Suggestion : print pages in reverse order.
Word perfect 7 does that. Lately, I've not been using the large programs that come in suites. Big, slow, clunky. Excellent features but they're not always needed for straight forward jobs. And no help for html. (I have the ms suites too but like them less than corel - which impresses me more and more all the time) Anyway, try printing thirty, fifty or a hundred pages on a canon bubble jet. Page one lands face up. Page two lands face up and on top of page one. Once the job is completed, I'm faced with the task of flipping all the pages around so they read front to back instead of the back page first. I still like the tabs for each open document rather than floating windows inside the program. Try having thirty or more docs open at once and you'll see what I mean. Most spread sheets do that too, but at the bottom of the page, rather than the top like editpad. Editpad creates docs on the fly, whereas spread sheets are fixed. A,B,C...AA,BB,CC etc. Anyway, reverse printing would be a priority for me. I still use editpad primarily...cuz of the tabs. But reverse printing, for my non-mtm work, would sure tip the scales. Either that or I goto word perfect for the sake of printing only. Problem with that is I start looking at pagination. I would suggest that you include a line that can be set for page length, or even margins, that way I could see where one page would end and another begins. But I don't like getting caught up like that. I really prefer one long sheet and let the printer do what it has to. Too much time wasted trying to make things fit. While I'm here, just thought I'd let you know I will not be getting the new edit pad. He's got way too much stuff in there now. I think he kind of lost sight of his original goal which was to create a lean and mean text editor. Now he's got hex editing and all sort of other stuff built into it. Color coding html might be nice but not at all necessary. Lastly, forgotten topic or program? No way. Text is everything. I was working tonight and had a couple large print jobs, so I thought I'd come here and let you know what I was thinking. Better do it while it's on my mind. You can get to this in your own good time...when you're finished with binedit. That is, if it, this, is still a work in progress.
More suggestions:
- Word wrap
- Print Preview (I was afraid to click print since I didn't know what would happen. I mean, does it just goto printer or is there a option box). P.S. I just checked out the print thing. There's an option box that contains a wrap option - for the printer, not on screen.
- row and column counts could each have their own block in the status bar. Fixed width is nice for something like that.
- Close
- Exit
One more suggestion.
Either, quick buttons that drop in predefined text at the cursor. Or. definable macro buttons that can be programmed like a quick button but which the user defines what it will dump in the active doc. Either can be added to the existing toolbar, if the buttons there are made smaller. Or on thier own toolbar below the one that's there now.
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Bug report - slow discoveries
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<ul>[*]I start to get a funny vertcal character | at the right side of the page when not at end of line. Also, spaces, lots of them, are padded onto the end of some longer lines.</li>
[*]Update. Doh, that's no vertical line, it's the cursor. Can we get an underline cursor rather than the vertical cursor? Not a priority tho, especially if the problem gets fixed.</li>
[*]Also, I couldn't get to the very end of some lines. I think that's how I got turned around on the line vs cursor thing. Place cursor below the line you want, then arrow key left. It should take you past the carriage return and place you at the end of the previous line. Most times it works but sometimes the cursor ends up in the middle of a word...I don't know if it's the last word or not because I can't go past it. Check, nope, it's not the last word. Scroll right. Using the end key can get the same effect. When I'm in this spot and hit arrow right, the cursor drops down to the next line rather than moving right. Something definitely funny here.</li>[/list]
Bug report - Major hall of mirrors
Still checking out the end of line/cursor problem, I used the scroll bar to move left and right. The lines of text disappeared, then reappeared. The mouse was too quick for me to see what was happening. So, I used the arrow buttons (on the scroll bar, not the key board). LO! There's a second bunch of text further to the right of the first bunch of exactly the same text at the left.
Kudos.
NUM and CAP indicators in the status bar.
edit. put it all in one post
[This message has been edited by Phineus (edited 18-08-2001).]
another feature i liked was the ability to view and edit more than one document at a time...
