Well, there are two more exceptions. Namely, the sister pedit's memo database must be installed, and sufficient free RAM real estate must be available for performing the export operation.

Note. If a pedit32 memo is segmented but it consists of one single segment only, then you can delete its segment header so that it would become exportable from pedit32 to pedit. However, you will loose the information which was kept in the segment header.

In order to be able to manage both pedit and pedit32 simultaneously, and in order to keep pedit32 memos apart from pedit04 memos, please keep the export segmented memos only box checked all the time when exporting from pedit to pedit32. This way your regular pedit04 memos will never end up in pedit32.

If you choose to delete exported memos and if you are in pedit04, then the $ave archive copy on your PC option will store deleted memos in an archive file on your DeskTop at the next HotSync operation.

Exporting is as smart as it [or, should I say, yours truly] could be. In particular, it will place the exported memo in the same category where it resided originally. If that category name does not yet exists in the sister pedit and if the will clone category names too box is checked, then it will create one. If the sister pedit has no vacancies for new category names, then the exported memo will go into the Unfiled category.

If a memo is segmented, then exporting it from pedit to pedit32 will assemble your memo and its sister segments into one pedit32 memo.

A pedit32 memo will turn into a segmented memo in pedit04 after an export operation unless your memo is less than 4K and you check the no segmenting if less than 4K box.

Each segment will fill up only 75% of pedit's 4K capacity so that you will have plenty of capacity avaliable for changes and further additions.

Note. I should point out that the exported memos get deleted from pedit only after the export operation went flawlessly so that your precious data are as safe as possible.

Here is a neat hint for you. If you want that all of your memos show up in your DeskTop Palm application, then do an export job of all of your pedit32 memos, then HotSync, then work on your memos on your DeskTop, then HotSync again, then export all your segmented memos from pedit04 back to pedit32. Just make sure that you always choose to delete your exported memos. Otherwise, you may end up with multiple copies.

Import Doc File...

Importing DOC files provides a means to move your pedit memos from the DeskTop to pedit with minimal effort. Using DOC files is especially recommended if your pedit memo, together with its sister segments, is longer than 4K so that using the standard route via your DeskTop Palm application becomes cumbersome since it was not designed the handle large memos.

The commmand Export Memo... in EditView's Record menu allows you to export your memos to DOC files.

Although the Import Doc File command is pretty much self explanatory, it is worthwhile to summarize it.

Invoking Import Doc File takes you to magiPad where all your installed DOC [including TealDoc] files are listed.

Once you familiarize yourself with EditView, you will be able to navigate here using all the powerful tools in it.

In order to speed up the operation, the list is not alphabetic. It tells you the title of your DOC files [with the card number and the uncompressed size listed as well].

You can think of a card as a hard drive. We can all foresee the near future when we will have dozens of cards sitting in our Palm computing devices providing zillions of bytes of available memory. Although no two different Palm files sitting on the same card can have the same name, files on different cards do not need to have uniquely defined names. Therefore, it is essential to know which card is the host of your file to be able to identify it uniquely.

It is interesting to note that many Palm aplications ignore this fact and, unlike pedit, they are hardcoded to use card #0 no matter what. As of July 11, 2000, all Palms have one built-in card only.

If you see an exclamation mark ! before the title of a DOC file, it means that the file is read-only and it cannot be deleted after you complete the import operation.

Tapping on the title of a DOC file brings up a dialog which is also self-explanatory except for the no segmenting if fits one memo check box.

If you choose the no segmenting if fits one memo option then your pedit will try to place the DOC file into one memo. Otherwise, it will break the file up into segments where each segment will occupy roughly speaking 75% of the maximum available memo size. This way you will have plenty of real estate left for editing your memos.

After you initiate the import operation you can sit back and relax. Depending on the size of your DOC file, the operation may take longer than you wish it did. For instance, a 1Mb DOC file import job on my Palm Vx takes about 60 secs.

Depending on your DOC file, you may end up being confronted by another dialog starting with "Hmm...". If you ever see it, I have no doubts that you will know what to do.

In case you end up never seeing this dialog, here is what it says: I believe that this file uses a unix [DOS] style end-of-line notation. Would you like me to convert it to the one used by the Palm OS?

ListView's Options Menu

Font...

This command allows you to change the display font in ListView.

Security...

This command allows you to Show and Hide your private memos on the fly. If you use OS 3.5 then you will also have yet another option which allows you to mask off your private records without removing them from ListView.

Palm's built-in Security application can also accomplich the same task.

Use the editPanel while entering your Palm password.

Password...

Use the editPanel while entering your passwords.

Clear History...

If you experience a crash which you think may be related to your pedit's history file, and if you are unable to start up pedit after the crash then use peditFixer which can do the same Clear History job and more...

For the technically inclined, the history of pedit04 and pedit32 memos is kept in the Palm database called MemoHIST and Memo32HIST, respectively.

Clear Preferences...

If you experience a crash which you think may be related to your pedit's preferences, and if you are unable to start up pedit after the crash then use peditFixer which can do the same Clear Preferences job and more...

Clear Deleted Records...

Total Cleaner Upper...

This command operates on peditPro only it performs duties similar to peditFixer [see troubleshooting].

Palm System Info...

Preferences...

This is ListView's Preferences... dialog.

Sort by Manual [order] allows manual sorting of memos by dragging them up and down the list. To drag, first pen down on a memo, then drag it to the desired order, and, finally, lift up the pen.

Sort by Alphabetic [order] sorts all the memos alphabetically. This sort order will overwrite the current sort order.

If the category of myNotes is fixed box is unchecked, then 000.myNotes inherits the current category in ListView every time it is invoked via the myNotes button. Otherwise, the category 000.myNotes remains fixed.

If the date stamped myNotes box is checked, then 000.myNotes gets a new date'n'time stamp every time it is invoked via the myNotes button.

If the top starting myNotes box is checked, then every new entry in 000.myNotes is placed in the beginning of the file if it is invoked via the myNotes button.

If the SilkScreen "FIND" is fancy box is checked, then the search routine via the SilkScreen FIND button allows to use certain options as described here.

If your Palm's OS is below 3.5, and if the white buttons under memos box is checked, then the buttonPanels are displayed in white. Otherwise, they are black.

As of OS 3.5, the buttonPanels are always displayed in the default color.

Note. There is another Preferences... dialog which is located in EditView's Options menu.

About pedit...

This command is explained here.

ListView's Navigate Menu

Visit Top

This is self-explanatory, isn't it? It takes you to the top of ListView.

Jump To...

This command allows you to jump to memos very quckly in ListView. You enter a number between 0 and 99, and upon activating the OK button, you will be taken to that area of ListView which corresponds the the entered number interpreted as a percantage of the total number of currently displayed memos.

Visit Bottom

This is self-explanatory, isn't it? It takes you to the bottom of ListView.

Find...

I provided this command for keyboard users.

Recent...

This command takes you to magiPad where all your recently visted files are listed in reverse chronological order.

Once you familiarize yourself with EditView, you will be able to navigate here using all the powerful tools in it.

This command is the same as the Switcher [">"] button in EditView's buttonPanel.

pedit keeps track of the last 25 memos you have visited since you last cleared pedit's history.

Tapping on any of the memo titles, pedit transfers you to the selected memo instantaneously.

Please see the Switcher for more details.

As a related and very convenient shortcut, if you enter "ESC }" in ListView then you are immediately taken to the memo which you visited most recently.

Switch

Please note that there is an even easier way to invoke Switch. Namely, tap in the left 1/8th of ListView's title bar, to the left from the small pixel visible just under the title bar.

ListView's buttonPanel

The New Button

This command is the same as the New Memo command in ListView's Record menu.

You can also start a new memo by simply entering any printable letter which becomes the first letter of your new memo.

The myNotes Button

In addition, ListView displays the myNotes button which takes you immediately to a memo called 000.myNotes. If such a memo doesn't exist yet, then it will be created upon tapping on the myNotes button. Once inside 000.myNotes", you can add quick notes to it.

Please keep in mind that peditPro has two modes, and the those two modes operate independently of each other. Therefore, you have two separate 000.myNotes". One in pedit04 mode and one in pedit32 mode.

The variety of uses of myNotes is limited only by the peditor's imagination. I use it for making quick reminders on how to improve pedit, for jotting down some really deep thoughts which come to my mind, and for keeping track of important world events such as how many Ann Landers messages deal with the quintessential toilet tissue in or out problem.

A great feature of myNotes is an optional date'n'time stamp which can be configured through the Preferences... command in ListView's Options menu.

You can also decide in the Preferences... command in ListView's Options menu whether you want your new entry added to the top or to the bottom of your 000.myNotes".

If your 000.myNotes gets filled up, simply rename it, say 001.myNotes, and then the game starts all over again.

The Export Button

This button is the same as the Export Category... command in ListView's Record menu. Another way of accessing it is via the "ESC e" command.

The Docs Button

This button is the same as the Import Doc File... command in ListView's Record menu. Another way of accessing it is via the "ESC i" command.

The Recent Button

This button is the same as the Recent... command in ListView's Navigate menu. Another way of accessing it is via the "ESC r" command.

EditView

When entering a memo from ListView, you will notice that the cursor is located at the beginning of your memo so that it is visible as opposed to Memo Pad where it is always blinking at the end, and, therefore, it is invisible much of the time.

I have removed Memo Pad's "feature" that the PageUp and PageDown buttons move to the previous and the next memo, respectively. I personally found this "feature" quite annoying but who am I to judge? Wheteher this was annoying or not, the issue is moot since these buttons have been assigned new roles which is explained here and here.

I have also added a useful feature that the characteristics of a particular memo such as cursor position, text selection, and scrollbar position are preserved when switching back and forth between pedit and other applications [why didn't they think of this?].

As soon as you enter EditView, please visit the Preferences... dialog which is located in the Options menu.

instantHelp

Let us discuss a new concept which I named instantHelp [© copyright Paul Nevai 1999-2000 & all rights reserved].

Use EditView's ? button or "ESC ?" to invoke instantHelp.

Once instantHelp is active, tap any button for an explanation of its function. Tapping "ESC ?" again terminates instantHelp and you are back to regular EditView.

Tapping anywhere while an instantHelp message is diplayed, terminates the message. Therefore, you don't need to wait until the countdown in the title bar reaches 0.

I hope the concept of instantHelp will become standard in all Palm applications. Any interested party should contact me regarding licensing questions and the instantHelp SDK.

Navigating EditView

Here is a short summary of the appropriate navigation commands in EditView

and within your memo use these shortcuts

Please look up in your graffiti reference how to enter the left-arrow and right-arrow characters. Basically, they consist of a left-right or a right-left job.

Please note that buttonShifted PageUp and buttonShifted PageDown are sticky, that is, until the next buttonShift, they do not change their currently assigned behavior unless you quit EditView. Isn't this cool?

For other methods of jumping from one place to another, please see the Jump to... command in EditView's Options menu or the "J" button in EditView's buttonPanel.

In addition, you can find some useful navigational macros here too.

buttonShifts

Let me speak for a moment of a revolutionary concept which I named buttonShift [© copyright Paul Nevai 1999-2000 & all rights reserved]. Using buttonShifts, some of the buttons in the buttonPanel can perform double duty roles. The way it works is as follows.

The bottom right corner area of the EditView screen, where the graffiti shift indicator resides, just right to the buttonPanel, is the sweet spot for initiating a buttonShift.

Once you tap there, a black rectangle shows up for a short period of time, and then a 2*2 pixel sized tiny black square indicates that buttonShift is on. You will see that a number of buttons will get inverted and remain inverted for approximately 2.5 seconds. Congratulations. You have just performed a buttonShift.

If you don't press a button for which the buttonShift is functional for 2.5 seconds or you perform an unrelated action, then the buttonShift gets deactivated until you activate it again. However, if you do press a buttonShift friendly button, then, as explained at the appropriate button descriptions, the action associated with that particular button will correspond to the shifted state.

Please note that once buttonShifted, the PageUp and PageDown hard keys are sticky.

I hope the concept of buttonShifts will become standard in all Palm applications. Any interested party should contact me regarding licensing questions and the buttonShift SDK.

doubleTaps

The Preferences... dialog in EditView's Options menu allows you to activate doubleTaps and to determine the time period during which the doubleTap indicator remains activated after the first leg of a doubleTap [100 ticks are equal to 1 second].

If doubleTaps are allowed, then, after each tap on a portion of the text, a small indicator shows up right above the scrollbar, and, while this indicator is active, a second tap activates the Select... comand in EditView's Options menu with the location of the taps properly filled in.

If you have MagicText installed in your Palm, then you can avoid undesired tap conflicts by performing the second tap sufficiently far away from the first one so that MagicText would not process it, and, therefore, pedit can take care of the double tap. In the latter case, you should study the ins and outs of MagicText so that you would know precisely if and when MagicText hijacks double taps.

The Titlebar Statistics

The displayable statistics is a summary of the state of your memo's capacity, the total number of bytes, the current cursor location, the coordinates of the current selection, if any, and the location of the cursor within the current line. The stats are displayed in EditView's title bar.

Here is an example:

means that 8% of your memo's capacity is filled, there are 346 bytes in your memo, the text between bytes 104 and 109 is selected, and the cursor is at position 4 in the current line.

The statistics can be toggled via the Stats on|off command in EditView's Options menu, or, even better, by tapping in the left 1/8th of the title bar [to the left from the small pixel visible just under the title bar].

While in magiPad, the statistics are always displayed, and, therefore, the above described pixel is invisible.

If there are more than 10,000 bytes in your memo [which only happens in pedit32] then pedit is running out of real estate in the title bar, and, therefore, the capacity information is omitted.

Maybe I should explain that if there is no current text selection, then both the beginning and the end of the selection are defined as the coordinate of the current cursor position.

If the statistics are hidden, then pedit looks like the good old Memo Pad so that, for instance, the current memo's category can be changed directly via the category trigger in the title bar [in addition to EditView's D button].

By the way, pedit is 100% MenuHack friendly. MenuHack users should tap the title area to the right from the above mentioned pixel. The same goes for the built-in MenuHack support in OS 3.5 and up.

As an experienced Palm operator, you know that MenuHack allows you to access the menu bar by tapping on the title of your memo, don't you?

Segmented Memos

Another solution is to create "virtual" memos. Such memos are, in fact, a collection of a number of memos which appear to be one from certain, but not all, points of view. This is the approach taken by all the DOC editors. This works but, alas, all the current DOC editors are low on both features and speed, and they all fall short of [my admittedly not low] minimal expectations.

EXAMPLE. Open up a large DOC file with either a DOC editor or a DOC reader, and try to select the entire text. Did you succeed?

Enter pedit. Just like DOC editors, pedit can create "virtual" memos of practically arbitrary size, but, unlike DOC editors, pedit does not completely hide the technical details of such memos from the user.

I call such "virtual" memos segmented memos, and I call the memos making up a segmented memo, its sister segments.

Another way of conceptualizing such "virtual" memos is to think of them as a book with individual chapters, or sections, or pages.

Once you learn pedit's export/import [see also here] business, and you start to examine your segmented memos, you will realize that the files have been split up without taking into consideration logical pauses in the text such as paragraphs, new lines. or spaces.

Such operations allow you to move your memos between pedits, and between your Palm and the DeskTop.

I will refer to such memos as segmented memos.

On the other hand, when you write your great Aborigine novel, and you decide to start a new section or chapter, then you will use the New Chapter command in EditView's Edit+ menu. This will place you into a new memo which is a logical continuation of your previous memo and which will be treated as such by many of pedit's functions.

When you are sitting on an important presentation, and you are taking notes with SkyIsLimit engaged, then your memos will be split up when you type a space or add a line.

The resulting segments are more structured. You could say that you started a new page.

In order to not confuse the situation even further, I will refer to the latter type of memos as consisting of segments.

Just like chapters in a book have headers, so do segmented memos.

