
What's new in V1.221P

   -  Slightly faster file handling under MiNT extended file systems


What's new in V1.220P

   -  A German version of the  exectuable is available. Manual and  help
      pages are still in English.

   -  Problems with MultiTOS,  Geneva and Speedo  GDOS have been  fixed.
      More details below.

   -  The number of supplied  TTP filters has been  increased to 6.  The
      filters dialog  is now  much more  user-friendly. Filters  include
      spell checking, text information and column-based sorting. Filters
      now work  correctly with  Gemini 2  (but version  2 of  Gemini  is
      required - contact ZFC if you can't find the latest version).  See
      the HELP PAGE  of the  filter dialog  for up-to-date  information.
      Filter output can now be redirected to a new text window.

   -  Edith  can  now  work  with  arbitrarily  long  lines.  The   only
      limitation is now that tabs and the right margin can be no further
      than at column #256.  Older versions did  not complain about  long
      lines, but edit operations  were limited to  the contents left  of
      column #160.

   -  Drag&drop text blocks is now more intuitive (no more need to  hold
      the Alternate key). Edith would  crash if a selection was  dragged
      from a text window to the  Gemini 2 desktop. This has been  fixed.
      Mouse form changes to  a text cursor when  a selection is made  in
      insert mode.  In insert mode the mouse is replaced by a picture of
      a LOCK when Caps Lock is active.  The 'lock' has approximately the
      feeling of the arrow ('hot spot'-wise).

   -  Clicking on the BACKGROUND (i.e., a non-clickable object) inside a
      background window tops it, even when using MultiTOS or WINX.

   -  Minor changes to the appearance of the function keys, the drag and
      drop box, and the grey/green area  that used to represent the  end
      of a text.

   -  Enhanced visual feed-back. The copy operation makes the  selection
      flash briefly. All operations in  the 'Text' menu, when  performed
      on an empty  selection, make the  default scope flash.  Especially
      the effect of the 'format'  operation used to surprise users  when
      the cursor was not at column 0.

   -  Copy, Cut  and Delete  now default  to  one line  if there  is  no
      present selection. So when nothing is selected, ^X/^Y and  ^X/^Y
      are identical operations.

   -  Case insensitive  Search, To  Upper/To  Lower Case  now  correctly
      recognize  the  upper  128  characters  in  the  Atari  set.  Word
      left/right now recognize interpunction/noninterpunction symbols in
      the upper 128 characters of the Atari set.

   -  The  dead  keys  have  been  fixed  to  work  with   international
      keyboards. Problems were the backquote and backslash.

   -  Changes have been  made to  the desktop/menu  behaviour of  Edith:
      standard, also under  MultiTOS, is a  menu bar and  a desktop.  If
      command line parameter -nodesk is given, there will be no desktop.
      Option -i  (iconic)  implies  -nodesk.  The  command  line  option
      -noprev tells Edith *not* to take over the desktop background from
      the previous application. Under MiNT,  Edith will never take  over
      the background  object (because  memory protection  doesn't  allow
      this).

   -  Changing the  system font's  appearance now  affects all  text  in
      dialog windows and  menus. Problems  with Speedo  GDOS and  bitmap
      fonts have been fixed. For vector fonts, only the 'standard  point
      sizes' can now be selected. Speedo users can now happily revert to
      bitmap fonts.  Until Atari  have added  greyscale antialiasing  to
      Speedo GDOS,  vector fonts  will not  be  of much  use in  a  text
      editor. The 12 point version of the Edith monospaced font was made
      thicker. The 15 point font was not changed.  Other fixes have been
      done to the 8 and 10 point fonts.

   -  A new option has  been added in the  'File Options' dialog:  texts
      can now  be  saved  'as is'  rather  than  with a  fixed  type  of
      newlines. The newline type of a file (regardless of the switch  in
      the File Options dialog) is now  indicated in the status box of  a
      text window ('d' for MS-DOS, 'u' for UNIX and 'm' for MAC). Saving
      texts 'as is' is much,  much faster than converting the  newlines,
      even if it turns out that nothing needs to be converted.

   -  Binary files  are now  checked  on syntax  before saving.  If  the
      syntax check fails, the file is not saved.

   -  Some dialogs  have changed  names, and  some parameters  moved  to
      other dialog  windows; the  'Keys  & Mouse'  dialog moved  to  the
      'Options' menu. This allows for  a more strict separation  between
      functions valid on  GEM only, and  those who also  apply to  other
      platforms (the latter dialogs  will be the  same on the  X-Windows
      version of Edith).

   -  The Rulers dialog did not recognize editor tabs equally spaced  at
      distance 2. This has been fixed.

   -  Help can no  more act as  a backspace key.  Such an option,  users
      have argued, is not something for an application to provide. There
      is a freeware TSR which does this.

   -  A bug was fixed that  caused bits of cursor  to be left behind  in
      background windows when switching between insert and replace mode.

   -  The key alternatives for end macro have been removed.


What's new in V1.206P  (31st July 1994)

   -  When either of the SHIFT keys  is held down while clicking on  the
      opaque sliders, proportional  1:1 scrolling is  engaged (the  text
      moves up/down 1 line if you move the mouse one pixel up/down).

   -  EDITH.TTP now sends a VA_START message with a NULL pointer to  the
      Editress. It used to construct a command line in memory which  was
      only accessed after it  had already been  freed. Upon reading  the
      NULL pointer,  the  Editress  reads  the  command  (project)  file
      EDITRESS.CMD in the EDITH system directory,  and after processing,
      discards it.

What's new in V1.204P  (6th July 1994)

   -  Fixed bugs in the Keys & Mouse dialog (Alt P selected OK)

   -  Text formatting:  Removed  French spacing  heuristics.  No  longer
      leaves spaces at end of line, but a double space after a  sentence
      ending period may be contracted to one.

   -  Word wrap no longer writes spaces when wrapping a word

   -  A series of characters can be specified in the editor dialog which
      will  act  as  indentation  for  Auto  Indent,  Escape  and   text
      formatting

   -  Fixed bugs in begin/end selection and invert selection
   
