Versions and bug report

• Line drawing with cursor keys (IBM codepage only): Simply press Ctrl-Alt-Cursor keys for single lines and Shift-Alt-Cursor keys for double lines. Edge characters are calculated automatically.
  

Bugs fixed in WSedit 0.99k:

• Malfunction with block operations within indented paragraphs (snow characters)
• program hangs when using "Undo" after text insertion (paste from clipboard, Ctrl-KC, Ctrl-KV)
  

WSedit 0.99i and j were not published.

New functionality/improvements in WSedit 0.99h:

• (0.99h1) Ctrl-OJ "generate character map" generates an ASCII table in comment lines
• Ctrl-OD "show printer chars": without printer chars text an be edited now (restricted, because printer chars remain on previous position)
• Ctrl-B and Ctrl-OG indention gets calculated correctly when using with printer chars
• Ctrl-QA "search/replace" affects only running text and not dot commands. New command Ctrl-QN affects dot dommands only
• Tab key in overwrite mode jumps to tabulator positions
• right-orientated columns with ".tb#10,#20", while the numbers behind ".tb" relates to the last character in the column
• undo/redo keycode is now Ctrl-Backspace (Alt-Backspace still works, but forces a system beep in Windows)
• "File - New Window" did not work (Windows version only)
• Ctrl-U "paste trash buffer" created an additional single space (Windows version only)
• and a lot of minor bugfixes, not worth to mention.
  

New functionality/improvements in WSedit 0.99g:

• Extended screen font handling
• DOC files which are saved by StarOffice/OpenOffice get open properly
• new heap management increases max. text file size from 20 to 300 MB
• (Windows version) adaption to Vista (especially HTML-Help; Winhelp support gets continued)
• minor improvements and bugfixes.
  

New functionality/improvements in WSedit 0.99f:

• New highlight functionality: highlightning the background dependent on the nested if conditions level (new checkbox in settings notebook, page Highlight)
• New dialog window "choosing if conditions" ^OK (impacts the text background color, the content window and the command "calc number of chars" ^OZ).
• Improved reading of MS DOC files.
• Improved Support (Import/Export, Highlightning) of Write&Set TXT format
• Syntax Highlightning for E-Mail (Quotes)
• File - Export RTF (Rich Text Format)
  

New functionality/improvements in WSedit 0.99e:

• Ctrl commands are accepted now while pressing Shift or Capslock
• horizontal scrollbar appears/disappears depenending on formatting state (.BE, .BD)
• "Page Down" improved: it was not possible to get an nearly empty screen at the end of the document
• File-Open, File-Save dialog window is sizeable now
• Find Dialog and Replace Dialog history dropdown-box now implemented (but it remembers only the entries of the current session)
• New settings on the "feeling" page of the settings notebook:
  • Ctrl-KC block marker remains at source
  • Only Ctrl-Del deletes block, not Del alone
  • Interchange cursor shape for overwite/insert mode
    Now the feeling settings are general and not dependent on the file extension.
    

Bugs fixed in WSedit 0.99e:

• (Windows) bug fixed drag and drop text (right mouse button!)
• redraw problems with italic font fixed
• when creating BAK files, casually crash fixed
• remember foreground/background color bugs fixed
• some DOC files were not imported
• Bug in Move Column Block fixed
• Bugs in showing page breaks fixed (casually different results when scrolling or PgDn; sometimes page breaks were not identical with Wordstar and WSformat)
  

New functionality/improvements in WSedit 0.99d:

• "Feeling" page in the settings notebook
• Locate String Window (Ctrl-OF)
• (WS/W&S text format) underlined/italic/bold text (printer character ^S, ^Y, ^B) is shown underlined/italic/bold
  

0.99d is an important bugfix, a lot of minor bugs were fixed (some of them forced a termination).