Some peditors will view this as an annoyance, and some even asked me to hide such details from the user. Let me explain [some would say "rationalize"] my approach.

Just like with the entire Palm OS, one of pedit's underlying philosophy is that speed and efficiency are essential. Very few peditors will read "War and Peace" patiently while their Palm and pedit are processing their precious memos.

Therefore, pedit takes the approach that the segment information is kept with the memo itself in form of a segment header. This allows to minimize time spent on bookkeeping.

For instance, when starting up pedit, there is practically no time spent on searching various sister files where bookkeeping information is kept, and there is no need to update such information.

Note. There are two exceptions. First, pedit's preferences are loaded every time pedit is started. Second, pedit keeps track of the last 25 memos you have visited since you last cleared pedit's history [see the Recent... command in ListView's Navigate menu].

Of course, if pedit gave up Memo Pad compatibility, then each memo could easily store extra information hidden from the user right with the memo itself. However, the rules of the game are set by Memo Pad and new rules can be defined only in accompanying sister files such as MemoHIST for pedit and Memo32HIST for pedit32.

The structure of a segment header is as follows.

123456... #segment.0020#
2000/04/08 11:54:42 00DB2152
Title: [and here come the first 64 letters of the first line of your memo].
Category: [here is the category of your memo]
!DO NOT TOUCH THIS LINE OR ABOVE!

   ___________
  | <header1> |
  |           |
  | sister #1 |
  | ......... |
  | ..text... |
  |___________|

   ___________
  | <header2> |
  |           |
  | sister #2 |
  | ......... |
  | ..text... |
  |___________|
        .
        .
        .
   ___________
  | <headerN> |
  |           |
  | sister #N |
  | ......... |
  | ..text... |
  |___________|

Tip. If you have a segmented memo and you want to disassociate one or more of its sister segments from the memo, just change the header a little bit. For instance, you could change "00DB2152" to "tmp 00DB2152" in the above example.

Tip. If you have a segmented memo and you want to re-segment it [in order to even out the segment sizes], the easiest way to do it via exporting it and its sister segments to a DOC file, and then re-importing it.

Tip. If you want to combine several of your pedit04 memos into one pedit32 memo, or several memos into one DOC file, then please read here.

Tip. If you want to combine existing memos by adding segment links to them, then please read here.

Tip. For the most convenient way to transport your segmented memo from pedit to your DeskTop and vice versa, please read here.

Among others, segmented memos are used in exporting pedit32 memos to pedit04 memos [see the Export Category... command in ListView's Record menu, and the Export Memo... command in EditView's Record menu], in importation [see ListView's Record menu] of DOC files to pedit, and in the SkyIsLimit command in EditView's Edit+ menu.

magiPad

The MA button, that is, the M and A buttons in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here] are a story on their own. Hence, I will discuss them separately from the general description of EditView's buttonPanel. They allow you to enter magiPad [© copyright Paul Nevai 1999-2000 & all rights reserved] and asciiPad, respectively. The latter is the same as magiPad with an added ASCII table.

Think of magiPad as a giantic scratch pad which can save [almost] up-to 32767 [2^15 - 1] characters. You can keep anything you wish in magiPad. It is always at your fingertips, and it allows you to paste anything from it back to your current memo. The way it works is as simple as possible.

Here are the details. First, you enter magiPad either through EditView's M or A buttons. Entering via M shows a plain-vanilla scratch pad, and upon subsequent re-entries the state of the previous M visit will be restored, whereas the A button also adds a handy ASCII table, and puts the cursor to the very beginning of magiPad. In every other respect, the two methods are identical.

Once in magiPad, either you position your cursor just before a character and hit the Qopy'n'Paste button, or you select any text, and then do the Qopy'n'Paste job. You will be instantaneously transferred back to your current memo, and the newly pasted item will be shown highlighted. If, prior to entering magiPad, you already selected some text, then upon returning via a Qopy'n'Paste job from magiPad, your selected text gets replaced by the new newly pasted item.

Note. When doing a Qopy'n'Paste job, the usual 1000 character limit of the Palm OS on the size of copying to the clipboard does not apply.

Note. Right after a Qopy'n'Paste job, the Undo command in EditView's Edit menu and its sister "U" button in EditView's buttonPanel are not functional.

Note. If you change your mind after having accomplished a Qopy'n'Paste job, you can always undo it by using the Restore Memo... command in EditView's Record menu.

Of course, you should keep your favorite phrases in magiPad so that they are always available for instant pasting into your memos.

For instance, you could keep a short dictionary in it, or a thesaurus, or your publication list, or your CV, and so forth. The opportunities are limitless, up-to 2^15-1.

Some peditors go even further. For instance, Margret has a magiPad category in her pedit which allows her to have the functionality of multiple magiPads.

The ".C", that is, the ".Cancel" button enables you to leave magiPad without any further action except for possibly saving its contents.

Both the Preferences... dialog in EditView's Options menu and magiPad's "D" button allow you to decide whether or not to save the contents of magiPad upon exiting it. If you are bold enough to save the contents of magiPad, then the D button is displayed in bold font while in magiPad.

EditView's Fonts

The PopUp Font Trigger in the bottom right corner of EditView's screen and the Font..., command in EditView's Options menu allow you to change the display font in EditView.

Note. You can switching between the last two display fonts in EditView [even while in an editable magiPad] via the buttonShifted "U" button in EditView's buttonPanel or by "ESC U" [upper case "U"].

Thanks to Rick Bram, Steve C. Gilardi, Carl Osterwald, Ken Hancock, Harry Konstas, and Andrew Welch who allowed me to use their fonts and/or font utilities, pedit [except peditLight] has a number of custom fonts.

I strongly recommend using the mono-spaced fonts for regular text editing.

The only [some would say fatal] flaw of the original Profont family of mono-spaced fonts is that they are almost completely screwed up when it comes to non-standard characters, including the international characters [ASCII 128 and up, and even some between 1 and 31].

The reason for this defect is that that they were designed originally for the Macintosh, and then they were converted to the Palm as an afterthought. So, if you have a pre-4.09 version of pedit, please do not blame the creators of Profont.

As of September 10, 2000, and as of version 4.09, I have great news for all Profont lover peditors. Michael J. Rider got fed up with the above described situation, and, with the generous permission of Steve C. Gilardi and Carl Osterwald, he fixed all of them.

Hence, the Profont family in all current pedits is as perfect as the other mono-spaced fonts, that is Monaco, Courier, and TinyFont [aka HKFont] are.

I am not in the font designing business. Therefore, please do not expect me to create new fonts for pedit.

On the other hand, you are more than welcome to volunteer your services to the peditor community...

Finding and Replacing Text

I have invented [discovered?] and incorporated the [yet another] revolutionary magiFind'n'Replace and select'n'Search technologies. In addition, I put a twist on the search process via Palm's built-in FIND SilkScreen button. The latter is discussed here.

All find functions in pedit are unrestricted as opposed to Palm's built-in SilkScreen "FIND" which matches the beginnings of words only.

One enters the magiFind'n'Replace dialog either via the magiFind... command in EditView's Options menu or by tapping the "F" button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here].

magiFind'n'Replace which has two text fields.

The top one displays Please enter search string... or, if your memo in EditView has a text selction, then it displays that particular text, or, if a search string has already been defined, then it displays that search string.

For pedit's purposes, a string is any combination of characters in the 256 character ASCII table [excluding the '\0' character], including carriage returns and so forth (see magiPad).

Once you are magiFind'n'Replace, you can create an arbitrary search string of length not exceeding 255.

First, I tell you how to use the magiFind component or magiFind'n'Replace.

Once you finished composing your search string, and after the Ign[ore] Case, Top Start[er], and Wrap check boxes have been appropriately set, hit the FindIt button.

If the second text field in magiFind'n'Replace was left untouched or it is empty, then magiFind'n'Replace assumes that you initiated a search only operation and no automated replacement will take place.

Thus you will be transported back to your memo in EditView, and then magiFind finds the first occurrence of the search string in your memo.

Then use either the Find More command in EditView's Options menu or the "G" button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here] to find more occurrences of the same search string.

Please note that magiFind works in context in the sense that the found string always shows up in the middle of the text field. GNU aficionados will see the similarity betweeen this and "grep --context".

I will not insult your intelligence by explaining the meaning of the Ign[ore] Case check box except that I note for the benefit of non-native [broken] English speaking peditors that "case" refers to lower and/or upper case as in "pedit" as opposed to "pEdIt".

In case [no pun intended] you did not figure it out yet, the Top Start[er] check box allows you to decide whether to start the search at the beginning [top] of your memo, or at the current cursor position.

Similarly, Wrap means that the search continues at the beginning [top] once it had reached the end [bottom].

There is also a straightforward plain-vanilla way to search without entering the magiFind'n'Replace window, namely via the double duty select'n'Search Find More command in EditView's Options menu or the "G" button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here].

Just select a string and invoke Find More or hit the "G" button. This action will find the first occurrence of the same string in your memo located after the selected string. This can be repeated as many times as one wishes. When the end of your memo is reached, the search starts at the beginning of your memo again unless the Wrap option has been deselected.

Please note that both Ign[ore] Case and Wrap can be controlled from both EditView's Options menu (see Case yes|no and Wrap yes|no) and from magiFind'n'Replace as well.

So far I explained the case when the second text field in magiFind'n'Replace was left untouched or was empty so that you searched your memo only.

On the other hand, if you entered a replacement string into this second text field, then magiFind'n'Replace assumes that you want to conduct a full featured magiFind'n'Replace operation, that is, a "global search and replace" operation in professional lingo, and, assuming that there is at least one proper match, it takes you to the magiFind'n'Replace View where a row of buttons on the bottom gives you full freedom whether to find [Find], replace [Peplace], replace and find [R & F], or replace all [All R].

The "H" button is there for help.

Just hit the Done button when you are finished to get back to your memo in EditView.

If your search string has no match in your memo, then, instead of magiFind'n'Replace View, you are taken back immediately to your memo in EditView.

In addition, the the bottom row of buttons, magiFind'n'Replace View also displays the usual stats on the top, and gives you a summary of the search [F:] and replacement [R:] strings right above the buttons at the bottom.

If you initiated a replace all [All R] operation, you can always interrupt it by tapping anywhere either on the screen or the Graffiti input area of your Palm.

Note. If the replacement string is defined as "\0" then the matched string will be deleted from the memo.

Here is a neat trick. First copy a string, say "replace with" with the "C" button. Then select another string, say "replace me". Now use the "G" button to find occurrences of "replace me" and then hit the "P" button to replace it with "replace with". This can be repeated as many times as one wishes. The "G" button keeps searching for "replace me" and the "P" button keeps replacing it with "replace with". This is addictive!

However, the same can be accomplished in a more professional way via the "F" button.

Let me add that if you decide to turn off Ign[ore] Case then the "F" button is displayed in bold font. Similarly, if Wrap is turned off then the "G" button is displayed in bold font.

EditView's Record Menu

New Memo

Delete Memo...

This command allows you to delete your current memo and its sister segments. It is the non-batch version of the Delete Memo command in ListView's Record menu. Please see Delete Memo for further details.

Beam Memo

This command allows you to beam your current memo to another Palm. Even if your memo is segmented, it will beam only the currently displayed segment of your memo.

For a more sophisticated beaming operation of individual memos, whether segmented or not, please see the Beam Memo command in ListView's Record menu for further details.

The Beam Category command in ListView's Record menu is also related to this operation.

Print Memo...

This is the non-batch version of the Print Memo command in ListView's Record menu.

Print Selection

If you have Stevens Creek Software's PalmPrint, or TealPoint's TealPrint installed in your Palm, then this command prints out the currently selected text of your memo.

It is related to the Print Memo command in EditView's Record menu and the Print Memo command in ListView's Record menu.

Export Memo...

This command operates similarly to Export Category... command in ListView's Record menu except that (i) it exports memos individually, (ii) it also exports to DOC format, and (iii) it allows you to create an export header.

For the latter, please see the Add a Header command in EditView's Edit+ menu.

When you see this dialog

then you are in the pedit export mode. Please see the Export Category... command in ListView's Record menu for a detailed discussion.

When you see this dialog

then you are in the doc export mode. This mode is the inverse of the Import Doc File... command in ListView's Record menu.

First, select a title [file name] for your DOC file.

Second, decide if you want to delete your memo and its sister segments after the export operation has completed.

Third, if your memo is a pedit memo, then decide if you want to have an archival copy left on your PC.

Once you have made these decisons, hit the export this memo + all its segments button and pedit takes care of the rest.

For your convenience, pedit is smart enough to pick a proposed DOC file name. If the memo originated from a DOC file, then the original name is shown, or else the current text selection is used as the basis of a proposed name.

QUESTION. Why can't I export my memo into a compressed DOC file?

ANSWER. Quoting one of the US presidents, it is the speed, stupid. Simply put, crunching your memo into a compressed DOC file would take too much time.

HINT. If you want to combine several of your pedit04 memos into one pedit32 memo, or several memos into one DOC file then proceed as follows.

First, open up the intended first segment of your memo in pedit.

Second, create an [export] header using either the create export header button in this Export Memo... command, or the Add a Header command in EditView's Edit+ menu.

Third, copy this header into those memos which you want to export to as one single memo. Adjust the segment number 0010 appropriately.

Finally, export one of them to pedit32 or a DOC file.

Note. I should point out that the exported memo gets deleted from pedit only after the export operation went flawlessly so that your precious data are as safe as possible.

Save Memo

Such a saving takes place every time you open your current memo, that is, it also includes the times when you return from magiPad or you switch to your memo [see the Switcher (aka ">") command in EditView's buttonPanel].

As you edit your memo, there is absolutely no need whatsoever to use this command to save your memo, since when you quit pedit, or switch to ListView, or open up another memo, your current memo is automatically saved.

This is different from DeskTop applications where you must make decisions whether or not to save your files.

However, it happens occasionally that you want to save your current memo after a few editing steps so that later on you could restore it to its last saved state.

You can restore your current memo to its last saved state with the Restore Memo... command EditView's Record menu.

This command is related to the BackUp button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here].

Restore Memo...

Please see the Save Memo command EditView's Record menu for further details.

Insert Memo...

This will place you into ListView where you can see p04Insert... or p32Insert... depending on what pedit you are currently running.

Third, go to the memo you want to insert into your current memo. You can use any of the navigational tools, including the Switch command in ListView's Navigate menu which allows you to visit memos in the sister pedit.

Fourth, either hit the Insert Memo button [aka "ESC i"], or make a text selection, and then hit the Insert Selec'n button [again aka "ESC i"].

Note. In addition, to the Insert Memo or Insert Selec'n buttons, the title bar also reminds you that you are in the midst of an insertion operation.

That's all. You will be taken back to you original memo where the insertion operations gets autoMagically completed right in front of your eyes.

Note. pedit makes sure that you do not overstep the size limits of your current memo, and depending on the circumstances, it will warn you if you decide to insert too much text.

Note. If you change your mind and you want to abort the insertion operation at any time, just go to ListView, and hit the bottom button labelled .Return to the Open Memo Mode, or pick any of the batcher commands in ListView's Record menu with the exception of the Preview Memo command which can assist you in finding the memo you want to insert into your current memo.

Note. If you change you mind after the facts, then you can always use the Restore Memo... command in EditView's Record menu to alleviate the situation.

"OK" & ".C" buttons

If you are in EditView [but not in magiPad] then it takes you to ListView.

If you are in magiPad then it takes you to EditView.

This command is especially handy when EditView's buttonPanel [see also here] was removed via the Buttons on|off command in EditView's Edit+ menu.

For you convenience, if you are in EditView, then "ESC return" also activates this command.

In addition, if your current memo is empty, then "ESC ." takes you to ListView as well.

EditView's Edit Menu

Undo

This is Palm's built-in undo operation. It undoes [reverses] some of your most recent editing operations such as typing, backspaces, delete, Paste, and Cut.

