Author : Harald Simon Date : Sat, 14 August 1999 Version: 1.1 Copyright (c) 1999 by Harald Simon INTRODUCTION Typewriter is a small and efficient editor based on the text widget of tk. The main purpose of this editor is to provide the facility to edit one or more files, each in a separat window. But, the window(s) itself have no menue or command buttons to save as much space as possible for the text. To be able to control the editor, a main window will be shown on the left edge of the screen. This main window includes the menu. All commands can be called up via the menu or the keyboard. - Please find a list of the main keystrokes in file MANUAL - Typewriter has a undo and redo buffer. The depth of the buffer is 64 commands. That means, that the last 64 commands can be rejected (undo), and in case of mistakes, the undo can be revoked (redo) so many time a undo has processed. As a command is taken a single action on the text widget, i.e.: insert a character, delete a character, paste the selection, cut a selection or delete a selection. Furthermore, Typewriter has a search and replace dialog. With this dialog, text can be searched and/or replaced in any direction from any postion. The last 100 search and/or replace strings can be called up via a popup list. The regular expression search facility from tcl can be used. There is also a switch to tell Typewriter to ignore the case of the strings. With the goto dialog you can go directly to a particular line. If you put instead of a line number also the character position, separated with a period, e.g. 20.5, Typewriter will set the cursor to that position of your file. The character table dialog allows the comfortable insertion of special character like the copyright symbol or foreign language characters. If a file will be opened and the file is alredy loaded in Typewriter, the window of that file is just raised. That means, a file cannot be loaded twice.