TurboText Demo 2.0 (26-Nov-94) Copyright © 1990-1994 Martin Taillefer, All Rights Reserved This is freely redistributable Copyright and Disclaimer ======================== Title to this software and all copies thereof remain vested in the author indicated in the above copyright notice. Holders of this software are granted the right to reproduce and use the same for personal, non-commercial purposes. All other rights are reserved. NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES ARE MADE WITH RESPECT TO THE ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, PERFORMANCE, OR OPERATION OF THIS SOFTWARE, AND ALL SUCH USE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. THE AUTHOR DOES NOT ASSUME ANY RESPONSIBILITY OR LIABILITY WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO YOUR USE OF THIS SOFTWARE. For inquiries regarding this product, contact: Oxxi, Inc. P.O. Box 90309 Long Beach, CA 90809-0309 USA Phone: (213) 427-1227 FAX : (213) 427-0971 Questions of a technical nature can be sent electronically to Martin Taillefer at this address: vertex@bix.com Welcome! ======== Welcome to TurboText, the most advanced text editor available for the Amiga line of computers. TurboText has been designed from the ground up to provide the necessary tools to easily perform a varied range of sophisticated text editing tasks. Whether TurboText is used for educational, recreational, or professional text editing, it offers Amiga users the highest level of performance and ease of use available. TurboText can be used out of the box and offers an impressive array of capabilities. The more advanced users can also customize the editing environment to a high degree. Through ARexx, additional capabilities can be added by using the vast collection of commands available through TurboText's ARexx interface. TurboText works perfectly well under AmigaDOS 2.0 through AmigaDOS 3.1. We have adhered closely to the new user-interface standards promoted by Commodore, which enhances usability and reduces the time it takes to learn how to operate the software. This version of TurboText is a special demonstration version that does not allow you to save and print documents. Aside from these two limitations, the program is fully functional. Included with the main program are several ARexx scripts and special definition files. Installing TurboText 2.0 Demo ============================= Installing this demonstration copy of TurboText is very simple. Just launch the installation program of your choice (based on your preferred language). The installation process will ask you where to create a drawer where TurboText can be installed. Once the installation is complete, you will be able to run TurboText by double-clicking on the TurboText icon inside of the drawer that was created. Feature Overview ================ TurboText has a vast array of features, only a few of which are presented here. By experimenting with this demonstration version, we hope you will get a sense of its power. Following is a brief list of what TurboText can do for you: · Fully integrated into the Amiga windowing paradigm with an intuitive font-sensitive user-interface. · Complete on-line documentation in AmigaGuide format. · Completely mouse and/or keyboard driven. · Unlimited number of documents opened at any one time. · Provides multiple views on the same document. · Full standard clipboard Cut/Copy/Paste support, including vertical selection blocks. · Sophisticated integrated programmer's calculator. · Extensive ARexx macro interface featuring over 160 commands. · Lets you record your actions and play them back automatically, the sequence of actions can even be saved to disk to create ARexx macros. · Contains a powerful hexadecimal editing window. · Complete outlining abilities using the special Fold interface. · Many advanced features such as automatic case correction and automatic word correction. · Supports sophisticated text templates, including special template sets for C, Modula-2, BASIC, ARexx, and Assembly programming. · Unparalleled customizability providing for complete redefinition of the program menus, keyboard sequences, mouse sequences and more! · Includes emulations of many popular text editors such as CygnusEd, TxEd+, MEMACS, BRIEF, WordStar, and others. · Provides several features suitable for general-purpose text editing such as word wrap, auto-indent, free form mode, etc. New In Version 2.0 ================== TurboText 2.0 features a large number of enhancements over previous versions. Here are some of the major additions: · Performance has been greatly enhanced throughout the program. · Now includes full on-line documentation. · TurboText now uses the ASL file and screen mode requesters. · Each TurboText window can now be opened on separate public screens. · Each TurboText window can now have its own menu strip, its own font, its own text color, etc. · Lines are no longer limited to 32768 characters, and can be as long as system memory allows. · TurboText now features an ARexx macro cache, which enhances the performance of ARexx macros considerably. · There are now many more optional confirmation requesters that prevent dangerous errors from being done. · The text gadgets in the Find and Find & Change now maintain a list of the last several text strings used. When one of these text gadgets is active, the [CursorUp] and [CursorDown] keys may be used to cycle through the history of text strings. · It is now possible to operate TurboText without having a window opened. This is very useful to execute ARexx macros in the background. · TurboText can now automatically detect binary files when it loads a new document, and adjust its preferences options in order to handle the file correctly. · There is now a Project/Insert... menu command which lets you insert a file from disk at the current cursor position. · When running with AmigaDOS release 3 or greater, the system's busy pointer is used instead of a custom one. This makes TurboText pick up changes made to the busy pointer in Pointer preferences. · TurboText uses new look menus when possible. This makes the menus look nicer. · A large number of ARexx commands were added or expanded to make the ARexx interface more powerful.