Note. Palm's undo capabilities are rather limited. As of October 22, 2000, when 3.5.2 is the latest version of the Palm OS, the undo bufffer still holds no more than 100 characters.

Note. When undo doesn't work, sometimes you can save the situation by using the Restore Memo... command in EditView's Record menu.

This command is the same as the "U" button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here].

Cut

This command is the same as the "X" button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here].

Copy

This command is the same as the "C" button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here].

Paste

This command is the same as the "P" button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here].

Select All

Select...

As of October 11, 2000, this has replaced the original Select... command in EditView's Edit menu.

It has been my experience that it is usually the sophisticated peditor [as opposed to "newbies"] who uses this command. Therefore, many of the text selector commands are quite sophisticated themselves in nature. If you are willing to invest a little extra time to get acquainted with them, they will provide for you an easy way to select text within your memo very fast and very efficiently.

It may be a good idea to study carefully the description of the various text selector commands since not all of them operate in a completely self-evident fashion.

I also recommend that you study the Select... and Jump to... commands [see EditView's Options menu] simultaneously since they share many features.

Please do not forget to read this either. It explains how to repeat the last text selection.

First, let us discuss the top line in the pedit ... selector dialog.

When you start up the pedit ... selector dialog, you will see two numbers displayed in the vrom [from] and to fields. They represent the location of the first and last characters of the text which was selected [highlighted] just before entering the pedit ... selector dialog. If no text was selected, then these numbers coincide with the current cursor location.

Note. Please do not forget to read about doubleTaps which help you to fill in the vrom and to fields fast and efficiently.

Pressing the Select button ["ESC s"] takes you back to EditView and selects a range of characters in your memo starting with the value of the vrom field, and ending with the value of the to field.

The vrom [from] field allows you to enter a non-negative integer which will be used as the location of the first character of the text selection to be performed when pressing the Select button.

You may also pick the value of vrom field by pressing the vrom button [lower case "v"] which takes you back to EditView. Now you can either place your cursor anywhere in your memo, or make a text selection manually. Upon getting back into the pedit ... selector dialog again via the normal invocation of the dialog, the vrom field will be changed to the current location of your cursor in the former case, whereas in the latter case the value of the vrom field will be the beginning of the text selection you made in your memo.

Note. This may sound more complicated than it is. Just go ahead and try it. I am pretty sure that after the first experiment it will become rather self-evident.

Homework. Why did I spell from as vrom?

Hint. Enter "f" and watch carefully.

Similarly, the to field allows you to enter a non-negative integer which will be used as the location of the last character of the text selection to be performed when pressing the Select button.

Again, you may also pick the value of to field by pressing the to button ["lower case "t"] which takes you back to EditView. Now you can either place your cursor anywhere in your memo, or make a text selection manually. Upon getting back into the pedit ... selector dialog again via the normal invocation of the dialog, the vrom field will be changed to the current location of your cursor in the former case, whereas in the latter case the value of the vrom field will be the end of the text selection you made in your memo.

Note. The current values shown in the vrom and to fields are used by the various commands in the pedit ... selector dialog as the values of the start and the end of the current text selection in your memo.

Note. Although you can enter any [at most 5 digit] non-negative integer in the vrom and to fields, pedit is smart enough to recognize when the number in the vrom field is greater than the number in the to field. If the latter happens, then, prior to any action, the to numbers are switched. In addition, pedit also recognizes if these numbers are greater than the size of your memo. If this is the case, then again, prior to any action, the numbers are reduced to the size of your memo. In other words, in what follows, we may assume without loss of generality that the number in the vrom field is no greater than the number in the to field, and that the number in the to field is at most the size of your memo.

EXAMPLE. When you learn to use the Home button, you will see that the selection in your memo will end at the current value of the to field instead of the last highlighted character which was selected just prior to entering the pedit ... selector dialog. Of course, if you did not change the number in the to field, then the latter two values are the same.

Next, let us discuss the second line in the pedit ... selector dialog.

The Repeat # field allows you to enter a non-negative integer which will be used as the number of times the selected command will be performed.

Note. Just to make your pedit experiences more pleasant, entering "V", "T", or "R" [upper case "V", "T", and "R"] always selects the number displayed in the vrom, to, or Repeat # fields, respectively, and makes that field focused. In addition, please don't hesitate to use the following shortcuts.

Note. Just to make your pedit experiences even more rewarding, entering SPACE or TAB will rotate the focus between the three number fields.

EXAMPLE. For instance, if the Repeat # field contains the number "5" and the abs => push button is highlighted, and then you select the Word button, then the fifth word of your memo will be selected counting from the home position, that is, from top of your memo.

EXAMPLE. For instance, if the Repeat # field contains the number "5", and you select the bWord button, then you will end up selecting the range of characters as defined by vrom and to fields, and, in addition, five more words will be selected backward counting from the character whose position is equal to the number in the vrom field.

This may sound somewhat complicated and intimidating. However, just a few taps will convince you that it is easy and natural.

Note. If you are an experienced peditor, then it is self-evident to you that the ESC key version of the above two examples are

and

respectively.

Homework. What should and will happen if you enter

as an ESC key shortcut?

Note. When wanting to use the ESC key mechanism, please keep in mind that there is no need for an ESC key within the pedit ... selector dialog since there is no text field in it accepting alphabetical input [see here].

Now we will discuss the Home and End buttons.

The Home button selects all the text between the top [beginning] of your memo and the end of the current text selection as defined by the to field.

where ST stands either for a SPACE or TAB character. Note. In this case the value in the vrom field is irrelevant.

EXAMPLE. "ESC s T 13 h" selects the first 13 characters of your memo.

The End button selects all the text from the start of the current text selection, as defined by the vrom field, to the bottom [end] of your memo.

where ST stands either for a SPACE or TAB character.

Note. In this case the value in the to field is irrelevant.

EXAMPLE. "ESC s V 13 e" selects from the 13th character to the end of your memo.

Next, let us discuss the groups of triplet buttons in the pedit ... selector dialog.

Looking at the pedit ... selector screen, you can see three columns of five buttons each with labels bP%, P%, and fP%.

In each of the rows the buttom labels are very similar, except that the buttons in left column start with the letter "b" [backward], and in the right column they start with the letter "f" [forward].

In fact, typing the letter "b" once, puts you into a backward mode, whereas typing the same letter "b"again, takes you out of the backward mode and places you back to the default symmetric mode.

Simlarly, typing the letter "f" once, puts you into a forward mode, whereas typing the same letter "f" again, takes you out of the forward mode and places you back to the default symmetric mode.

In addition, there are two push buttons in the bottom right corner of the pedit ... selector screen called abs => and x <=>.

Pushing abs => or typing "a" puts you into the absolute mode, whereas pushing x <=> or typing "x" puts you into the symmetric mode.

Another way of changing modes is by typing "b", "f", or "a" [absolute], or "x" [symmetric] in any order you wish.

The title bar of the pedit ... jumper screen always tells you which mode you are in.

Note. If you use your stylus to tap buttons on the screen then you don't need to be concerned about the above described backward and forward modes although you still need to be able to differentiate between the absolute and symmetric modes. For the latter, just use the abs => and x <=> push buttons.

If you are in the symmetric mode, then the middle column allows you to perform various text selections in a symmetric direction, that is, both left and right, starting from the current text selection, as defined by the vrom and to fields. This is what I define as a text selection in symmetric mode.

If you are in the absolute mode, then the middle column allows you to perform various text selections starting from the home position, that is, from top of your memo. This is what I define as a text selection in absolute mode.

Note. The home position of your memo is always the beginning [top] of your memo and the end is the very end of it [bottom].

The left column allows you to to perform various text selections backward starting from the current text selection, as defined by the vrom and to fields. This is what I define as a a text selection in backward mode.

The right column allows you to to perform various text selections forward starting from the current text selection, as defined by the vrom and to fields. This is what I define as a a text selection in forward mode.

Notation. In the following discussion and tables "#" stands for the number which you entered in the Repeat # field. If the Repeat # field is empty or contains the number "0", then, depending on the function of the selected button, you may get a warning dialog reminding you to enter a number into that field.

Notation. In addition, we also use the notation "x" and "y" for the values of the vrom and to fields, respectively.

Now let us discuss the buttons themselves.

The three "Character" buttons bChar, Character, and fChar allow you to select "#" characters counting from the current text selection, as defined by the vrom and to fields. The details are as follows.

The bChar button selects the range of characters as defined by vrom and to fields, and, in addition, "#" characters backward counting from the character whose position is equal to the the number in the vrom field.

If you are in the default symmetric mode, then the Character button selects the range of characters as defined by vrom and to fields, and in addition, "#" characters are selected backward and forward counting from the characters whose positions are equal to the the numbers in the vrom and to fields, respectively.

If you are in the absolute mode, then the Character button selects "#" characters counting from the beginning of your memo.

Note. In this case the values in the vrom and to fields are irrelevant.

The fChar button selects the range of characters as defined by vrom and to fields, and, in addition, "#" characters forward counting from the character whose position is equal to the the number in the to field.

where "x" and "y" are defined here.

The three "Word" buttons bWord, Word, and fWord allow you to select "#" words counting from the current text selection, as defined by the vrom and to fields. The details are as follows.

The bWord button selects the range of characters as defined by vrom and to fields, and, in addition, "#" words backward counting from the character whose position is equal to the the number in the vrom field.

If you are in the default symmetric mode, then the Word button selects the range of characters as defined by vrom and to fields, and in addition, "#" words are selected backward and forward counting from the characters whose positions are equal to the the numbers in the vrom and to fields, respectively.

If you are in the absolute mode, then the Word button selects "#" words counting from the beginning of your memo.

Note. In this case the values in the vrom and to fields are irrelevant.

The fWord button selects the range of characters as defined by vrom and to fields, and, in addition, "#" words forward counting from the character whose position is equal to the the number in the to field.

Note. If the repeat number "#" is equal to "0" and you select word backward [bWord], then you will end up selecting from the beginning of the current word to the end of the current selection. Similarly, if the repeat number "#" is equal to "0" and you select word forward [fWord], then you will end up selecting from the beginning of the current selection to the end of the the current word.

EXAMPLE. If there is no current text selection in your memo, that is, "x" = "y" [see here] then

Note. However, there is a [useful] exception to the above rule when the repeat number "#" is equal to "0". Namely, if both the beginning and the end of the selected text happen to be inside the very same word gap, then that particular word gap is selected. This can be used to delete word gaps, that is, to join words.

Note. If the repeat number "#" is equal to "0" then the Word button is not functional.

Note. See also here for the effects of the status of the Smart [select] check box.

where "x" and "y" are defined here.

Note. Typing the number "NUMBER" above is optional. If you leave it out then its default value "1" is used as the "NUMBER".

The three "Sentence" buttons bZent, Zentence, and fZent allow you to select "#" sentences counting from the current text selection, as defined by the vrom and to fields. The details are as follows.

The bZent button selects the range of characters as defined by vrom and to fields, and, in addition, "#" sentences backward counting from the character whose position is equal to the the number in the vrom field.

If you are in the default symmetric mode, then the Zentence button selects the range of characters as defined by vrom and to fields, and in addition, "#" sentences are selected backward and forward counting from the characters whose positions are equal to the the numbers in the vrom and to fields, respectively.

If you are in the absolute mode, then the Zentence button selects "#" sentences counting from the beginning of your memo.

Note. In this case the values in the vrom and to fields are irrelevant.

The fZent button selects the range of characters as defined by vrom and to fields, and, in addition, "#" sentences forward counting from the character whose position is equal to the the number in the to field.

Note. If the repeat number "#" is equal to "0" and you select sentence backward [bZent], then you will end up selecting from the beginning of the current sentence to the end of the current selection. Similarly, if the repeat number "#" is equal to "0" and you select sentence forward [fZent], then you will end up selecting from the beginning of the current selection to the end of the the current sentence.

EXAMPLE. If there is no current text selection in your memo, that is, "x" = "y" [see here] then

Note. If the repeat number "#" is equal to "0" then the Zentence button is not functional.

Note. See also here for the effects of the status of the Smart [select] check box.

where "x" and "y" are defined here.

Note. Typing the "NUMBER" above is optional. If you leave it out then its default value "1" is used as the "NUMBER".

Note. I am sure you know that "Sentence" is spelled as "Zentence" above because "z" is the activator letter.

The three "LineFeed" buttons bLine, LineFeed, and fLine allow you to select "#" lines counting from the current text selection, as defined by the vrom and to fields. The details are as follows.

The bLine button selects the range of characters as defined by vrom and to fields, and, in addition, "#" lines backward counting from the character whose position is equal to the the number in the vrom field.

If you are in the default symmetric mode, then the LineFeed button selects the range of characters as defined by vrom and to fields, and in addition, "#" lines are selected backward and forward counting from the characters whose positions are equal to the the numbers in the vrom and to fields, respectively.

If you are in the absolute mode, then the LineFeed button selects "#" lines counting from the beginning of your memo.

Note. In this case the values in the vrom and to fields are irrelevant.

The fLine button selects the range of characters as defined by vrom and to fields, and, in addition, "#" lines forward counting from the character whose position is equal to the the number in the to field.

Note. If the repeat number "#" is equal to "0" and you select line backward [bLine], then you will end up selecting from the beginning of the current line to the end of the current selection. Similarly, if the repeat number "#" is equal to "0" and you select line forward [fLine], then you will end up selecting from the beginning of the current selection to the end of the the current line.

EXAMPLE. If there is no current text selection in your memo, that is, "x" = "y" [see here] then

Note. See also here for the effects of the status of the incl[ude] EOL check box.

Note. If the repeat number "#" is equal to "0" then the LineFeed button is not functional.

where "x" and "y" are defined here.

Note. Typing the "NUMBER" above is optional. If you leave it out then its default value "1" is used as the "NUMBER".

Note. Please do not forget that lines and ScreenLines are not the same objects.

The three "Paragraph" buttons bPar, Paragraph, and fPar allow you to select "#" paragraphs counting from the current text selection, as defined by the vrom and to fields. The details are as follows.

The bPar button selects the range of characters as defined by vrom and to fields, and, in addition, "#" paragraphs backward counting from the character whose position is equal to the the number in the vrom field.

If you are in the default symmetric mode, then the Paragraph button selects the range of characters as defined by vrom and to fields, and in addition, "#" paragraphs are selected backward and forward counting from the characters whose positions are equal to the the numbers in the vrom and to fields, respectively.

If you are in the absolute mode, then the Paragraph button selects "#" paragraphs counting from the beginning of your memo.

Note. In this case the values in the vrom and to fields are irrelevant.

The fPar button selects the range of characters as defined by vrom and to fields, and, in addition, "#" paragraphs forward counting from the character whose position is equal to the the number in the to field.

Note. If the repeat number "#" is equal to "0" and you select paragraph backward [bPar], then you will end up selecting from the beginning of the current paragraph to the end of the current selection. Similarly, if the repeat number "#" is equal to "0" and you select paragraph forward [fPar], then you will end up selecting from the beginning of the current selection to the end of the the current paragraph.

EXAMPLE. If there is no current text selection in your memo, that is, "x" = "y" [see here] then

Note. However, there is a [useful] exception to the above rule when the repeat number "#" is equal to "0". Namely, if both the beginning and the end of the selected text happen to be inside the very same paragraph trailer, then that particular trailer is selected. If EOLs are not included then the first linefeed is deselected. This can be used to delete trailer, that is, to join paragraphs, with or without joining lines.

Note. If the repeat number "#" is equal to "0" then the Paragraph button is not functional.

Note. See also here for the effects of the status of the incl[ude] EOL check box.

where "x" and "y" are defined here.

Note. Typing the "NUMBER" above is optional. If you leave it out then its default value "1" is used as the "NUMBER".

Note. Please do not forget to check what paragraphs really are.

