[net.micro.pc] New release of DED

klr@hadron.UUCP (Kurt L. Reisler) (01/24/86)

Dan Pleasant has released version 2.0 of his Rainbow-specific, MS-DOS
public domain editor, DED.  It is currently available on a limited
number of FIDONET nodes on the east coast.  I will be posting a split,
uuencoded copy of ded2.arc to net.micro.pc this afternoon.  All that
you need to do is remove the mail headers from the 2 parts, cat them
together and run the combined halves through uudecode to generate
ded2.arc.  Then use your favorite file transfer program to copy this
archive to your DEC Rainbow, and use the ARC (version 4.5) utility to
extract the new executable and documentation.  What follows is an
extract from the archive and describes what changed between versions
1.05 and version 2.0 of DED.

Disclaimer:  This is posted with the author's permission.  This program
is specific to the DEC Rainbow.  It runs fine under MS-DOS 2.11.

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 (Changes in) Version 2.00 (of DED):

	1. Line and column numbers added.
	
	2. <Addtnl Options> routines moved to the <Shift>-<Main Screen>
	   key.
	
	3. New search and search/replace routines, with wild cards,
	   added. Use the <Addtnl Options> key for this.
	   
	4. Added variable tab settings (4 or 8 spaces only). Can be
	   set using the <Shift>-<Main Screen> key.
	   
	5. Added support for environment variables to set default
	   settings of tabs, pause-while-printing, buffer save, and
	   auto-indent.
	   
	6. Added <Crtl>-<Next Screen> and <Ctrl>-<Prev Screen> routines
	   to go up/down in the file until any key is typed or until
	   the top/bottom of the file is reached.
	   
	7. Changed "delete-a-word" and "move right/left 1 word" routines
	   so they react correctly to punctuation marks as well as
	   spaces.
	   
	8. Changed <Help> key routine so that you can browse through
	   different function keys without pressing <Help> again
	   each time.
	   
	9. Set default tab settings for 4 spaces for ".C" or ".PAS"
	   files, unless there is a DEDTAB envirnment variable. Tabs
	   are still 8 spaces for everything else.
	   
	10."Illegal" characters above 127 (decimal) are now changed
	   into spaces. This should eliminate DED crashes when used
	   with word processing files that have funny characters
	   embedded.
	   
	11.BUFFERn.DED files will no longer be erased if they already
	   exist when DED starts up. Instead, they will be used in the
	   normal fashion.
	   
	12.More space is allowed for entering file names with the
	   "insert-a-file" command so that path names can be used.
	   
	13.Macro commands can be twice as long now.
	
	14.The "Push-to-DOS" function has been fixed (once and for all
	   this time).
	   
	15.Some funny business in the <Shift>-<Main Screen> screen
	   has been cleaned up (cosmetic only).
	   
	16.Entering "DED filename <spaces>" no longer causes a crash.
	
	17.Control characters will no longer be changed to spaces at
	   the end of large files.
	   
	18."Go To Line Number" command (<Resume> key) added.
	
AND REMEMBER. . .  BETTER DED THAN RED!!!