kainourgia Public releae tou Cooledit. Opos panta tha ton brite ston
argeas.argos.hol.gr/pub/unix/cooledit
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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 16:27:08 GMT+2
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From: Paul Sheer <PSHEER at budget.mech.wits.ac.za>
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carreng at math.uct.ac.za, cooledit at argeas.argos.hol.gr,
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Subject: Cooledit-3.1.1 Public Release
ANNOUCEMENT Cooledit 3.1.1 - Full featured text editor
(Last public release was Version 2.2.4)
(((
Version 3.1.1 may not have yet reached the sunsite
get the latest version from
argeas.argos.hol.gr /pub/unix/cooledit
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Title: Cooledit
Version: 3.1.1
Entered-date: 08JUL97
Description: Full-featured X Window text editor; multiple
edit windows; 3D Motif-ish look and feel;
shift-arrow and mouse text highlighting;
key for key undo; macro recording; regular
expression search and replace; pull-down
menus; drag and drop; interactive man page
browser; run make and other shell commands
with seamless shell interface; redefine keys
with an easy interactive key learner; full
support for proportional fonts
Keywords: text editor, XLib, X Window System, X11,
Drag and drop, DND, programming editor
Author: psheer at hertz.mech.wits.ac.za (Paul Sheer)
Maintained-by: psheer at hertz.mech.wits.ac.za (Paul Sheer)
Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/apps/editors/X
339kB cooledit-3.1.1.tar.gz
1kB cooledit.lsm
Alternate-site: argeas.argos.hol.gr /pub/unix/cooledit
339kB cooledit-3.1.1.tar.gz
1kB cooledit.lsm
Platform: Any Unix clone running X11
Copying-policy: GPL
End
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FROM THE NEWS FILE:
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Version 3.1
* Find matching bracket.
* Full support for proportional fonts. You can now use
cooledit with any ISO font.
* International characters can now be inserted with
multi-key composing (right control).
* Insertion of decimal and hex numbers with Ctrl-q.
* Xor cursor option.
Version 3.0
* Full Drag and drop support for block copy and move.
* Use file browser to drag a file and insert it
directly into an edit window.
* Run ispell on a block. This allows spell checking of
an individual word or block.
* Run make (Alt-f7) and display output to a text-box. Hit
an error and Cooledit takes you right to the file
(if open) and line number.
* Control-F1 now calls up an interactive man page browser.
* Key learning window to easily redefine keys.
* Many new editing keys: Ctrl/Meta arrow/move combinations.
* Shell script editing and execution to create your own
support for any compiler or shell command.
* New main window on Shift-F3.
* Input widgets now have history with Shift-Down/Up.
* Editor has selection history - very useful.
* Backup files are created - extension is configurable.
* Full support for different font sizes (fixed spaced
fonts only though)
* Removed an inadvertent 32768 line limit on file size.
* Many cosmetic improvements.
* Word wrap.
* Process selection request events - copy and paste now
compatible with all standard X applications.
* Smalledit text editor -- a cut down version of Cooledit.
* Myriad command-line options.
* Bug fixes.
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MAILING LIST:
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Our mailing list address is
cooledit at argeas.argos.hol.gr
Bug reports, comments, suggestions or patches are welcome.
To subscribe, email
majordomo at argeas.argos.hol.gr
with any of the following lines in the body of the message:
info cooledit
subscribe cooledit
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FROM THE MAN PAGE:
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NAME
cooledit-3.1.1 - Full featured text editor for the X Win-
dow System, Version 11.
USAGE
cooledit [-RGBSisabv?] [options] [[+<line>]
[<path>/]<file>] [[+<line>] [<path>/]<file>] ...
DESCRIPTION
This is a portable, fast X Window text editor with beauti-
ful 3D widgets. It requires only the X11 library to run.
The engine is the same as that used for the internal edi-
tor of the Midnight Commander and hence cooledit repre-
sents a X Window version of that editor.
Features
Cooledit supports multiple edit windows and has all the
conveniences of MSW/MAC text editors. The interface has a
beautiful 3D look and feel vaguely like Motif. It has an
extensible file size limit of 16Mb and edits binary files
flawlessly. Besides typical functions of a basic editor,
cooledit has the following features: Key for key undo;
shift-arrow text highlighting; macro recording; a generic
shell execution facility that can be used to run make,
sort or any user defined shell function on text or editor
files; easy key redefinition; mouse text highlighting;
drag and drop; double-click on a gcc error message to go
immediately to the file and line number; desktop and cur-
sor position memory; easy window cycling; comprehensive
search and replace; input histories; and more. The editor
is very easy to use and requires no tutoring. To see what
keys do what, just consult the appropriate pull-down menu.
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FROM THE FAQ:
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1.1 What is Cooledit?
Cooledit is a full-featured text editor, for Unix computers that
run the X Window System. Cooledit was born from a need for a user
friendly text editor that would rival editors of other operating
systems in ease of use and convenience. Lately Cooledit is also a
powerful programmer's editor. It is also small and fast, making it
ideal for interface with applications that allow for, or require,
an external editor. See 'Features' in the man page for a more
elaborate description of what Cooledit can do.
1.4 Does Cooledit require any proprietary libraries to compile/run?
No. Cooledit requires only the basic X11 library (libX11) to run
which is available as free-ware. On some systems this may mean
linking with addition basic libraries (like libsocket?), which
are automatically determined by the ./configure script. In
particular, note that Cooledit does not require the Motif (libXm)
library which is not yet available for free.
3.4 In what ways does Cooledit behave differently to other X
applications.
Cooledit is more similar to applications from 'other' operating
systems than to standard X applications.
- Only two mouse buttons are supported. Mouse button 1 is
recognised as the 'Left' button, while all other
buttons are recognised as the 'Right' button.
- Double clicking is synonymous with acknowledgement or pressing
Enter.
- The Tab key is always used to cycle between items in a dialog
box. The arrow keys can also be used where they are not
bound to some other function. Shift-Tab or back-tab is
used to cycle backward.
- Shift arrow text highlighting works along with its well known
keys: Control-Ins and Shift-Ins. In addition Alt/Meta-
Ins brings up a cut and paste history which is very
useful.
- Dragging and dropping bits of text poses the problem of how to
tell if the user wants to copy or to move the text being
highlighted. Use the Left mouse button to copy and the
right mouse button to move ('move' = 'copy and then
delete the original'). Dragging always works by
highlighting the text with the mouse or cursor keys, and then
Clicking (with the appropriate button) and dragging from within
the highlighted region.
- Clicking with button 2 to copy text from another application
doesn't work --- instead you must use Shift-Insert. If
text is highlighted in another application it will then
be inserted at the cursor. Cooledit also does not
discriminate between different kinds of data,
so any data being copied to Cooledit will be accepted and
inserted.
- Copying of text to another application works as usual: highlight
it with the mouse and press button 2 in the window of
the application.
You can also highlight it with the arrow keys and press
Control-Ins, and then press button 2 in the window of
the application.
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I.Ioannou (roryt at hol.gr)
http://www.argos.hol.gr/~roryt
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