Welcome to... ------------- asedit text editor Version 1.3.2 (International Release) What ---- asedit is an easy to use text editor for X Window System built around Motif text widget. Version 1.3.2, international free Release, includes the following language versions: English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Portuguese and Swedish. All commands and messages are localized for each language. The on-line help is available only in English. Versions for other left to right languages, with single-byte character sets, can be easily developed. Features -------- The main features of Version 1.3.2 include: - (*) international release (versions for 8 languages) - graphical user interface (GUI) - multiple editing windows - easy to use "point and click" interface - drag and drop support (Motif 1.2 and above only) - file selection via file selection dialog - read only mode to view files - file insert functionality - print dialog that allows: (i) selection of a printer and using extra print options (ii) selection of a print range (selected text only or the complete document) - (*) comprehensive context sensitive, hypertext on-line help - multiple undo and redo of edit actions - Cut/Copy/Paste features - bookmarks (up to 10) - (*) parenthesis (pair) matching - comprehensive search and replace - line and column numbers - automatic indentation - shortcut keys for the most common edit features (based on CUA) - (*) pop-up menu for mouse oriented editing - (*) special version with keyboard bindings for EMACS's users - (*) customization via the standard X11/Motif resources method - (*) easy localization for left to right languages (8-bit characters) - (*) spell and sort commands - (*) commands to change case of letters - (*) formatting commands (expand/unexpand, move left/right, indent with, reformat margins) - (*) user customizable filters (up to 10); following filters are preconfigured: word count, compress multiple blank lines, delete blank lines, double space the text, delete extra spaces; new filter dialog is also available; - (*) user customizable commands (up to 10); following commands are preconfigured: pwd, date, hostname; new command dialog is also available - (*) extended syntax (on program startup: show line , open multiple files, set tabstops interval, set autoindent, etc.) (*) - means a completely new or dramatically improved feature in ver. 1.3 Tested on... ------------ I have personally built and run the program on the following systems: System OS X11 Motif Ver. ------------------------------------------------------- IBM RS/6000 AIX 3.2.x R4 1.1.x IBM RS/6000 AIX 3.2.5 R5 1.2.2 SGI IRIS Indigo IRIX 4.0.x R4, R5 1.1.4 SGI INDY IRIX 5.[12] R5 1.2.[23] SUN Sparc SunOS 4.1.[23] R4,5,6 1.1.4 SUN Sparc SunOS 4.1.3 R5 1.2.1 SUN Sparc SunOS 5.3 R5 1.2.2 DEC Alpha OSF/1 V2.0 R5 1.2.2 HP9000/700 HP-UX 9.x R5 1.2.1 I have also built previous versions on the following other systems (so this version should be OK as well): HP9000/700 HP-UX 8.x R4 1.1.x DG AViiON DG/UX 5.x R5 1.2.2 88-open 88-open R5 1.2.2 For a proper international support you *should* really use X11R5 or R6 and Motif 1.2 (or higher). Who by ------ Andrzej Stochniol (A.Stochniol@ic.ac.uk) 30 Hatch Road, London SW16 4PN, UK. (Please use telephone and fax numbers only when absolutely necessary !!) Tel: +44 (0)181 679 5795 Fax: +44 (0)171 584 1560 (work) Tel: +44 (0)171 594 7076 Release Date ----------- 10 November 1994 Availability ------------ asedit is available by anonymous ftp from: ftp.x.org (198.112.44.100) in /contrib/editors/asedit-1.3.2.tar.Z or in Europe from: src.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.2.10) in /packages/X11-contrib/editors/asedit-1.3.2.tar.Z and from several other ftp sites. Check your nearest using xarchie. If you can't ftp, try sending email to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com with the word "help" alone in your message body (in Europe you can use ftpmail@doc.ic.ac.uk). You will receive instructions on how to ftp via email. Continue reading... -------------------- See: COPYRIGHT to know what you can and what you cannot (in short, asedit is free for most users, but it is NOT a public domain software); INSTALL for instructions on building & installing of asedit. See also: ACKNOWLE.LOC to learn who contributed to asedit localization; HISTORY if you would like to know what has changed; COMMERCL.VER if you would like to know about an extended and performance oriented commercial version of asedit.