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JOE 1.0.5 New features and fixes

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From: Joseph H Allen
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 14:30
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A new version of Joe's Own Editor is complete.  Get is by anonymous ftp to 
world.std.com, file: src/editors/joe1.0.5.tar.Z.  Also look for it on 
'alt.sources' This has a number of fixes and new features: 

- Rectangle/Column mode.  I think I've made a very good implementation of 
this stuff.  It's really neat, I could have used this earlier.  When this 
mode is selected, the normal block commands (including filter block through 
unix command) and insert file work on rectangles.  Also if overtype mode is 
set, these commands overtype instead.  Also when rectangle mode is set, 
indent and unindent will work with the insertion/deletion point as the 
left side of the rectangle instead of the beginning of the lines.

- Can set tab width

- Can set indent/unindent step column-width and fill character

- ^K ;  now does a tags file search

- if there's only one help screen defined, then ^KH immediatly turns on help
instead of giving a menu

- same deal with TAB completion- if only one item matches, it does a simple
completion

- unnamed files get the name first given to save file ^K D

- joe is now in a subdirectory in the tar archive.  Also as you can see,
I'm including the version number along with the name

- the problems with the optimizer on Xenix and with back-tab on SCO UNIX are
fixed.  You still have to use 'ttysv' with SCO UNIX- I need to get access to
a SCO UNIX machine to make a tty interface for it.  I think the posix tty 
interface is probably pretty close.

- string searches were crashing when they got to the end of the file.  this 
is fixed now.  

Hex dump edit mode, fixed record length edit more and a new 'man' page are 
on the way.

The only major features which I feel are still missing are shell windows and 
background loading/demand loading.  These are going to be mess as far as 
portability so they'll probably take a while.
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From: jhallen@world.std.com (Joseph H Allen)
Subject: JOE 1.0.5 New features and fixes
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Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 14:30:22 GMT
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