From haas@starnine.com Wed Jul 7 20:43:43 1993 Received: from relay1.UU.NET by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.3) id AA09375; Wed, 7 Jul 93 20:43:27 PDT Received: from spool.uu.net (via LOCALHOST) by relay1.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AA24537; Wed, 7 Jul 93 23:43:10 -0400 Received: from starnine.UUCP by spool.uu.net with UUCP/RMAIL (queueing-rmail) id 234116.8330; Wed, 7 Jul 1993 23:41:16 EDT Received: from mac_smtp by starnine.starnine.com (5.64/SMI-3.2) id AA21952; Wed, 7 Jul 93 19:56:00 PDT Message-Id: <9307080256.AA21952@starnine.starnine.com> Date: 7 Jul 1993 20:38:29 -0800 From: "Mike Haas" Subject: msg 3 of 3 Content-Type: x-uuencode-apple-single To: "Dan Zerkle" X-Attachments: "Textra14.lzh" (type: uuencode-apple-single) Status: RO Reply to: msg 3 of 3 TITLE Textra, GUI-based Amiga Text Editor VERSION 1.14 COMPANY Shareware AUTHOR Mike Haas 3867 La Colina Rd. El Sobrante, CA. 94803 mikeh@starnine.com Also author of JForth Professional and LCD Calculator. DESCRIPTION Textra is the User-Friendly text editor for the Amiga. It contains a fully-Intuitionized GUI as well as an ARexx interface with 50+ commands. The package interfaces with the WB2.0+ asl font requester, supports multiple windows with cut, copy and paste between them. Undo and Drag-select with left mouse button, background printing and ARexx script exec- ution, user-settable preferences which can be saved, all supported. The editor displays fast text and continuous-movement vertical and horizontal scroll bars. The package contains full, detailed documentation, 30+ Arexx scripts (including an interactive tutorial) and a hard disk installer program. Scripts are provided to integrate Textra with JForth Professional 3.x, HSPascal and Paul Kienitz's Q-Blue Offline Mail Reader program. NEW FEATURES Textra 1.14 sports a status line indicating current cursor position or select range location. The ARexx requester is improved, allowing 10 strings, utilizes additional function keys for single-key launching. All alphabetic keys, as well as the HELP key, are now user-configurable; each may be bound to any Textra script or internal Textra command via the CTRL key. Double- clicking any ( ) < > [ ] { } character locates the balancing character (forward searches conducted for balancing double-quote characters). User-definable startup ARexx script is checked for at launch. Increased system fault checking. More menu key equivalents. New ARexx commands & scripts. Bug fixes. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS none PRICE $25.00 Shareware fee. DISTRIBUTABILITY Unregistered versions of TEXTRA are freely distributable. OTHER An earlier version (v1.11) is distributed with JForth Professional 3.x. This release of Textra is backward- compatible with that version.