If the Smart [select] box [upper case "S"] is checked, and you are selecting words or sentences, then all trailing strict spaces are also included in the selection. A strict space is defined as a regular SPACE or TAB character and a few additional exotic space-like characters which may depend on the particular Palm operating system.

If the Forth w[ord] box [upper case "F"] is checked then, by definition, words are separated from each other by white spaces only unlike in regular spoken languages where punctuation signs also separate words. For instance,if Forth rules,then this sentence contains ten words only.

If the incl[ude] EOL [EOL means "end-of-line"] box [lower case "i"] is checked, and you are selecting lines, then the text selection will also include the nearest trailing carriage return characters. This is is useful when selecting text which extends over several lines.

If the incl[ude] EOL box [lower case "i"] is checked, and you are selecting paragraphs, then the text selection will also include the nearest paragraphs trailers. This is is useful when selecting text which extends over several paragraphs.

Note. What the heck is a paragraphs trailer? It refers to the stuff you cannot see between paragraphs. It consists of SPACE, TAB characters squeezed between linefeeds [carriage returns].

The .Cncl [.Cancel] button ["ESC s." - but why] aborts the text selection operation and takes you back to EditView.

The Marker button ["ESC sm"] selects text in your memo depending on the current text selection, as defined by the vrom and to fields, and the marker [see the Set Marker command in EditView's Edit menu].

The rules are as follows.

If there is no text selection in your memo, that is, both the vrom and to fields have the same value, then tapping the Marker button selects text between the marker and the current cursor location as defined by the vrom field.

EXAMPLE. If both the vrom and to fields contain the number 1918 and the marker is located at position 1939, and you enter "ESC sm" then the text selction will contain all the characters from 1918 to 1939.

Homework. What will happen if you enter "ESC sV1945T1945m" instead of "ESC sm" in the above example?

When there is a text selection in your memo then the situation is a little more complicated.

If the marker position is outside the range of the selected text, as defined by the vrom and to fields, then tapping the Marker button extends the selection of the text to the marker.

EXAMPLE. If the vrom field contains the number 1914 and the to field contains the number 1918 and the marker is located at position 1939, and you enter "ESC sm" then the text selction will contain all the characters from 1914 to 1939.

Homework. What will happen if you enter "ESC sV1945T1956m" instead of "ESC sm" in the above example?

If the marker position is inside the range of the selected text, as defined by the vrom and to fields, then tapping the Marker button has no effect.

If you have a better idea what should happen in the latter case, please let me know.

EXAMPLE. If the vrom field contains the number 1914 and the to field contains the number 1945 and the marker is located at position 1939, and you enter "ESC sm" then the text selction will contain all the characters from 1914 to 1945.

Note. All the text selection commands are sticky in the sense that the last text selection command can be repeated by simply either doing a buttonShifted "S" job in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here], or by entering "ESC S" [capitalized "S"]. Of course, once you quit your memo or magiPad, the last text selection becomes history.

The original version of "Select..."

As of October 11, 2000, this has been replaced by the brand new Select... command in EditView's Edit menu.

I kept the old version of "Select..." in this manual for two reason. First, there are many peditors who are somewhat slow in upgrading their pedits. Second, this gives a chance to see pedit in progress.

This command brings up the text selector window which allows a myriad customizable text selections.

All buttons and check boxes can be activated by entering the first letters of their labels. Switching between the number fields can be achieved by entering SPACE or TAB.

Here is a neat example. Perform a doubleTap with the consecutive component taps in two different areas of your text. This brings up the text selector window where you hit the Word button. Voila, the words containing the two taps and, in addition, all the words between the two taps become selected.

If the smart select box is checked then all trailing strict spaces are also included in the selection. A strict space is defined as a regular space or tab character and a few exotic space-like characters which may depend on the particular Palm operating system.

If the Forth word box is checked then, by definition, words are separated from each other by white spaces only unlike in regular spoken languages where punctuation signs also separate words.

If the include EOL [EOL means "end-of-line"] box is checked then the text selection will also include the nearest trailing carriage return character. This is is useful when selecting text which extends over several lines.

As a convenient shortcut, in EditView "ESC S" selects all text in the memo just like the Select All command in EditView's Edit menu so that there is no need to open up the text selector window for this operation [which, by the way, responds to "ESC s"].

Another time saving shortcut in EditView is "ESC W" which selects the word surrounding the cursor.

Set Marker

Once a marker is set, you can always jump back to it from an arbitrary location via a tap on the "J" button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here], and then selecting the Marker button, or simply by entering "ESC jm".

In this case the marker will move to the current cursor, and the cursor moves to the original location of the marker. In other words, the marker and the cursor exchange their coordinates.

Once a marker is set, you can always select text from the marker by tapping the "S" button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here], and then selecting the Marker button, or simply by entering "ESC sm".

Please see here in the description of the Select... command in EditView's Options menu for more details about selecting text from the marker.

Note. If the text of your memo changes, then the marker is deselected automatically, and, therefore, it becomes history.

Visit Marker

If you have already set the marker, then use this command to visit it. It takes you to the marker, blinks it for a couple of fractions of a second, and then takes you back to your current cursor location.

Note. This command is different from jumping to the marker [see the Set Marker command in EditView's Edit menu].

Keyboard

Graffiti Help

Help...

magiPad in|out

This command is the same as the "A" button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here], and it is described in details where magiPad is discussed.

EditView's Edit+ Menu

Auto Indent...

This command brings up the Auto Indent and Shift Preferences window.

Auto indenting and shifting allow your Palm to be used as a serious program source code editing tool, and the opportunities outside the scope of programming are limited by your imagination only.

If you are a programmer, you don't need any explanation whatsoever. If you aren't, then let me just say that after you adjusted your preferences here, and if you enabled automatic indentation, then every new line inherits the indentation [the white space characters] of the previous line as long as neither Palm's built-in virtual keyboard nor pasting is used for entering text.

Since it is much easier to explain this on an example, here is one.

For instance, typing

# comment

the next line will have an autoMagic "# " ["#" and "SPACE"] in the beginning of it as long as you check the space character is white space and the extra white space character boxes and define the latter character as "#".

If you enter a carriage return after the word "comment" and then you enter "pedit" then you will have

# comment
# pedit

Did you get it? If not, please try it.

We will define the collection of characters which get reproduced by entering a carriage return to be the line indentation header.

In the example above the line indentation header consists of "SPACE" and "#".

If the allow automatic indentation box ["ESC a"] is checked then auto indentation in enabled.

QUESTION. How do I know if I enabled auto indentation?

ANSWER. Look for the small 2*2 pixel sized black square just above EditView's scroll bar.

If the space character is white space box ["ESC s"] is checked then auto indentation assumes that the SPACE character is part of the line indentation header.

If the tab character is white space box ["ESC t"] is checked then auto indentation assumes that the TAB character is part of the line indentation header.

If the extra white space character box ["ESC e"] is checked then auto indentation assumes that the character in the field next to the check box is part of the line indentation header.

The SPACE, TAB, and XTR push buttons determine which character gets added in front of the shifted line once you perform a right-shift [see EditView's Edit+ menu].

The two number fields below the push buttons determine the number of shift charaters which are added or deleted when performing right-shifts or left-shifts, respectively [see EditView's Edit+ menu].

Note. Just to make your pedit experiences more rewarding, entering SPACE or TAB will rotate the focus between the three entry fields. In addition, please don't hesitate to use the following shortcuts.

as long as the focused field expects a number input.

Shift Left

I recommend that you use one of the mono-spaced fonts while shifting so that you would have a perfect visual feedback of what you have accomplished.

If no text is selected in the current memo, then this command (i) selects the line where your cursor is currently located, and (ii) shifts the entire line to the left.

If there is a text selection in the current memo, then this command (i) selects all the lines surrounding your current text selection, and (ii) shifts those lines to the left.

The quality and quantity of the shift depend on the definition of white space characters and the size of left shifts which are defined in the Auto Indent... dialog in EditView's Edit+ menu.

Please keep in mind that a line is not necessarily what you think a line is. Please check out the definition of lines here.

The analogous right shifts are performed by invoking the Shift Right command in EditView's Edit+ menu.

Shift Right

I recommend that you use one of the mono-spaced fonts while shifting so that you would have a perfect visual feedback of what you have accomplished.

If no text is selected in the current memo, then this command (i) selects the line where your cursor is currently located, and (ii) shifts the entire line to the right.

If there is a text selection in the current memo, then this command (i) selects all the lines surrounding your current text selection, and (ii) shifts those lines to the right.

The quality and quantity of the shift depend on the definition of right shift character and the size of right shifts which are defined in the Auto Indent... dialog in EditView's Edit+ menu.

Please keep in mind that a line is not necessarily what you think a line is. Please check out the definition of lines here.

The analogous left shifts are performed by invoking the Shift Left command in EditView's Edit+ menu.

SkyIsLimit on|off

If SkyIsLimit is on then a "*" [sky => star] appears right next to the "H" button in EditView's Button Panel.

SkyIsLimit allows you to create 4Mb and 32Mb virtual memos in pedit and pedit32, respectively. Please note that I am referring to "Mb" and not "Kb". Of course, as most of you will find out, 32Mb is rarely reachable unless your sister works for one of those companies which make Palm clones.

This feature was primarily created for those peditors who hook up their Palm to an external keyboard [or the other way around, depending one's outlook on life], and then they pretend that they have a full featured laptop computer. Boy, they are right!

With SkyIsLimit you can take notes at meetings lasting hours and hours and/or you can write the great American [or any other nation's] novel right on your Palm.

The way this works is as follows.

If you are typing into a memo [except for the built-in virtual keyboard], and

• if your cursor is located at the very end of your text [where it should be unless you are editing an existing memo],

• if you filled up 75% of your current memo's capacity,

• if and you type a space or newline character, or
• if you are at the very and of your memo's capacity,

then a new memo

is created autoMagically which starts like

123456... #segment.0020#
2000/04/08 11:54:42 00DB2152
Title: [and here come the first 64 letters of the first line of your memo].
Category: [here is the category of your memo]
!DO NOT TOUCH THIS LINE OR ABOVE!

ANSWER. Turn on the displayable statistics.

When you do a HotSync job, you can join your segments on your DeskTop any way you want it.

Of course, you can also export your segmented memo and its sister segments into a DOC file using the Export Memo... command in EditView's Record menu, and then, by the time it hits your DeskTop, it will be a single DOC file.

Needless to say, this process is reversible.

I can almost guarantee you that you will love SkyIsLimit. Here is a tip. If you don't care for it, then don't use it.

New Chapter

Please see here for a more detalied discussion of segments vs chapters.

With this command, whether or not SkyIsLimit is active, you can always force the creation of a new segment whose segment index will be right after the segment index of your current memo.

If your current memo is not yet segmented then it will be given a header prior to placing you into a new segment.

Whenever you use this command, the segment indices of your memo and its sister segments get automatically readjusted so that if you added some segments manually to your memo then the new segment indices will be again in multiples of ten.

Go to Prev Chap

If your current memo is segmented and the current segment is not the first one, then this command takes you to the bottom of the previous segment of your memo.

If you are at the top of your memo then hitting the PageUp button has the same effect as this command.

Note. If the previous segment was already visited and it is invoked via the segmentSwitcher ["V" aka "$"] button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here], then the previous memo vitals are restored.

Go to Next Chap

If your current memo is segmented and the current segment is not the last one, then this command takes you to the top of the next segment of your memo.

If you are at the bottom of your memo then hitting the PageDown button has the same effect as this command.

Note. If the next segment was already visited and it is invoked via the segmentSwitcher ["V" aka "$"] button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here], then the previous memo vitals are restored.

Reindex Chaps

With this command, if your current memo is segmented, then the segment indices of your memo and its sister segments get automatically readjusted so that if you added some segments manually to your memo then the new segment indices will be again in multiples of ten.

Add a Header

A memo header

contains all the essential information regarding your memo which is used both in the SkyIsLimit feature and in exporting several memos into one pedit32 memo or DOC file. The details are explained here.

QUESTION. Why do I need to create header?

ANSWER. So that you can create segments manually which can be combined into one pedit32 memo or DOC file via an export job.

Once you have a header, you can use it as a template to paste it to the top of other memos so that they would create one family of segmented memos.

Please make sure that you adjust the segment number appropriately in each of the segments so that they would be ordered exactly the way you want it. Any (exactly) 4 digit number can be used such as 0002 and 1976.

Add a DateStamp

Buttons on|off

This command allows you to toggle EditView's buttonPanel [see also here] on and off.

When it is off, that is, when you are in the full screen edit mode, then the text editing field is slightly larger which seems to please many pedit aficionados.

I personally love the buttonPanel [see also here] and would never turn it off.

This selection is sticky in the sense that it survives visits to ListView and to other applications.

EditView's Options Menu

Font...

This command yields another way of changing fonts in EditView. Please see EditView's Fonts for more details.

Visit Top

This command allows you to examine the beginning of your memo. The location of the cursor remains unchanged. If you want to move your cursor as well, then please use the Jump to... command in EditView's Options menu.

Jump to...

As of September 11, 2000, this has replaced the original Jump to... command in EditView's Options menu.

It has been my experience that it is usually the sophisticated peditor [as opposed to "newbies"] who uses this command. Therefore, many of the jumper commands are quite sophisticated themselves in nature. If you are willing to invest a little extra time to get acquainted with them, they will provide for you an easy way to navigate within your memo very fast and very efficiently.

It may be a good idea to study carefully the description of the various jumper commands since not all of them operate in a completely self-evident fashion.

I also recommend that you study the Select... [see EditView's Options menu] and Jump to... commands simultaneously since they share many features.

Please do not forget to read this either. It explains how to repeat the last jump.

The Repeat # field allows you to enter a non-negative integer which will be used as the number of times the selected command will be performed.

Note. Just to make your pedit experiences more pleasant, entering "r" always selects the number displayed in the Repeat # field. In addition, please don't hesitate to use the following shortcuts.

For instance, if the Repeat # field contains the number "5", and you select the Word button, then your cursor will jump to the fifth word of your memo counting from the home position, that is, from top of your memo.

If the Forth w[ord] box [upper case "F"] is checked then, by definition, words are separated from each other by white spaces only unlike in regular spoken languages where punctuation signs also separate words. For instance,if Forth rules,then this sentence contains ten words only.

Looking at the pedit ... jumper screen, you can see three columns of six buttons each and another set of three buttons under them with labels bP%, P%, and fP%.

In each of the rows the buttom labels are very similar, except that the buttons in left column start with the letter "b" [backward], and in the right column they start with the letter "f" [forward].

In fact, typing the letter "b" once, puts you into a backward mode, whereas typing the same letter "b"again, takes you out of the backward mode and places you back to the default absolute mode.

Simlarly, typing the letter "f" once, puts you into a forward mode, whereas typing the same letter "f" again, takes you out of the forward mode and places you back to the default absolute mode.

Another way of changing modes is by typing "b", "f", or "a" [absolute] in any order you wish.

The title bar of the pedit ... jumper screen always tells you which mode you are in.

Note. If you use your stylus to tap buttons on the screen then you don't need to be concerned about the above described backward, forward, and absolute modes.

The middle column allows you to jump to various cursor positions starting from the home position, that is, from top of your memo. This is what I define as a jump in absolute mode.

Note. The home position of your memo is always the beginning [top] of your memo and the end is the very end of it [bottom] with the exception of ScreenLine jumps when home and end refer to the top and bottom of the currently visible screen on your Palm.

The left column allows you to jump backward to various cursor positions starting from the current position of your cursor. This is what I define as a jump in backward mode.

The right column allows you to jump forward to various cursor positions starting from the current position of your cursor. This is what I define as a jump in forward mode.

Note. If there is a text selection in your memo, then, in the context of jumping, the current cursor position depends on the direction of your jump. If you jump backward, then we define the current cursor position as the beginning of your text selection, whereas otherwise the current cursor position is defined as the end of your text selection.