New functionality/improvements in WSedit 0.99c:

• WSedit does not only distinguish anymore between Softreturns and Hardreturns. The new "Breakreturn" (gray color at the rightmost column) shows that a line without spaces has been broken to show it at the next line. This can be necessary in technical text files where lines do not contain spaces (e.g. PATH= statement in CONFIG.SYS of OS/2 or DOS). To create a Breakreturn, continously type a character without spaces.
• The Wordstar 7 import functionality has been improved; two bugs concerning soft spaces are fixed.
• In addition to TXT file format, File - Export also supports basic HTML export (codepage, underlined, bold, italic, headings)
• reading Microsoft DOC files in read-only mode; only text is converted, no formatting
• A lot of minor improvements, not worth to mention. E.g. when marking a block with the mouse and you run outside the window while marking, the scrolling speed relates to the distance of the mouse position to the window margin. Improved drag and drop functionality.
  

New functionality/improvements in WSedit 0.99b:

• "File - New" menu item
• Full "Write&Set TXT format" support which was yet only implemented in WSformat. "Write&Set TXT" is a new file format which exists both in IBM ASCII and Windows ASCII format and is helpful if someone wants to edit a Write&Set unformatted file with an arbitrary editor.
• RTF clipboard export: You can transfer not only simple text to arbitrary Windows wordprocessors like Word. Also all relevant printer characters (^B, ^S, ^Y, ^T, ^V, ^K, ^@) are converted and every kind of indention (via soft spaces) is transferred correctly; even tables with soft spaces are working. Dot commands are not converted (only .TS Tab stretch is interpretated)
• /IBM /WIN commandline parameter for opening a TXT file with IBM codepage on the Windows platform and a TXT file with Windows (ANSI) codepage on the OS/2 platform
• /.XXX commandline parameter for explicit selection of a file type if WSedit cannot derive the file type from the filename extension.
  

Bugfixes in WSedit 0.99a:

• Ugly default font on Win95-98-ME system
• Program icon missed
  

New functionality/improvements in WSedit 0.99:

• Ctrl-QP (quick to last position) was missing. Now implemented.
• Different window title text, dependent on having focus or not (to get useful information in the Windows taskbar)
• Wheel mouse support for Windows
• full Drag and Drop in the Windows version (but with the right, not the left mouse button!)
• better screen font support: all available fixed fonts can be selected and are stored in the text file "edifonts.ini"
• Support of the "Write&Set TXT format" in File - Import, File - Export
  

New functionality/improvements in WSedit 0.98:

• Better clipboard support. WSedit distinguishes now between Wordstar/Write&Set clipboard content and ASCII clipboard content. Copying a WS text to another editor converts soft spaces (snow characters) to a TAB character. (This enables you copying a WS table with soft spaces to an Excel spreadsheet.) German umlauts and other extended characters are converted correctly.
• Moving the mouse over green chapter heading text shows bubble help e.g. "heading of chapter 7.4.1".
• Adaption to new WSformat graphics functionality: If the clipboard contains a graphic, pressing Shift-Ins in WSedit runs the WSformat graphic dialog and inserts the required graphic dot command.
• Moving the mouse over a "dot command macro" (see WSformat documentation) prompts the definition in a help bubble
• In the contents window, the whole contents is written into the clipboard instead of a file ("clip all").
  

New functionality/improvements in WSedit 0.97:

• Reduced amount of processor time while typing new text with the keyboard
• Move block (^KV), copy block (^KC) and insert clipboard (Shift-Ins) is now implemented for column block mode (^KN)
• Multi trash buffer: You can use e.g. ^T "delete right word" and ^U "paste deleted word/line" several times and move e.g. several words
• ^QP Paragraph dialog window let you jump to a specific paragraph (Par) number.
  

In WSedit 0.98a, the following bugs were fixed:

• 0.98a.1: ^A and ^F interpretates digits not as "normal characters" (jumps over digits)
• 0.98a.2: spellchecker failed with ANSI codepage and languages with extended characters
• 0.98a.3: calculating the sum of numbers in a column block failed if numbers had more than one dot or comma (e.g. 1.000.000,00 $)
  

In WSedit 0.98, the following bugs were fixed:

• 0.98.01: Wrong line count in formatted files (wrong interpretation of ".CP", wrong ".LH" default)
• 0.98.02: (Win) extended characters like German umlauts were not handled correctly in uppercase <-> lowercase conversion
• 0.98.03: (OS/2) Bubble help did not work anymore if eCom-Center was running
• 0.98.04: In the open/save file dialog, a drive letter in the filename like "a:text.txt" did not work properly.
  

