Other New Features of KEDIT for Windows 1.5

• The default Alt+X key assignment has been enhanced. When you are working with a file other than a DIR.DIR file, Alt+X will now edit the file named at the cursor position. For example, if you are editing a C program with the line

  #include <local.h>

  you can now place the cursor on ``local.h'' and press Alt+X to edit that file.

• Toolbar buttons are now grayed out when they are unavailable. Also, minor changes have been made to the look of the toolbar, and a few of the buttons have been changed to be more consistent with Microsoft's current recommendations.

• Clipboard support has been enhanced. You can now query and set the contents of the clipboard from within a macro, and you can append text to the existing clipboard contents. Also, if the cursor is on the command line and there is no command line selection, you can now Cut or Copy from a marked block in the current file, and do not first need to move the cursor to the file area.

• New LINE and COLUMN initialization options let you control your initial location in a newly-loaded file; this previously required some fancy footwork in your profile.

• SET PATH and SET MACROPATH still let you specify an environment variable with a list of directories to search for files to be edited or macros to be run, but you can now also specify a list of directories directly. This makes it possible to dynamically change the list of directories to search. It can also eliminate KEDIT's dependence on environment variables, which is desirable because their values cannot be conveniently changed while Windows is active.

• The default for SET PATH is now *PATH;*INCLUDE;=, which means that, during searches for files to be edited, KEDIT will look in the directories listed in your PATH environment variable, the directories listed in your INCLUDE environment variable, and in the directory of the current file. This automatic search of the directory of the current file is often quite useful.

• SET AUTOEXIT ON tells KEDIT for Windows to end your editing session automatically when the last file is removed from the ring, just as text mode KEDIT does. With the default of AUTOEXIT OFF, your editing session continues even if all files have been removed from the ring; this gives you the option of selecting other files to edit or using File Exit to end the session.

• All commands that operate on box blocks will now also operate on one-line stream blocks, treating them as if they were box blocks. For example, you can now LEFTADJUST the text within a one-line stream block.

• The FILLBOX command, now known as the FILL command, will operate on line and stream blocks as well as on box blocks, and the OVERLAYBOX command will operate on line blocks and one-line stream blocks as well as on box blocks.

• KEDIT can now be invoked by the Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me shell to print files whose extensions have been associated with KEDIT. The profile used to print a file is controlled by the new SET PRINTPROFILE command.

• The POPUP command, which in the past always placed the pop-up menu at the mouse cursor location, can now be told to position the pop-up menu at the text cursor location, or near the center of KEDIT's frame window.

• EXTRACT /TARGET/, EXTRACT /BLOCK/, EXTRACT /FIELD/, and EXTRACT /FILESTATUS/ have been enhanced to return additional useful information to a macro. EXTRACT /FILESEARCH/ has been added.

• SET TABS INCR n has been enhanced to extend tab columns all the way to the current WIDTH setting; in the past at most 32 tab columns could be in effect. INCR can also now be used following a list of specific tab columns. For example, to set tabs in columns 10 and 20 and every 5 columns thereafter:

  SET TABS 10 20 INCR 5

• Prefix commands to uppercase (U, UU) and lowercase (L, LL) text have been added.

• With SET FORMAT EXTENDED in effect, KEDIT now treats lines with less than (``<'', used with HTML tags) or greater than (``>'', used to quote text in e-mail messages) in column 1 as the start of a new paragraph.

• The COUNT command, when issued from a macro, now returns the number of occurrences counted in the macro variable COUNT.1 and the number of lines containing at least one occurrence in COUNT.2. Similar changes have been made to the CHANGE, SCHANGE, and ALTER commands.

• A few additional keys can now be defined, including the Application key found on some recent Windows-specific keyboards, along with some additional Ctrl+ combinations like Ctrl+; and Ctrl+Star.