Note. As of September 25, 2000, the only exception to this rule is when you perform ScreenLine jumps. As soon as we figure out a meaningful implementation of ScreenLine jumps with text selections, we will update this rule as well.

EXAMPLE. For instance, if the Repeat # field contains the number "5", and you select the bWord button, then your cursor will jump backward to the fifth word of your memo counting from the current cursor position.

EXAMPLE. For instance, if the Repeat # field contains the number "5", and you select the fWord [no pun intended whatsoever] button, then your cursor will jump forward to the fifth word of your memo counting from the current cursor position.

Note. If you are an experienced peditor, then it is self-evident to you that the ESC key version of the above two examples are

and

respectively.

Homework. What should and will happen if you enter

as an ESC key shortcut?

Note. When wanting to use the ESC key mechanism, please keep in mind that there is no need for an ESC key within the pedit ... jumper dialog since there is no text field in it accepting alphabetical input [see here].

Notation. In the following discussion and tables "#" stands for the number which you entered in the Repeat # field. If the Repeat # field is empty or contains the number "0", then, depending on the function of the selected button, you may get a warning dialog reminding you to enter a number into that field.

Now let us discuss the buttons themselves.

The three "Character" buttons allow you to jump backward [bChar] or forward [fChar] exactly "#" characters from your current cursor position, or to jump to the "#th" character [Character] counting from the top of your current memo.

The three "Word" buttons allow you to jump backward [bWord] or forward [fWord] exactly "#" words from your current cursor position, or to jump to the "#th" word [Word] counting from the top of your current memo.

Note. Typing the number "NUMBER" above is optional. If you leave it out then its default value "1" is used as the "NUMBER".

The three "Sentence" buttons allow you to jump backward [bZent] or forward [fZent] exactly "#" sentences from your current cursor position, or to jump to the "#th" sentence [Zentence] counting from the top of your current memo.

Note. I am sure you know that "Sentence" is spelled as "Zentence" above because "z" is the activator letter.

Note. Typing the number "NUMBER" above is optional. If you leave it out then its default value "1" is used as the "NUMBER".

The three ScreenLine buttons are perhaps the trickiest components of my beloved pedit.

Note. If you don't yet know what a ScreenLine is, please read about it here before you continue.

If you are brave enough to explore, you will be amazed to find out that, in fact, these three buttons hide no less [and no more] than six buttons. Namely, each of the three is spilt into two buttons.

The reason is simple. Each ScreenLine has two ends, namely, a left end and a right one. Since the Palm screen real-estate is at a premium, I had to do a splitter-upper job to be able to accommodate jumping to both the right and left ends of a ScreenLine.

Note. Typing the number "NUMBER" above is optional. If you leave it out then its default value "1" is used as the "NUMBER".

Identical commands allow you to jump to the "end" of ScreenLines except that you have to replace the lower cased "s" by the upper cased "S". Namely,

Note. Typing the number "NUMBER" above is optional. If you leave it out then its default value "1" is used as the "NUMBER".

QUESTION. How come that if the cursor is at the beginning of a ScreenLine and the previous ScreenLine does not end with a linefeed [carriage return], and I want to move to the end of the same ScreenLine, then I end up at the end of the previous ScreenLine instead of the current one? There is a similar problem if I use a repeat number "#" different from "1".

ANSWER. The Palm OS does not differentiate between the beginning of a ScreenLine and the end of the previous ScreenLine if the previous ScreenLine does not end with a linefeed [carriage return]. All peditors can verify this by turning on the stats in the title bar, and then by going to the beginning of a ScreenLine and entering a left arrow-character or a backspace Graffiti character. You will see that, if the previous ScreenLine did not end with a linefeed, then the stats remain unchanged, that is, the cursor position remained the same.

SOLUTION. Move your cursor to the right, and then do the jump.

The three "Line" buttons allow you to jump backward [bLine] or forward [fLine] exactly "#" lines from your current cursor position, or to jump to the "#th" line [LineFeed] counting from the top of your current memo.

Note. Typing the number "NUMBER" above is optional. If you leave it out then its default value "1" is used as the "NUMBER".

Note. Please do not forget that lines and ScreenLines are not the same animals.

The three "Paragraph" buttons allow you to jump backward [bPar] or forward [fPar] exactly "#" paragraphs in your memo starting from your current cursor position, or to jump to the "#th" paragraph in your memo [Paragraph] counting from the top of your current memo.

Note. Please do not forget to check what paragraphs really are.

Note. If the repeat number "#" is equal to "0" and you jump backward [bPar], then you will end up at the beginning of the current paragraph. Similarly, if the repeat number "#" is equal to "0" and you jump forward [fPar], then you will end up at the end of the current paragraph.

Note. If the repeat number "#" is equal to "0" and you are not inside a paragraph, then jumping backward [bPar] or forward [fPar] is not allowed,

Note. If the repeat number "#" is positive and you jump backward [bPar], then you will end up at the end of the chosen paragraph. Similarly, if the repeat number "#" is positive and you jump forward [fPar] or you are in the absolute mode [Paragraph], then you will end up at the beginning of the chosen paragraph.

Note. Typing the number "NUMBER" above is optional. If you leave it out then its default value "1" is used as the "NUMBER".

The three "Percent" buttons allow you to jump backward [b%] or forward [f%] exactly "#" percent of the total number of characters in your memo starting from your current cursor position, or to jump to the "#th" percent of the total number of characters in your memo [%] counting from the top of your current memo.

The Home and End buttons ["ESC j h" and "ESC j e"] move the cursor to the top and the bottom of your current memo, respectively.

The .Cncl [.Cancel] button ["ESC j ." - but why] aborts the jumper operation and takes you back to EditView.

The Gursor [Cursor] button ["ESC j g"] makes you jump directly to the current location of the cursor. This is especially useful when you visited another part of your [huge] memo, and you wish to get back to your current editing position.

The TopLeft button ["ESC j t"] jumps the cursor to the top left corner of the currently visible screen.

The Marker button ["ESC j m"] jumps the cursor to the marker location [see the Set Marker command in EditView's Edit menu].

In this case the marker will move to the current cursor, and the cursor moves to the original location of the marker. In other words, the marker and the cursor exchange their coordinates.

Note. When jumping, the cursor always ends up where one jumps to. This is in contrast to the Visit Top and Visit Bottom commands in EditView's Options menu which only visit the corresponding locations without actually moving the cursor there.

Note. Here are three convenient shortcuts [a la emacs] which can be used directly from EditView.

Note. Whenever it is feasible, the jumper functions work in context in the sense that the cursor shows up in the middle of the text field.

Note. Please keep in mind that the enumeration starts with "1". Hence, for instance, if you wish to jump the cursor to the beginning of the second line on the currently visible screen then you need to enter "2" into the Repeat # field. The corresponding keyboard command is "ESC j2bs".

Note. All the jumper commands are sticky in the sense that the last jumper command can be repeated by simply either doing a buttonShifted "J" job in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here], or by entering "ESC J" [capitalized "J"]. Of course, once you quit your memo or magiPad, the last jump becomes history.

The original version of "Jump to..."

As of September 11, 2000, this has been replaced by the brand new Jump to... command in EditView's Options menu.

I kept the old version of "Jump to..." in this manual for two reason. First, there are many peditors who are somewhat slow in upgrading their pedits. Second, this gives a chance to see pedit in progress.

This command needs no explanation, except that the myriad fields can be rotated by entering SPACE or TAB, and, in addition, a la Windows style, they can also be accessed directly by entering the underlined letters.

When jumping, the cursor always ends up where one jumps to. This is in contrast to the Visit Top and Visit Bottom commands in EditView's Options menu which only visit the corresponding locations without actually moving the cursor there.

A handy shortcut is "ESC N" which places the cursor to the top of the currently visible screen.

The cursor button makes you jump directly to the current location of the cursor. This is especially useful when you visited another part of your [huge] memo, and you wish to get back to your current editing position.

Visit Bottom

This command allows you to examine the end of your memo. The location of the cursor remains unchanged. If you want to move your cursor as well, then please use the Jump to... command in EditView's Options menu.

magiFind...

This command is the same as the "F" button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here].

Please go to here for more details.

Find More

This command is the same as the "G" button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here].

Please go to here for more details.

Case yes|no

This is just a handy shortcut to toggling the Ign[ore] Case check box in the magiFind'n'Replace dialog which is explained here where the magiFind... command in EditView's Options menu is discussed.

In a nutshell, this controls whether all find and search operations are case sensitive.

Wrap yes|no

This is just a handy shortcut to toggling the Wrap check box in the magiFind'n'Replace dialog which is explained here where the magiFind... command in EditView's Options menu is discussed.

In a nutshell, this controls whether all find and search operations are going to stop once they reach the end of your memo, or else, they will go back to the start of your memo and continue what they are engaged in.

Stats on|off

This command toggles the statistics displayed in the title bar.

Phone Lookup

Preferences...

This is EditView's Preferences... dialog.

The first two check boxes are explained where doubleTaps are discussed.

The allow double taps in the text box can also be activated by entering "a".

If the capitalization is automatic box ["c"] is checked then each sentence will automatically start with a capital letter.

Note. Due to the nature of the Palm OS, as of September 6, 2000, automatic capitalization only works in conjunction with text input via graffiti. Neither the built-in virtual keyboard nor external keyboards are affected by it.

If the display statistics in title bar box ["d"] is checked then the stats are on.

If the escape character is box ["e"] is checked then the ESC key mechanism is activated, and the character following this check box is your ESC character.

Note. If you want either SPACE or TAB to be the ESC character, then please enter "P" [capitalized "P"] or "T" [capitalized "T"], respectively.

Note. If the ESC character is either SPACE or TAB, then it will not show up in the text field following the escape character is check box since it is invisible. However, you can highlight it, and then it becomes visible.

If the ignore case during search box ["i"] is checked then the magiFind... and Find More operations are case blind. Please see the magiFind... command in EditView's Options menu for more details.

The linefeed is considered invisible option ["l"] is used by the visibilator. Please see the "V" button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here] for more details.

Regarding the save text in magiPad option ["s"], pelase see magiPad for more details.

Note. Just to make your pedit experiences more rewarding, entering SPACE or TAB will rotate the focus between the two entry fields. In addition, please don't hesitate to use the following shortcuts.

as long as the focused field expects a number input.

Note. There is another Preferences... dialog which is located in ListView's Options menu.

About pedit...

This command is explained here.

EditView's buttonPanel

The "U" Button

This command is the same as the Undo command in EditView's Edit menu.

The "X" Button

This command is the same as the Cut command in EditView's Edit menu.

The "C" Button

This command is the same as the Copy command in EditView's Edit menu.

The "P" Button

This command is the same as the Paste command in EditView's Edit menu.

The buttonShifted "P" Button

If you have Stand Alone's Clipper installed, then a buttonShifted tap on the "P" button sends Clipper into action.

Ain't that cool? You will feel even more exhilarated when you realize that if Clipper is installed then the "P" button is displayed in bold to remind you that Clipper is at your disposal.

I am pretty sure that fans of Silkyboard will like that Clipper and Silkyboard can co-exist inside pedit. If you use Silkyboard, then please un-check the Enable Clipper Menu in Clipper.

By the way, normally you paste with "P" which also gets invoked by "ESC p", so that it should be easy to remember "ESC P" which is yet another way of activating Clipper.

A word of caution. Some peditors reported a few sporadic and unreproducible crashes when Clipper was installed.

The "S" Button

This command is the same as the Select... command in EditView's Edit menu.

The buttonShifted "S" [aka "s"] Button

This command is explained where the Set Marker command in EditView's Edit menu is discussed.

The "J" Button

This command is the same as the Jump to... command in EditView's Options menu.

The buttonShifted "J" [aka "j"] Button

This command repeats the last jump. It is explained here, where the Jump to... command in EditView's Options menu is discussed.

The "F" Button

This command is the same as the magiFind... command in EditView's Options menu.

Please go to here for more details.

The "G" Button

This command is the same as the Find More command in EditView's Options menu.

Please go to here for more details.

The "Q" Button

You can also find out the serial number of your Palm if it exists, information about the sister segments of your memo, and so forth.

Amazingly, not all Palms have a serial number. Some clones do not have one. I wonder why.

The "H" Button

"H" stands for Help which is mostly context sensitive. This command is the same as the Help... command in EditView's Edit menu.

Please note that EditView's instantHelp, that is, the "?" button is related to the H button.

The "OK" Button

This command is the same as the "OK" & ".C" buttons command in EditView's Record menu.

It allows you to quit EditView and to go to ListView.

The "D" Button

If you are in the regular EditView and not in magiPad, then this command serves three functions.

First, this command allows you to change the category of your current memo [see EditView's Category Changer].

Second, it allows you to privatize your current memo Please see the Privatize Memo command in ListView's Record menu for further details.

Third, it allows you to delete your current memo. Please see the Delete Memo command in ListView's Record menu for further details.

If you are in magiPad, then this command allows you to decide the contents of magiPad should be saved. Please see magiPad for further details.

The "WC" Button

This command brings up the word count dialog and it requires almost no explanation except for the definiton of what characters, words, and lines are.

The definition of characters is obvious except that it also includes carriage returns which are called linefeeds in the Palm universe. For the technically inclined, chrLineFeed = ^J = 10 = 012 = 0x0A.

The definition of words is also more or less obvious, except that the total of the words up to the cursor or selection PLUS the selected words PLUS the words from the cursor or selection may add up to more than the total number of words since the cursor or selection may split words.

A word is defined as a group of characters not containing word separators. The latter are the space character, the horizontal and vertical tabs, the linefeed, the formfeed, and the carriage return characters.

EXAMPLE. pedit;memo is one word even if we suspect that there is a typo and we meant pedit; memo which is two words.

The definition of lines is also obvious except that it is somewhat different from the common sense definition, since it only counts linefeeds. Hence, for instance, a line may be counted as zero lines if it does not end with a linefeed.

More precisely, using the REGEX terminolgy, a line is defined as "^.*$".

It is a common misconception among inexperienced Palm users that a line is what you see as a line on your Palm's screen. Please keep in mind that what you think is a line is, in fact, only a "virtual" line which depends on factors such as what font is used to display your memo and how wide the text field is. We call such objects ScreenLines.

It may be better, although not entirely correct, if you think of a line as a paragraph. In the "virtual" sense this is closer to the truth than the above described ScreenLines.

The above seem to be in accordance with the generally accepted rules such as the ones used by unix wc (GNU or not).

As opposed to lines, we define ScreenLines as the "virtual" lines which are displayed across the screen of your Palm handheld device.

Since we talked about lines and ScreenLines, this is the right place to define paragraphs as well.

First we need to define WhiteLines. A WhiteLine is a line consisting of space, horizontal tab, and vertical tab characters only.

More precisely, using the REGEX terminolgy, a WhiteLine is defined as "^[\space\htab\vtab]*$".

As opposed to lines, we define Paragraphs as collection of lines which does not contain WhiteLines and which start either at the beginning of your memo or after a WhiteLine, and which ends either at the end of your memo or before a WhiteLine.

I hope that you will like the myriad pieces of information it yields.

This button was named in honor of the venerable unix command wc.

The "R" Button

With this command EditView's ruler can be toggled on and off.

QUESTION. What is the ruler?

ANSWER. The ruler is what 99% of the non-experts would call underline. It looks like underline, it smells like underline, but it ain't no underline!

If you think about, you realize that nothing is underlined. The ruler simply gives a visual reference where the lines are separated from each other.

The rule state is preserved until it is changed again. Try it. I prefer no underline [oops, I meant ruler] whatsoever but please feel free to make your own choice.

Please note that magiPad has its own ruler settings independently of EditView.

pedit and Neal Bridges' ClearHack are 99% compatible [after yours truly spent days to figure out how to do it].