In WSedit 0.97, the following bugs were fixed:

• 0.97.01: Characters with an ASCII value higher than 127 did not work correctly in the Windows version (e.g. french characters with accents), but german "Umlauts" did work
• 0.97.02: In FMT files, sometimes a wrong page break was shown (WSformat was not envolved)
• 0.97.03: "File - Save as" to a floppy disk drive forced a malfunction with a missing Backslash
• 0.97.04: "File - export" did not omit the first dot command of the document
• 0.97.05: ^OZ "calc number of chars" did also count characters in dot commands
• 0.97.06: WSedit did not interprete ".CN" (content numbering)
• 0.97.07: WSedit did not interprete ".EP" (enumerate paragraphs) correctly
• 0.97.08: When reading an ASCII file, Tabs (ASCII value 9) are now converted correctly to spaces.
  

Improvements, changes or bugfixes in WSedit 0.96 (June 2003)

• calculating the sum of numbers when using column block (^KN), if the block contains digits only (observe the title bar!)
• count words (special fct - calc number of chars)
• no occasionally malfunction anymore when typing an indented paragraph
• Bugfix: on Windows 98, 2000 and later, doubleclicking into the Editor to activate the corresponding WS/FMT editor did not work (the window remained in the background).
• scrolling down to empty area behind end of document (^Z and PgDn) improved
• Bugfix: In the OS/2 verson of WSedit, only lowercase letters were accepted for the second character (^KX, X is the second character), and in Windows, only capital letters were accepted.
• New command ^QT: delete right from cursor until punctuation mark
• New command ^OA: create a text file containg a Ctrl command overview
• modified commands for changing text to uppercase/lowercase (^KJ, ^KZ, ^QJ, ^QZ)
  

Improvements, changes or bugfixes in WSedit 0.95 (May 2003)

• the WSedit search and search/replace dialog accepts printer characters (enter ^ and B or write a hash, followed by three digits for the ASCII decimal code)
• german documentation of WSedit
• the WSedit "Par" counter does not count dot commands and empty lines anymore. ".EP off/on" turns paragraph enumeration on and off.
• if WSformat is running, doubleclicking into the WSedit WS file jumps into the FMT file to the same paragraph.
• fixed bugs concerning communication between WSedit, WSformat and reverse
  

Improvements, changes or bugfixes in WSedit 0.94 (March 2003)

• Communication between WSedit and WSformat to get part of Write&Set
• Menu bar (can be switched off, see menuitem Options)
• Alternate appearance of popup menu (see menuitem Options)
• "highlighted cursor": after a while with no cursor movement, the cursor is marked by a lightblue cross; pressing CTRL without another key forces the highlighted cursor immediately
• modified behaviour when starting WSedit without a file (see Settings notebook - page Save).
  

Improvements, changes or bugfixes in WSedit 0.92 (November 2002)

• A great number of small bugfixes, not worth to mention all.
• ^OD "do not show toggles" is available now, but pressing any key will show the toggles again: You can't type while toggles are not shown. The old ^OD command (show translation window) has moved to ^OV.
• The cursor gets highlighted if WSedit is idle for a specific time. See Settings Notebook, page misc.
• If spell checking is enabled, ^L goes to the next marked (wrong) word.
• WSedit is adapted now for use together with WSformat. The look and feel is like a single program. E.g. pointing with the cursor to a font dot command in WSedit opens a font example window near the cursor which is drawn by WSformat. All documentation refering to communication between these two programs is hold in the WSformat documentation.
  

Fixed bugs and improvements in WSedit 0.91 (June 2000)

• Improved reading of Wordstar 5, 6, 7 files (footnotes, style sheets)
• recording a macro which exits WSedit now possible
• in "popup menu - options", you can set the background and (default) foreground color for each file type
  

Version 0.90 (March 2000) was the first version of WSedit, available only for OS/2.

I will also publish a Linux version in the future.