Short: GUI-based Text Editor with ARexx
Type: util/edit
Uploader: mikeh@starnine.com
Author: mikeh@starnine.com

Textra is the User-Friendly text editor for the Amiga.
It contains a fully-Intuitionized GUI as well as an
ARexx interface with 70+ commands.  The package
interfaces with the asl file and font requesters,
supports multiple windows with cut, copy and paste
between them.  Also supported are Undo and Drag-select
with left mouse button, background printing and ARexx
script execution, user-settable preferences which can
be saved.  The editor displays fast text and
continuous-movement vertical and horizontal scroll bars.

The package contains full, detailed documentation,
40+ Arexx scripts (including an interactive tutorial)
and a hard disk installer program.

Scripts are provided to integrate Textra with
JForth Professional 3.x, SAS/C, HSPascal and Paul Kienitz's
Q-Blue Offline Mail Reader program.

New Features...

o  Textra now includes a full-featured interface to the popular 
   SAS/C development environment, developed and generously
   contributed by SAS Institute's Jim Cooper.

o  The new MARKS facility allows you to assign any selected 
   text to a logical name of up to 31 chars long.  Any number 
   of assignments can be made.

o  Users may now opt to use the ASL File requester in place of 
   the native Textra file requester.  Default is the Asl requester.
  
o  Under 2.0 or later, the CUT, COPY and PASTE functions now 
   operate with the standard clipboard device (unit 0).

o  This is the first version to be low-memory-failure-proof! 
   ANY MEMORY REQUEST FAILURE WILL FLASH THE SCREEN 3 TIMES in 
   1 second, then wait until the memory comes available.

o  Textra now supports just about any mail reader known to
   Amiga-Man!  Textra 1.15 sports both a command-line option
   as well as an ARexx command which tell Textra to
   "hold" the calling program until the specified window
   is closed.
  
o  Program now takes note if a file is MSDOS format or Amiga 
   format and will preserve the format when saved.

o  Added the ability to write-protect a window so that it 
   cannot be accidentally altered while open.
  
o  Before you SAVE a file over an existing disk file, Textra 
   now performs some checks that nothing else has messed with 
   the file on disk while the editor has held a copy in ram.

o  Under 2.0 and later, Textra will display the 2.x-style 
   'busy pointer'.

o  14 new ARexx commands, 12 new scripts

o  Bugs fixed