The reason that I say 99% and not 100% is that a hack is a hack, and, no matter what, there can be no guarantees that a hack will work under all circumstances whatsoever, especially since operating systems keep changing and many hacks fall behind in their maintenance schedules as their authors' priorities change. This should be understood as a general statement and not as a claim specifically about ClearHack.

I am sure you know that ClearHack removes those annoying rulers in text fields, don't you? If you didn't know it then probably they don't bother you.

The "L" Button

The buttonShifted "L" [aka "["] Button

This command is the same as the Shift Left command in EditView's Edit+ menu.

The "T" Button

The "K" Button

The buttonShifted "K" [aka "]"] Button

This command is the same as the Shift Right command in EditView's Edit+ menu.

The "?" Button

This command brings up instantHelp.

Please note that EditView's H button is related to the ? button.

The "M" Button

This command is the sans ASCII table version of the "A" button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here]. It is described in details where magiPad is discussed.

The "A" Button

This command is the ASCII table enriched variant of the "M" button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here], and it is the same as the magiPad in|out command in EditView's Edit menu. It is described in details where magiPad is discussed.

The "B" Button

This command backs up either the current memo or, if there is a text selection, the selected text in the current memo [as long as it is not too long], and puts a date'n'time stamp on the backed up copy.

Most users will never experience a situation that their memo is too long to be backed up, but, if they do, then a clever dialog will pop up which explains why the operation cannot be accomplished.

If I may suggest, use the buttonShifted ">" button [aka Switcher] after a back up job to return to your original memo.

The "V" Button

This button invokes the visibilator command.

Have you ever wondered if that gap thing right there in your text is two spaces, or three spaces, or, maybe, is it a tab or a combination thereof? Worry no longer! Just invoke the visibilator and it shows you the spaces and tabs by replacing them with "·" [middle dot] and "»" [right pointing double angle quotation mark, similar to ">>"], respectively.

Feel free to edit your invisible characters as you wish. Then hit the "V" button again, and you are back to "normal".

If you want to see the carriage returns [linefeeds] too then please set the linefeed is considered invisible check box in the Preferences... dialog in EditView's Options menu, and you are all set.

The next time you invoke the visibilator, all your carriage returns will show up as ¶ [the pilcrow or paragraph sign, similar to the mirror image of "P"].

QUESTION. When my invisible characters were shown, I edited my memo, and now I have a mixture of spaces, tabs, linefeeds, and their visibilator equivalents in my memo. What a mess. How can I get my memo back to normal?

ANSWER. Just hit "V" twice. That should fix your memo.

The buttonShifted "V" [aka "$"] Button

The buttonShifted "V" button activates the segmentSwitcher which allows you to survey all the sister segments of your current memo, and to jump to either of them.

The segmentSwitcher can also be activated by "ESC 0" [zero] This command takes you to magiPad where all sister segments of your current memo are listed.

The first line tells you the total size of your combined segments. This number does not include the size of the individual header files.

The number in front of the title tells you the segment index of the memo segment.

An exclamation mark "!" instead of a colon ":" after the segment index and the sign "<=" at the end of one of the line refers to your current memo.

A number at the end of a line indicates that that segment was already visited, and the number itself tells you how recently it was visited, where 01 refers the most recenty visited segment.

Tapping on any of the segment titles transfers you to the selected segment instantaneously.

HINT. Use the "F" button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here] to locate your memo and then enter a carriage return [the return key on your keyboard]. It's a no-brainer.

Note. The segmentSwitcher is inactive if you are in [the genuine] magiPad, or if your current memo is not segmented.

Please see Segmented Memos for further details.

The ">" Button

This button is the same as the Recent... command in ListView's Navigate menu.

This command activates the Switcher which allows you to jump back to a large number of previously visited memos.

The Switcher can also be activated by "ESC 0" [zero] and by "ESC >".

The Switcher restores the state of your previous visits such as cursor position, text selection, scroll position, and so forth.

pedit keeps track of the last 25 memos you have visited since you last cleared pedit's history.

This command takes you to magiPad where all your recently visted files are listed in reverse chronological order.

Tapping on any of the memo titles, pedit transfers you to the selected memo instantaneously.

HINT. Use the "F" button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here] to locate your memo and then enter a carriage return [the return key on your keyboard]. It's a no-brainer.

Note. The Switcher is inactive if you are in [the genuine] magiPad, or if you have not yet visited another memo prior to entering the current memo.

WARNING. If you edited any of your memos with a program other than this particular pedit, whether on the Palm or on the DeskTop, it may be a good idea to clear both the history of recently visited memos and pedit's preferences. For further details, please see the Clear History... and Clear Preferences... commands in ListView's Options menu.

The buttonShifted ">" [aka "<"] Button

This command is the quickSwitcher which is a complement to the Switcher [">"] button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here].

A buttonShifted tap on the Switcher [">"] button takes you instantaneously back to your most recently visited memo.

The quickSwitcher can also be activated by "ESC }".

The "»" or ">>" Button

This command takes you to magiPad where all "pedit friendly" applications are listed.

Tapping on any of the application names, pedit transfers you to the selected application instantaneously.

HINT. Use the "F" button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here] to locate your application and then enter a carriage return [the return key on your keyboard]. It's a no-brainer.

I point out that if I define an application as "pedit friendly", it does not necessarily imply that the developers of that particular application have displayed a friendly attitude towards pedit. Although in the great majority of cases Palm application developers were cooperative and helpful, there were a few instances when I received cold shoulders while trying to clarify some issues.

I consider an application "pedit friendly", if it has anything to do with text editing or with programming on the Palm, and if peditors requested that it be added to the list.

I hope that the developers of the above mentioned applications will return the favor by providing a similar feature in their products.

The Launcher can also be activated by "ESC 1".

The buttonShifted "»" or ">>" [aka "«" or "<<"] Button

If you have Bozidar Benc's PopFavorites installed, then a buttonShifted tap on the "»" button pops it up.

How does one know if PopFavorites is installed? It's elementary, my dear peditor, and probably you have already guessed it: "»" is displayed in bold.

Otherwise, that is, if "»" is not displayed in bold, then a buttonShifted tap on the "»" button activates the quickLauncher.

The quickLauncher takes you to your most recently visited pedit friendly application [if there is such an application already].

PopFavorites can also be invoked by "ESC 2".

The quickLauncher can also be invoked by "ESC 3".

Another way of activating quickLauncher really fast is by tapping the upper left corner of the title bar in EditView [a 5*5 pixel area].

The ".C" Button

This command is the same as the "OK" & ".C" buttons command in EditView's Record menu.

It allows you to quit magiPad and to return to EditView.

The "Qopy'n'Paste" Button

This command is described in details where magiPad is discussed.

EditView's Category Changer

pedit Memos and Text Files on the DeskTop (for "newbies")

By the time you get to this section, there is an excellent chance that you will know of several ways of moving your pedit memos to your DeskTop computer and vice versa [see, for instance here and here].

Nevertheless, I have the example of at least one aspiring peditor who could not figure it out from the manual, and, therefore, he put together a cookbook style approach to the task. The rest of this section is based on Doug Boulter's advice. I am sure that many "newbies" will be grateful to him.

If you want to move your pedit memo to the DeskTop and the explanation here was insufficient, then please follow these steps.

Step #1. Open your memo in your pedit in EditView Open the pull down Record menu. Select the Export Memo... command. A shortcut for the latter is either using "ESC e" or the Palm command stroke and "e".

Step #2. Make sure the second line from the top in the pedit export... dialog says Export from pedit[32] to doc.

If it says Export from pedit32 to pedit or Export from pedit to pedit32,

tap the doc push button in the lower right corner to get the correct screen.

Note. pedit remembers the previous state of this screen. Thus, if you do not ever export to the sister pedit, you will never see that option screen again unless you select it.

Step #3. If you want to delete your memo after you export it, check the delete memos after exporting box. Enter the name you want the DOC file to have. You do not need to give it a ".pdb" extension. For example, this file could be called 00test.

Note. For your convenience, pedit is smart enough to pick a proposed DOC file name. If you have a current text selection in your memo then it is used as the basis of a proposed name.

Step #4. Once you have done all this, tap the export this memo + all its segments button.

Step #5. Do a HotSync job between your Palm and the DeskTop. On the DeskTop, look in the backup folder under your user name. You will see the file 00test.pdb. Note. On the Macintosh, this backup folder is called "Backup", in Windows it may be at "C:\Palm\USER\Backup" where "USER" is your user name, and under unix or linux it is probably "~/???" [but who cares anyway, since, if you use unix or linux, then you will never need to read this "newbie" tutorial in the first place].

Step #6. Use your "doc <=> text" converter (not included with pedit) to convert this DOC file to an ASCII text file. You may then word process it to your heart's delight.

Note. Doug's favorite "doc <=> text" converter is DocInOut. I use MakeDoc.

If you want to move a text file from the DeskTop to pedit and the explanation here was insufficient, then please follow these steps.

Step #1. Using your "doc <=> text" converter, convert your ASCII text file to a Palm DOC file with a ".pdb" extension. Make sure that you remember the name of your .pdb file.

Step #2a. If you are a Windows user then from the DeskTop, select this ".pdb" file for installation. Click the install button, then click the add button to select the file. When you have added all the ".pdb" files you want, click "Done". If you are using DocInOut, you can skip this step by clicking the box that says "Install After" which will then perform this step automatically.

Step #2b. If you are a Macintosh, unix, or linux user then simply follow the usual Palm rules of installing ".pdb" files. I have not yet met a Macintosh, unix, or linux user who did not know how to do this. If you are one of those, then please let me know, and then I will provide detailed instructions.

Step #3. Perform a HotSync job. This will load the .pdb file to your Palm handheld.

Step #4. Open your pedit. Go to ListView.

A trick here is to choose the correct memo category (located in the upper right corner of the screen) into which you want the freshly loaded DOC file to go. That saves you the step of categorizing the new memo which you are about to import. Tap the Docs button in ListView's buttonPanel [see also here]. A shortcut for the latter is either using "ESC d", "ESC i", or the Palm command stroke and "i". This tap takes you to magiPad and presents you with a list of DOC files which you can import to pedit.

Step #5. Tap the file you want to import from the list that comes up in magiPad. If the DOC file is writable, that is, it is not in the flash ROM, then decide whether you want to delete it after you have imported it to pedit. If yes, then check the delete doc file after importing box. Decide whether you want no segmenting if the doc file fits one memo. If yes, then check the no segmenting if fits one memo box. Then tap import this doc file button.

Step #6. Now your DOC file has been transformed to a memo, and you can put it in a memo category and/or [p]edit it to your heart's delight. Note. Please read about segmented memos in general, and about segment headers in particular, if you are curious about those odd lines

which appear at the beginning of your memo. If your memo consists of one single segment, then you can delete the segment header if you don't want it with no ill effects in pedit except that subseqent exportation back to DOC files will be much simpler if you leave it alone.

Bits and Pieces

Just make an index of the words or expressions you want to visit on a regular basis either at the beginning [I prefer this] or at the end of your memo. Then select the appropriate words and hit the "G" button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here]. Voila, your memo scrolls to your selected expression.

iambic Reader [contributed by Edward Faith]

Write HTML (HyperText Markup Language) code using pedit, then export to DOC format and read it with iambic Reader.

EXAMPLE. Writing "I absolutely love <b>peditPro</b>" will come out as "I absolutely love peditPro" in iambic Reader.

For your convenience, you can find a list of HTML tags with their definitions that are supported by iambic Reader here.

Note. A word of caution. As of September 29, 2000, I contacted iambic Reader's technical support by e-mail twice and they have not cared to respond yet. Therefore, I have some doubts about the degree of their dedication to their users. Hopefully, they will contact me soon, and then I will re-evaluate my opinion.

Arranger [contributed by ???]

The clipboard. If you think your clipboard is too small, you may want to try one of these.

ClipHack [http://www.deskfree.com/ClipHack.html]
[Note. ClipHack has a couple of bugs when ran on systems newer than 3.0, see here.]

Clipper [http://www.standalone.com/palmos/clipper/]
[Note.Some users reported a few crashes when Clipper was installed.]

MultiClipHac [http://www.palmgear.com/software/showsoftware.cfm?&prodID=1628]
[Note. I have no personal experience with it.]

MagicText [http://www.synsolutions.com/software/magictext/]
[Note. Make sure you have the latest version.]

Note. When you are in pedit, I removed the Palm Operating System's clipboard limitation of a maximum 1000 characters when using either the "C" button in EditView's buttonPanel [see also here], or the Copy command in EditView's Edit menu, or the Qopy'n'Paste button in magiPad.

EditView's Fonts. [based on advice by Jacques Turbi]

Use the standard fonts for browsing memos, Profont12 or Monaco for keyboard entry, Profont14 if without clean glasses, Profont10 for proof reading, Profont7 or TinyFont to get an overall document feeling, Profont18 to prompt key words when delivering a lecture, Profont24 to try to check if the escape "`" is really backwards or if the accents have the right slope (that's after "un repas bien arrosi").

More Bits and pieces

-rw-r--r--   1 nevai      110539 Sun Mar 03 02:00:26 1996 pedit.prc

Of course, pedit is not perfect. For instance, it can't tell the time and the date. Oops, bad example. In fact, it can, and does so in more than one way. Well, then what is it that pedit cannot do? The truth is that the list would fill maybe at least half a page or less so that I will leave this to the gentle peditor's imagination who is hereby requested to communicate to yours truly all the shortcomings of pedit with no delay whatsoever.

Speaking of dates, the careful peditor will note that I write dates in the form 1976/08/10. To be honest, I ain't no pervert, and in every day life I would write this as 08/10/76 but then people outside the US would think that I am patronizing them by not writing 10/08/76. Is this August or October anyway?

Turning serious, I find the YEAR/MONTH/DAY format the most logical way of writing dates which, on one hand, is completely free of any Y?K bug, and, on the other, makes comparison of dates a trivial matter.

By the way, 1976/08/10 is the most precious date of my life. If you guess why [and your guess is correct], then you may win a special prize.

QUESTION. Why is pedit so big?

ANSWER. Under its skin, pedit may be one of the most sophisticated Palm application ever. The full keyboard entry support and the myriad features make the program rather complex. Do you realize that pedit, in conjunction with a Palm computing device and an external keyboard, may make your laptop obsolete? If you must have a leaner version of pedit, please try out peditLight.

A MYSTERY. As Marv Waschke reported on October 15, 2000, when the display looks like this

xx32
xxxxxxx|1xxx

xx32|
xxxxxxx1xxx

xx3|2
xxxxxxx1xxx

Frequently Asked Questions [which have not yet been dealt with]

QUESTION. Why can't I customize pedit and decide which buttons should be visible in the buttonPanel?

ANSWER. Under construction...

QUESTION. Why can't the memo fonts be sticky?

ANSWER. Under construction...

QUESTION. Why can't I add line numbers to my memo in pedit?

ANSWER. Under construction...

QUESTION. Under construction...

ANSWER. Under construction...

Useful Macros

Many macros were contributed by Jerry Skelley. Jerry's macros can be downloaded from the files area of the peditors Forum.

Note. If the version of your pedit is below 4.17, please do not embed "ESC W" strictly inside a Palm shortcut since this command generates an "EvtEnqueueKey ('W', 0, 0)" job and Palm shortcuts generate "EvtEnqueueKey ()" jobs as well. The two "EvtEnqueueKey ()" jobs may interefer with each other resulting in weird scenarios, as Jerry has discovered. However, it is perfectly all right to define a Palm shortcut ending with precisely "ESC W".

Under construction...

Disclaimer and Legal Statement

Acknowledgement

It was Bozidar Benc who started me on this project, and who helped me out while I was learning the basics of Palm programming. I am sincerely grateful to Bozidar. Let me confess that I offered Bozidar co-authorship of pedit which he politely declined [I wonder if he knows something I don't]. I use this opportunity to draw attention to his marvelous Palm programs.

I thank Margret Rosenberg, the Editor of this manual, who volunteered for this project and who relentlessly kept advising me on how to make it more readable, more informative, and more user friendly.

