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to: JAAP KEUTER
from: GEORGE DE BRUIN
date: 1994-12-12 16:37:00
subject: Help with CRs + FileS 1/2

 From   JAAP KEUTER
                                        
  GDB> needed.  If you would like some more information on The
  GDB> SemWare Editor, I would be happy to post some for you.
 
  Please do!!
                                        
   To   GEORGE DE BRUIN
Okay, Jaap.  Here's the information:
                       SemWare Editor Feature List
                       ---------------------------
* Ease of use:
    + Full Context-sensitive HYPERTEXT HELP.
    + Easy-to-use pull-down Menus showing default key assignments
    + User-definable multi-page Help system
    + Optional HelpLine display of function key assignments
* Large editing capacity:
    + Extremely fast, virtual memory support, fully utilizing expanded and
        extended memory, and disk, up to 64 megabytes, maximum line lengths
        up to 2032 characters!
    + Simultaneous editing of an almost unlimited number of files
    + Uses less than 2k when shelling to DOS or running other programs
* Speed:
    + Exceedingly fast:
        - loading files
        - displaying text
        - searching for text
        - saving files to disk
* Powerful, full-featured macro language:
    + Exceptionally powerful embedded programming language (SAL) allows
        extensive customization and extension of the editor
    + Easy-to-read, modern-style syntax
    + Features procedures with parameter passing, local and global variables
    + Offers access to most editor, screen, user-interface, system functions
* Easy-to-use, intuitive MOUSE support for:
    + Window manipulation - create, zoom, select, resize
    + Block marking and manipulation
    + Menu operations
    + Quick text scrolling
* Search and replace capability:
    + Regular expression search and replace
    + Incremental search
    + Listing of all occurrences of a string
    + Confine search and replace to a marked block
* Complete reconfigurability:
    + Ability to redefine all the editor's keys
    + Menu-driven customization option
    + Easily-configurable color settings
* Powerful block operations:
    + Support for line, column, character blocks
    + Case-change feature - upper, lower, flip
    + Options to move, copy, delete, cut, append, print, save, fill, format,
        indent, outdent, sum, detab, tab, left/right justify
    + Sort capability - ascending/descending, case-sensitive/insensitive
* Printing options:
    + Optional printing of line numbers
    + Single-, double- and triple-spaced printing
    + Top, bottom, left and right margins
    + Support for page numbers, headers and footers
    + Settable printer device, initialization string
    + Option to print selected pages
    + Ability to pause between pages
* Numerous other useful features, including:
    + Powerful 'where-is' command to find and load files fast!
    + Automatic Startup Macro (TSESTART) for modifying your working
      environment!
    + 26 user settable bookmarks
    + Default ClipBoard, plus multiple user-created named ClipBoards
    + Configurable wildcard load option with manual override
    + Option to save all files
    + Multiple horizontal and vertical windows
    + Filename-completion option available at any prompt requesting a
      filename
    + Directories sorted to top of PickLists
    + Change the current directory by using the file PickList
    + All prompts feature POP-UP HISTORY BOXES
    + Indenting and formatting commands
    + Powerful, easy-to-use keyboard macro facility
    + Deletion buffer to store previously deleted text
    + Pop-up ASCII table (with character paste feature)
    + Line/box drawing, including ASCII and user-defined character
    + 28/43/50-line EGA/VGA modes
    + Support for column display greater than 80
    + Built-in "smart" indenting mode for many popular languages
    + Integrated program compiling via the MULTI-LANGUAGE COMPILE
      MACRO.
    + Template/Abbreviation expansions.
    + Option to locate matching braces and parentheses
    + POTPOURRI menu for quick access to add-on macros.
        - We've even included a collection of macros, including syntax
          highlighting and more!
    + Default extensions for loading files
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