
Quick Editor and Son (TheGun) Version 1.1
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From the release of the original non-version numbered program, there has
been some very useful reviews and feedback to make improvements.

Quick Editor started life as a miniature programming editor and it is still
how it earns its living. This in part explains the pursuit of small size,
fast load and save of large files and the lack of word wrap. The programming
origin does not effect its usability, rather, it places some useful
functions into the hands of end users that are not common.

The tools menu was designed to run assemblers, compilers and linkers and
has some special notation available to do so but it also give the end user
the capacity to customise this menu to run the tools and toys of their own
choice without needing to be a programmer to use it.

Both Quick Editor and its offspring (TheGun) take advantage of very recent
software engineering technology to deliver performance advantages in terms
of speed and size.

Neither program will ever be for sale, they are offered freely from
reliable web site operators to put some genuine performance into the hands
of end users. If either program is useful, then it justifies the stripped
down approach that has been used.

  Changes to Quick Editor
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    1. Added right mouse menu support for the Tools menu options.
    2. Rationalised the menus into better groupings.
    3. Slightly brighter toolbar buttons.
    4. Added a version number.
    5. Reduced the executable size by 20k.
    6. Slightly changed the User & Tool setting dialog box for improved 
       readability.
    7. Fixed a display problem saving large files as other names.
    8. Extended the tab stripping capacity on the text menu.

  TheGun (Grown Up Notepad)
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Added the 18k executable called TheGun for people who like a very small,
fast notepad replacement. Quick Editor cannot be easily adapted to wordwrap
because of its text processing functions where TheGun routinely toggles
between wrap and non-wrap, even with large files.

It has the same 4 Meg load and save capacity as Quick Editor as well as full
system drag and drop capacity, it has the left side selection bar for line
mode selection which can be toggled on or off. It is as ugly and featureless
as notepad but it is faster, more powerful and smaller.

  What is Missing in Quick Editor ?
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    1. Printing capacity.

    Token printing capacity such as notepad which has no font selection
    or size adjustments is not worth the disk space that it would occupy.
    The code necessary to provide a useful printing capacity would be 
    something in excess of the current size of the editor which is not
    within the design criteria of this version.

    2. Tool tips.
    
    Tool tips were written into the original version of Quick Editor but
    the performance was so sluggish that they were removed. The toolbar
    buttons are very standard in their appearance so the removal of tool
    tips was no great loss.

    3. Word wrap.

    The small executable (TheGun) solves this problem for those who need
    word wrap. Quick Editor has a priority of text processing functions
    which make it difficult to impliment, even though the code is simple
    enough to write.


    Steve Hutchesson < hutch@pbq.com.au >
    Sydney
    Australia