I am also grateful to Alan Pinstein for sharing with me the source code of a MagicText plug-in, and, thereby, helping me to accelerate my original caseless search function.

Special thanks to Roger Lawrence for his RsrcEdit which is one of the handiest and greatest programming tools available for the Palm platform.

I also thank Rick Bram, Steve C. Gilardi, Carl Osterwald, Ken Hancock, Harry Konstas, Michael J. Rider, and Andrew Welch who allowed me to use their fonts and/or font utilities.

I also thank the CodeWarrior and Palm guys at Metrowerks and Palm OS and the mac guys at Apple started it all, especially the creators of the NeXT OS.

In particular, I borrowed extensively from the source code of Palm's Memo Pad, and I used the Palm SDK as well.

I am sincerely grateful to all the peditors who flooded me with bug reports, suggestions and recommendations for improving pedit. I hope I will not offend them if I mention by name a selected few only who for one reason or another contributed more to pedit's development than the others: Paolo Amoroso, Jennifer A. Brinn, Marshall Cline, Dafydd Gibbon, Monika Goehmann, Peter R. Grierson, Michael D. Hensley, Rick Hopkins, Carl Jacobsen, Jesse Jacobsen, Peter Korman, Casper Lassenius, Mark A. Mandel, John Newell, Margret Rosenberg, Jerry Skelley, Dirk Spackman, Howard Veit, and Jeff Wilder.

Closure

Sincerely,
Paul Nevai
peditor-in-Chief

Paul Nevai
E-mail: 2me@PaulComputing.com
Web:    http://www.PaulComputing.com

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pedit's Development History

February 1, 2000. Starting up EditView from ListView with a graffiti stroke or a letter typed from a keyboard places the cursor after the just entered character [this was fixed one more time on February 10, 2000]. Thanks Adrian and Mike for your bug report.

February 1, 2000. Tapping the upper left corner of the title bar in EditView [a 5*5 pixel area] launches PocketC immediately [if it is installed]. I deactivated this on February 9, 2000 [see the Launcher ["»"] button in EditView's buttonPanel].

February 3, 2000. Better interaction between doubleTap and text selection.

February 4, 2000. Created two versions of pedit. The regular pedit and the bigger [but not necessarily better] pedit32.

February 4, 2000. The cursor no longer disappears after changing the underline mode of the text field with the "R" button in EditView's buttonPanel]. Thanks, Carl, for your bug report.

February 4, 2000. magiPad can be entered either through both the "M" and "A" buttons in EditView's buttonPanel.

February 5, 2000. If pedit is assigned to a hard key then in EditView that key switches to ListView, and, if in ListView, then it changes categories.

February 5, 2000. Added smart selection of words [see the Select... command in EditView's Options menu].

February 5, 2000. Aligned some labels in the Select... dialog in EditView's Options menu. Carl and Harry couldn't stand how it looked like.

February 5, 2000. pedit.README was renamed pedit.txt. Phil wanted it since the ".txt" extension was more convenient for non-Macintosh users, so I did it.

February 7, 2000. Fixed a minor bug in the Security... dialog in ListView's Options menu when selecting text with no field focused.

February 7, 2000. Improved the "SHOW|HIDE" process [see the Security... command in ListView's Options menu].

February 9, 2000. Added the Launcher ["»"] button in EditView's buttonPanel. Thanks to all who requested it.

February 9, 2000. Streamlined the text selection procedure [see the Select... command in EditView's Options menu].

February 9, 2000. Cleaned up EditView's interface.

February 9, 2000. Added the Cursor button in the Jump to... dialog in EditView's Options menu.

February 10, 2000. Fixed the alignment of some items in some dialogs.

February 10, 2000. Optimization for saving the preferences [see the Preferences... dialog in EditView's Options menu].

February 10, 2000. Updated the Help... dialog in EditView's Edit menu.

February 10, 2000. pedit and pedit32 have their own individual icons.

February 10, 2000. Fixed a cosmetic blemish in pedit32 when switching off the stats in the title bar in a memo with greater or equal than 10,000 characters.

February 10, 2000. Starting up EditView from ListView with a graffiti stroke or a letter typed from a keyboard places the cursor after the just entered character [fixed it the 2nd time, see February, 1, 2000].

February 10, 2000. It is possible to have a registered version of pedit without the "added bonus" activated. Note. As of version 3.00, the "added bonus" has become obsolete.

February 10, 2000. Enabled the encourager [nagger] to register pedit.

February 10, 2000. Registration is confirmed in the Register[ed] button in the About pedit... window.

February 11, 2000. Added the Launcher ["»"] button in EditView's buttonPanel.

February 11, 2000. Added the Switcher [">"] button in EditView's buttonPanel, and removed the previous operational mode of tapping in the Graffiti shift area.

February 11, 2000. Reduced nagging: unregistered users are encouraged to register once out of every three times only when they open up a new memo.

February 12, 2000. The existence of a 2*2 pixel sized black square just below the title bar in the upper right corner of the screen indicates that the current memo is a pedit32 memo as opposed to a pedit04 memo [see Which pedit is my pedit?].

February 12, 2000. The user can enable/disable the escape character usage, and the escape character itself is user defined [see the Preferences... dialog in EditView's Options menu].. Great suggestion, Carl!

February 12, 2000. The user can enable/disable the automatic capitalization of sentences [see the Preferences... dialog in EditView's Options menu]. Great suggestion, Carl!

February 14, 2000. Fixed some incompatibility issues with MenuHack [see Titlebar Statistics]. Thanks, Marshall, for your persistent bug reports!

February 14, 2000. Fixed some incompatibility issues with ClearHack [see the "R" button in EditView's buttonPanel]. Thanks, Marshall, for your persistent bug reports!

February 15, 2000. Invisible characters [space, tab, and, optionally, linefeed] can be displayed or hidden via the "V" button in EditView's buttonPanel. Great suggestion, Carl!

February 17, 2000. Added support for Bozidar Benc's PopFavorites.

February 17, 2000. Added the Top Start[er] option to the magiFind'n'Replace dialog. Great suggestion, Carl!

February 17, 2000. Released version 1.08 of pedit.

February 18, 2000. Started working on version 1.09 of pedit.

February 19, 2000. Added the myNotes button in ListView's buttonPanel. with an optional date'n'time stamp feature.

February 22, 2000. Added a full featured memo Switcher [">"] command in EditView's buttonPanel This was requested by a large number of peditors. This is in addition to the quickSwitcher which was already implemented in pedit.

February 23, 2000. Entering "ESC S" in EditView selects the entire memo [as opposed to the key sequence "ESC s" which opens up the text selector window in EditView's buttonPanel].

February 23, 2000. Added support for Stand Alone's Clipper [see the buttonShifted "P" button in EditView's buttonPanel]. Great suggestion, Howard.

February 24, 2000. Added the optional [very sexy] inverted or black buttons Great suggestion, Francois.

February 24, 2000. Fixed a Switcher [see the ">" command in EditView's buttonPanel] related harmless bug which caused a "fatal exception". Danke schön, Monika, for finding the bug.

February 25, 2000. Fixed a Switcher [see the ">" command in EditView's buttonPanel] related harmless bug which caused to display incorrectly the number of memos in the category in the title bar after a switcher job. Merci beaocoup, Francois, for finding the bug.

February 26, 2000. Introduced buttonShifts for the "P", ">" and "»" buttons in EditView's buttonPanel. Clipper and PopFavorites users should especially rejoice. Toda raba, Yaakov, for the idea.

February 27, 2000. Released version 1.09 of pedit.

February 28, 2000. Development of version 1.xx was frozen with version 1.09 except for bug fixes.

February 29, 2000. Fixed a bug whereby all text selections made in the Launcher and the Switcher [see the ">" command in EditView's buttonPanel] were saved in the preferences database, and, thereby, caused some errors under certain circumstances.

February 29, 2000. Released version 1.10 of pedit.

February 29, 2000. Released version 1.11 of pedit.

March 1, 2000. Fixed a bug when magiPad was entered via the "A" button instead of the "M" button, and then if some text was selected in magiPad, then the vitals were saved in the preferences database. This caused some errors under certain circumstances.

March 2, 2000. Fixed a minor bug related to the array "myLauncherList[]".

March 2, 2000. Released version 1.12 of pedit.

March 3, 2000. Fixed a minor bug related to "EditViewInit ()".

March 3, 2000. Fixed a minor bug related to the standard editing functions "U", "X", and "P" in magiPad's buttonPanel

March 3, 2000. After pedit's expiration date, the user is given a grace period to install the latest version of pedit.

March 4, 2000. pedit 1.13 passed two sets of all 1000 POSE gremlins 1000 times without a single error. For the tests I used rom30dbg.rom and the Macintosh version of the "Palm OS Emulator 3.0a4".

### Gremlin_Search_Progress.dat ####
gCurrentDepth=9
gCurrentGremlin=999
gGremlinHaltedInError=0 [1000 times]
gGremlinSaveFrequency=0
gGremlinStartNumber=0
gGremlinStopNumber=999
gMaxDepth=1000
gStartTime=313929
gStopTime=34803697
gSwitchDepth=100
### EOF Gremlin_Search_Progress.dat ###

March 5, 2000. Fixed minor bug related to text selection when entering magiPad.

March 5, 2000. From now on if magiPad is saved then even the contents of a blank magiPad is saved as opposed to previous behavior when only a non-empty magiPad was saved.

March 7, 2000. pedit 1.13 passed one set of all 1000 POSE gremlins 2000 times without a single error. For the tests I used PalmOS33-en-iii-dbg.rom and the Macintosh version of the "Palm OS Emulator 3.0a4".

### Gremlin_Search_Progress.dat ###
gCurrentDepth=0
gCurrentGremlin=999
gGremlinHaltedInError=0 [1000 times]
gGremlinSaveFrequency=0
gGremlinStartNumber=0
gGremlinStopNumber=999
gMaxDepth=2000
gStartTime=196141418
gStopTime=302766727
gSwitchDepth=2000
### EOF Gremlin_Search_Progress.dat ###

March 7, 2000. Fixed a minor bug [a memory leak] when cancelling the BackUp ["B"] command in EditView's buttonPanel

March 7, 2000. Released version 1.14 of pedit.

February 28, 2000. Started working on version 2.00 of pedit.

March 2, 2000. Moved the entire pedit project from Palm SDK 3.1 to SDK 3.5.

March 5, 2000. Added Memo Pad 3.5 updates to pedit.

March 5, 2000. Implemented multi-segmented code in the pedit project.

March 9, 2000. Implemented the Security... [a la OS 3.5] and Password... commands in ListView's Options menu, and removed the "Security..." button from the "I" button in EditView.

March 9, 2000. Streamlined the registration validation.

March 9, 2000. Implemented automatic indentation [see the Auto Indent... dialog in EditView's Edit+ menu].

March 10, 2000. Implemented the Clear History... command in ListView's Options menu.

March 10, 2000. Fixed "Search ()" and "GoToItem ()" discrepancies between OS 3.3 and OS 3.5.

March 11, 2000. Introduced extra incentives for registering pedit. Non-registered users cannot save pedit's preferences.

March 13, 2000. Beaming now works properly with all Palm OSs between 3.0 and 3.5.

March 13, 2000. Implemented 4Mb [pedit] and 32Mb [pedit32] virtual memos [see the SkyIsLimit command in EditView's Edit+ menu].

March 15, 2000. Implemented left and right block shifts [see the Shift Right and Shift Left commands in EditView's Edit+ menu].

March 16, 2000. Fixed some scrollbar related bugs if switching between memos via the Switcher [">"] command in EditView's buttonPanel. Thanks, John, for being persistent in pointing out the bugs to me.

March 17, 2000. Fixed a major bug inherited from Memo Pad 3.5 which crashed the Palm under certain reproducible circumstances after using the new Security... command in ListView's Options menu. Memo Pad 3.5, as shipped in 03/2000, is defective! Danke schön, Monika, you did it again. You are an superb beta tester.

March 17, 2000. The FIND SilkScreen button now finds any string via pedit unlike via Memo Pad where it finds only beginnings of full words.

March 17, 2000. Fixed a bug related to "ctlSelectEvent" when I forgot to set "Boolean handled = true;" after doing a "CtlGetValue ()" job for a number of "CheckBox" items [sorry for being so technical]. Carl and Monika, you did it again.

March 18, 2000. In order to avoid screen update conflicts, if the Palm OS is at least 3.5 then the buttons are always displayed in the default color.

March 20, 2000. The greatly improved FIND SilkScreen button now can do a fancy searching job using the modifiers '!', '.', '^', '+' and ':'.

March 20, 2000. The "Title Casing" Button In Editview's Buttonpanel Now Works Just Like It's Supposed To Work In Emacs' Text Abbrev Mode.

March 21, 2000. The BackLight can be invoked by "ESC L" in both ListView and EditView [see Common ESC Commands].

March 21, 2000. The MENU SilkScreen button can be invoked by "ESC C" in both ListView and EditView [see Common ESC Commands].

March 21, 2000. The FIND SilkScreen button can be invoked by "ESC F" in both ListView and EditView [see Common ESC Commands].

March 23, 2000. The Launcher and Switcher commands in EditView's buttonPanel work in conjunction with a search via magiFind [see here] and then entering a carriage return [linefeed].

March 23, 2000. The fancy features of the FIND SilkScreen button can be turned off via the Preferences... command in ListView's Options menu.

March 24, 2000. Major improvements in displaying the stats in the title bar.

March 24, 2000. Fixed a bug whereby if in magiPad the selection exceeded the clipboard's limit then there was no warning and the Qopy'n'Paste operation resulted in error.

March 24, 2000. One step closer to 100% Palm OS 3.5 compatibility [in terms of proper display of various graphical elements].

March 25, 2000. Fixed a bug whereby after a right-shift the text selection was incorrect if the shifting operation did not succeed because the shifted memo ran out of real-estate.

March 25, 2000. Fixed a bug where the stats did not update if deleting more than undoBufferSize characters [as of August 31, 2000, undoBufferSize is equal to 100]. Thanks, Paolo, for finding this bug.

March 26, 2000. Fixed a minor display glitch involving the buttonShift indicator rectangle.

March 26, 2000. One more step towards a mature buttonShift concept.

March 26, 2000. New navigation commands in ListView and EditView [see Navigating ListView and Navigating EditView].

March 26, 2000. magiFind [see here] works in context now in the sense that the found string shows up in the middle of the text field.

March 26, 2000. The jump to cursor feature in the Jump to... command in EditView's Options menu works in context now in the sense that the cursor and/or the start of the text selection shows up in the middle of the text field. Thanks, John, for being persistent in demanding this.

March 27, 2000. The Switcher [">"] command in EditView's buttonPanel works in context now in the sense that the cursor and/or the start of the text selection shows up in the middle of the text field. Thanks, John, for being persistent in demanding this.

March 27, 2000. The speed of the search via the SilkScreen FIND is improved.

March 29, 2000. A myNotes related bug was fixed. This bug caused a crash if the memo "titled" 000.myNotes was hidden and the myNotes button in ListView's buttonPanel. was tapped.

March 29, 2000. Fixed a bug which consisted of the following. If in EditView a left-arrow, or a right-arrow, or an up-arrow, or a down-arrow were entered while the cursor was invisible, then the scrollbar did not update correctly. This is a bug in Memo Pad too. Thanks, John, for noticing it.

March 29, 2000. Completed the transition to SDK 3.5 and incorporated the new features of Memo Pad 3.5 into pedit.

March 29, 2000. Improved handling the built-in expiration date of pedit.

April 1, 2000. Implemented the Clear Preferences... command in ListView's Options menu.

April 1, 2000. Released versions 2.00 of pedit and pedit32.

April 1, 2000. Started working on version 2.01 of all pedits.

April 1, 2000. If pedit is registered, then the About pedit... dialog shows "Registered" instead of "Register".

April 1, 2000. The fonts in recently visited memos are now sticky. Thanks, Nick, for the idea.

April 2, 2000. If there is no text selected, then the "L" and "K" buttons in EditView's buttonPanel do the appropriate caser job for the character right after the current cursor position. Thanks, Yaakov, for the idea.

April 2, 2000. Fixed a minor bug where if pedit was terminated while in magiPad then the appropriate memo vitals were not properly remembered.

April 3, 2000. Fixed a minor bug whereby if there was no MemoDB present, then pedit had to be launched twice.

April 3, 2000. Nag reduction for un-registered users.

April 7, 2000. Added the feature that the GoType! ALT upArrow and ALT downArrow keys work the same way as the PageUp or PageDown buttons.
Note. Neither Memo Pad 3.5 nor its older versions cooperate with GoType! in this matter.

April 9, 2000. Full interaction between pedit and pedit32 via the Export Memo... command in EditView's Record menu, and the Export Category... command in ListView's Record menu.

April 10, 2000. Iimplemented the Clear Deleted Records... command in ListView's Options menu.

April 19, 2000. Fixed a GoType! bug which activates invisible buttons [e.g., "Command-Alt-b" activated "B" while in magiPad]. Thanks, Monika, for finding this bug.

April 27, 2000. Fixed an "index out of range" bug related to the Clear Deleted Records... command in ListView's Options menu.

April 30, 2000. Fixed a bug whereby if one entered magiPad from a blank memo, then upon leaving magiPad one could face a situation where pedit wanted to select text in a blank memo resulting in a crash.

May 2, 2000. Fixed a SkyIsLimit [see EditView's Edit+ menu] related bug whereby in pedit32 the memo splitting took place too soon. Thanks, Margret, for finding this one.

May 4, 2000. Fixed a bug where the screen occasionally froze when quitting the Auto Indent... dialog in EditView's Edit+ menu. Thanks to Carl, Paolo, and yours truly for finding this one.

May 4, 2000. Added the quickLauncher ["»" aka "«" or "<<"] button in EditView's buttonPanel].

May 11, 2000. Segment enumeration is incremented by multiples of 10 so that intermediate segments could easily be added.

May 18, 2000. Added the segmentSwitcher ["V" aka "$"] button in EditView's buttonPanel.

May 18, 2000. Added batch deletion of segments in EditView [see the Delete Memo... command in EditView's Record menu and the "D" button in EditView's buttonPanel].

May 18, 2000. Added full interaction between pedit or pedit32 and DOC files via the Export Memo... command in EditView's Record menu, and the Export Category... and Import Doc File... commands in ListView's Record menu.

May 20, 2000. Added the New Chapter command in EditView's Edit+ menu with fully automated segment enumeration.

May 21, 2000. Added batch changing of attributes [category name and private] of segmented memos via the "D" button in EditView's buttonPanel.

May 21, 2000. The PageUp or PageDown buttons at the beginning or at the end of a segmented memo, respectively, activates the segmentSwitcher ["V" aka "$"] button in EditView's buttonPanel [deactivated on 06/17/2000, see below].

May 23, 2000. Added the Reindex Chaps command in EditView's Edit+ menu.

May 24, 2000. Added the Navigate menu in ListView.

May 25, 2000. The default buttons [the ones surrounded by bold framed] can be activated by RETURN or "ESC RETURN" [see pedit and External Keyboards].

May 30, 2000. Introduced new help via the "H" button in EditView's buttonPanel

May 27, 2000. Added many new ESC commands.

May 28, 2000. Fixed a bug related to graffiti shifts when opening a memo via entering its first letter. This bug was present only if the OS is below 3.5. Thanks, Jirka, for noticing it.

May 30, 2000. Added batch deletion of segments, and change of categories and private attributes via ListView.

June 1, 2000. Added batch beaming and preview of memos in ListView.

June 4, 2000. Unofficially released version 3.00.

June 4, 2000. Started working on version 3.01 of all pedits.

June 5, 2000. Fixed a minor display bug in ListView when using the menu command to activate batch processing of memos [added a "MenuEraseStatus (CurrentMenu)" command].

June 5, 2000. Fixed a bug related to importing DOC files when the RAM is low. Thanks, Maxime, for finding it and for helping me with testing the fix.

June 6, 2000. Running out of code real estate - started segment #3.

June 6, 2000. Added the Go to Memo... command to ListView's Record menu.

June 6, 2000. Open the most recently visited memo via "ESC }" from ListView.

June 6, 2000. Fixed a bug related to entering magiPad when low on memory. Thanks, Maxime, for finding it.

June 7, 2000. Fixed a minor inconsistency when entering the Switcher via the Recent... command in ListView's Navigate menu or via the Recent button in ListView's buttonPanel, and then exiting it via the ".C" button. Thanks, Dafydd, for finding it.

June 7, 2000. Fixed a bug related to DOC files which had been visited by AportisDoc and/or TakeNote! prior to being imported to pedit.

June 7, 2000. Introduced a simplified registration of trial and expired versions of pedit.

June 8, 2000. Released version 3.02 of pedit and pedit32.

June 8, 2000. Started working on version 3.03 of all pedits.

June 8, 2000. Save and restore memos via the Save Memo and Restore Memo... commands, respectively, in EditView's Record menu. These commands are 100% optional to use. It is not necessary at all to save a memo since it is done automatically both when entering and when exiting EditView. However, Restore Memo... can always bring back the last saved state of the current memo.

June 8, 2000. If no selection is made and the "T" button in EditView's buttonPanel. is activated then the word surrounding the cursor is Titlecased. Thanks, Steve, for this great suggestion.

June 8, 2000. EditView's buttonPanel can be removed [see the Buttons on|off command in EditView's Edit+ menu].

June 10, 2000. Started to add printing capabilities to pedit [see the Print Memo command in ListView's Record menu].

June 10, 2000. Brand new ListView for segmented memos.

June 15, 2000. The "?" button in EditView's buttonPanel is displayed in bold when your memo is a pedit32 memo.

June 17, 2000. The PageUp or PageDown buttons at the beginning or at the end of a segmented memo, respectively, opens up the previous or next segment, respectively [see the Go to Prev Chap and Go to Next Chap commands in EditView's Edit+ menu].

June 17, 2000. Added an optional top starting feature to the myNotes button in ListView's buttonPanel. Thanks, Doc, for the idea.

June 18, 2000. The Switcher [">"] command in EditView's buttonPanel no longer shows the titles of hidden private memos. Thanks, Doc, for noticing this security breach.

June 24, 2000. If text is selected in a memo then the BackUp ["B"] command in EditView's buttonPanel backs up the selected text. Thanks, Dafydd, for the suggestion.

June 27, 2000. Added autoMagic magiFind'n'Replace [see here for more details]. Thanks, David, Kevin, and Peter, for the many subtle suggestions.
Note. If the replacement string is defined as "\0" then the matched string will be deleted from the memo.

June 27, 2000. Addded visual feedback of most "ESC" commands via inverted buttons.

June 29, 2000. Support for "Forth" style word definition in selecting text [see the Select... command in EditView's Edit menu].

June 29, 2000. "ESC N" places the cursor to the top of the current screen [see the Jump to... command in EditView's Options menu].

June 29, 2000. "ESC W" selects word surrounding the cursor see the Select... command in EditView's Edit menu].

June 29, 2000. Added "ESC return" = "OK" button in EditView. Also, "ESC ." = "OK" button in EditView if the current memo is empty [see the "OK" & ".C" buttons command in EditView's Record menu]. Thanks, Duncan, for the suggestion.

July 5, 2000. Implemented set marker, select from marker, and jump to marker [see the Set Marker command in EditView's Edit menu].

July 7, 2000. Fixed a bug which did not allow to turn on the Palm with the pedit-assigned hard button and then to remain in EditView. Thanks, Dafydd and Margret, for noticing it.
Note. Memo Pad in Palm OS at least up-to 3.5 still has this bug.

July 7, 2000. In peditPro, the Switch command in ListView's Navigate menu can be activated by tapping in the left 1/8th of the title bar [to the left from the small pixel visible just under the title bar].

July 7, 2000. Printing up-to 9 copies is allowed [see the Print Memo command in ListView's Record menu]. Thanks, Jim, for the idea.

July 9, 2000. Fixed a stats display bug which happened while switching from magiPad back to EditView . Thanks, Bodo, for finding it.

July 11, 2000. Added printing info to pedit's manual with links to PalmPrint and TealPrint [see the Print Memo command in ListView's Record menu].

August 22, 2000. Fixed a bug whereas exporting to a DOC file crashed if the memo was segmented and one of the segments was empty.

August 22, 2000. Released version 4.05 of all pedits and released peditPro "officially".

August 22, 2000. Started working on version 4.06 of all pedits.

August 25, 2000. Added the Visit Marker command in EditView's Edit menu.

August 26, 2000. Updated the recognized battery types in the Palm System Info... command in ListView's Options menu. Thanks, Norbert, for suggesting this.

August 30, 2000. Added the Insert Memo... command in EditView's Record menu.

August 30, 2000. Added the New Memo command in ListView's Record menu.

August 30, 2000. Released beta version 4.06 of all pedits.

August 30, 2000. Started working on version 4.07 of all pedits.

September 2, 2000. Fixed a bug in the Insert Memo... command [see EditView's Record menu] whereby if the current memo was empty then the insertion operation took place in the most recently visited memo instead. Thanks, Dirk, for finding it.

September 4, 2000. Fixed a bug in selecting sentences when the cursor was at the end of the sentence right before the sentence ending character [see the Select... command in EditView's Edit menu]. Thanks, Steven, for finding this bug.

September 5, 2000. Fixed a Switcher [see the ">" command in EditView's buttonPanel] related scrollbar bug in ListView whereby the scrollbar was not properly updated when switching between different categories. Amazingly, this bug went unnoticed for such a long time and it was I who found it.

September 5, 2000. Started working on the brand new Jump to... command in EditView's Options menu.

Note. Entering "ESC A" in EditView jumps the cursor to the beginning of the ScreenLine, whereas "ESC E" in EditView jumps the cursor to the end of the ScreenLine [still beta!!!].

September 5, 2000. Released beta version 4.07 of all pedits.

September 5, 2000. Started working on version 4.08 of all pedits.

September 6, 2000. Continued working on the brand new Jump to... command in EditView's Options menu.

September 10, 2000. The Palm version of the Profont family has been fixed by Michael J. Rider [see EditView's Fonts].

September 12, 2000. Released beta version 4.09 of all pedits.

September 12, 2000. Started working on version 4.10 of all pedits.

September 14, 2000. Released beta version 4.10 of all pedits.

September 14, 2000. Started working on version 4.11 of all pedits.

September 16, 2000. Michael J. Rider completed version 1.02 of his Palm version of the Profont family [see EditView's Fonts].

September 18, 2000. Added paragraph jumps to the Jump to... command in EditView's Options menu. Thanks, Jesse, for suggesting it.

September 18, 2000. Released beta version 4.11 of all pedits.

September 18, 2000. Started working on version 4.12 of all pedits.

September 19, 2000. Added brackets to the date'n'time stamp in myNotes. Thanks, John, for the idea.

September 20, 2000. The Jump to... command in EditView's Options menu was made sticky. Thanks, Jerry, for suggesting it.

September 20, 2000. The role of "ESC J" was changed from initiating a jump to the marker [see the Set Marker command in EditView's Edit menu] to repeating the last jump [see here and the Jump to... command in EditView's Options].

September 20, 2000. Released beta version 4.12 of all pedits.

September 20, 2000. Started working on version 4.13 of all pedits.

September 20, 2000. Added double blinking to buttons invoked by ESC equivalents of their buttonShifted versions.

September 20, 2000. Released beta version 4.13 of all pedits.

September 20, 2000. Started working on version 4.14 of all pedits.

September 21, 2000. Fixed a bug which caused the destruction of the current memo if a right shift [see EditView's Edit+ menu] was performed while in magiPad.

September 21, 2000. Released version 4.14 of all pedits.

September 21, 2000. Started working on version 4.15 of all pedits.

September 22, 2000. Started working on the brand new Select... command in EditView's Options menu.

Note. While under construction, the new selection window will be invoked via "ESC G".

September 28, 2000. Released version 4.15 of all pedits.

September 28, 2000. Started working on version 4.16 of all pedits.

October 1, 2000. Entering myNotes via ListView's buttonPanel capitalizes the first graffiti character if the capitalization is automatic box is checked in the Preferences... dialog in EditView's Options menu. Thanks, Dan, for the idea.

October 2, 2000. Released version 4.16 of all pedits.

October 2, 2000. Started working on version 4.17 of all pedits.

October 5, 2000. Fixed a bug whereby there was a crash on POSE if the Palm OS was 3.5 (debug) and pedit was started up via a sysAppLaunchCmdGoTo launch code. The reason for the crash was that in OS 3.5 the function FldScrollField () should not be used prior to FrmDrawForm (). Needless to say that this is undocumented in the Palm SDK. Thanks, Fred, for helping me to find this bug.

October 5, 2000. Released version 4.17 of all pedits.

October 5, 2000. Started working on version 4.18 of all pedits.

October 7, 2000. Removed the Palm Operating System's clipboard limitation of a maximum 1000 characters when using either the "C" button in EditView's buttonPanel, or the Copy command in EditView's Edit menu, or the Qopy'n'Paste button in magiPad. Thanks, Jesse, for the suggestion.

October 7, 2000. Released version 4.18 of all pedits.

October 7, 2000. Started working on version 4.19 of all pedits.

October 9, 2000. Fixed a bug whereby, if (i) a marker was selected in a memo, (ii) a new memo was created, and (iii) one tried to use the marker set in the previous memo, then it resulted in a crash.

October 10, 2000. The marker is deselected automatically if the text of the memo changes.

October 13, 2000. Fixed a bug whereby pedit crashed if "ESC i" was invoked during a memo insert process [see EditView's Record menu] while EditView's buttonPanel was off [see the Buttons on|off command in EditView's Edit+ menu]. Thanks, Jesse, for the bug report.

October 17, 2000. The entry fields in all dialogs can be controlled by

as long as the focused field expects a number input.

October 18, 2000. Released version 4.20 of all pedits.

October 18, 2000. Started working on version 4.21 of all pedits.

October 20, 2000. Added an optional fixed category feature to the myNotes button in ListView's buttonPanel. Thanks, Jennifer, for insisting on this feature.

October 21, 2000. Added a date'n'time stamper [see the Add a DateStamp command in EditView's Edit+ menu]. Thanks, Rick, for the idea.

October 21, 2000. Released versions 4.21 and 4.22 of all pedits.

October 21, 2000. Started working on version 4.23 of all pedits.

October 21, 2000. Switching between the last two fonts in EditView via the buttonShifted "U" button in EditView's buttonPanel or by "ESC U". Thanks, ???, for the idea.

October 23, 2000. Found and fixed three bugs in conjunction with the fancy feature of the FIND SilkScreen button.

October 23, 2000. Released versions 4.23 of all pedits.

October 23, 2000. Started working on version 4.24 of all pedits.

October 30, 2000. Either SPACE or TAB can be picked as ESC character [see the Preferences... dialog in EditView's Options menu].

October 30, 2000. Released versions 5.00 of all pedits.

October 30, 2000. Started working on version 5.01 of all pedits.

October 31, 2000. Fixed a bug in the right shift command [see EditView's Edit+ menu] which caused improper screen display refreshment if no shifting took place. In addition, I also did a minor optimization of the shifting process. Thanks, Kim, for discovering this really odd bug.

November 10, 2000. Released versions 5.01 of all pedits.

November 10, 2000. Started working on version 5.02 of all pedits.

December 7, 2000. The "ESC" character can be any character of the extended 256 character ASCII coode with a few exceptions in the "a-z" and "A-Z" range [I am not sure that this will work on all international Palms]. Thanks, Mark, for the suggestion.