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| Kephra Version 0.5 |
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1. Preliminary notes
2. News summary
2. News in detail
4. Known bugs and issues
5. Hints
6. Plans
1. Preliminary note
- Welcome to Kephra. This text editor is made to fullfill your individual wishes.
If you have any comments, suggestions ans thanks, please use the links to our
website in the help menu. There you find also a longer welcome text.
- This is a so called stable version for the daily use. It contains only well
tested features and bugs will be fixed as soon as possible with the next patch
level, which will add no new features. If you like to help us and/or use
always the freshest features, please consider to use test versions, which have
a three digit version number. Four digits mark developer versions, in case you
really believe in: "no risk no fun".
2. News summary
* read and write Unicode files
* code folding
* new mouse click combos
+ moveable tabs
+ marker
+ 8 new tools
+ 3 new main window modes
+ definable status bar
+ links to help web pages
* installation over CPAN for Linux, Win und Mac
+ ... and lots more
3. News in detail
- Unicode
+ UTF-8 files will be recognized when opening and also saved as such.
+ The fourth pane of the statusbar shows if current coding is utf or ascii.
+ Coding of empty files can be changed with the Document > Encoding menu,
it may (yet) not work otherwise.
- New Mouse Controls
Following settings can all be changed or made disable at once.
+ Left click on the selection does copy it.
+ Middle click inserts selection.
+ Middle click on the selection searches for next instance of that string.
+ In any other case Middle click moves cursor to the position of last edit.
+ Middle click while holding left pastes from clipboard.
+ Right click while holding left does cut and selection to clipboard.
- Code Folding
+ Between the line numbers and the text area a new margin appeared, that
marks with symbols the beginnings of all code chunks that can be folded.
+ Left click or <Ctrl>+<+> folds or defolds (toggles) the current node.
+ Middle click or <Ctrl>+<Shift>+<+> toggles current node with all children.
+ Right click or <Alt>+<+> toggles all nodes of that level. All nodes without
parent are on level one, its direct children are level two and so forth.
+ Right click while holding left or <Alt>+<Shift>+<+> toggles all nodes.
+ A document, reopened from file history has the folding state as when closed.
- Marker
Green arrows on the left of the line numbers mark important text spots.
+ They can be toggled with a left click on marker margin or <Ctrl>+<F2>.
+ <F2> or <Shift>+<F2> navigate forth and back between marker of a doc.
+ When adding <Alt>+, Marker in all Docs can be navigated.
+ Same you achieve with the green arrows at the search bar.
+ A submenu with all marker functions is inside the search menu.
+ Also bookmarks can now be toggled with a middle click on the marker margin.
- Richer Interface
+ The main window has 3 new modes, all closed by the <Esc> key.
+ <F11> - fullscreen, win consumes the whole screen and has no more border.
+ <Shift>+<F11> - Max Editpanel, all app bars are toggled.
+ <Alt>+<F11> - toggles transparency of the main win.
+ <Ctrl>+<F11> - no other win can stay on top of Kephra.
+ Tabbar (<Ctrl>+<Alt>+<T>) and menu bar (<Ctrl>+<Alt>+<M>) can be toggled.
+ Tabs in Tabbar are now also movable with mouse.
+ The rightmost symbol of the tabbar opens a menu to select the current doc.
+ In the left margin can now be opened a new context menu.
+ The status bar can now be defined by a YAML file as other toolbars too.
Open that file with the menu item Config > User Interface > Toolbar.
+ Is a opened file deleted elsewhere, a new dialog tells you that and offers
several options to deal with that.
+ Several icons are redesigned by Jens Neuwerk.
- More Tools
+ <Shift>+<F4> copies selection into the notepad.
+ A new dialog displays selected color values and writes the selected color
in HTML hex format into the document.
+ Content of @INC and %ENV can be written into output panel.
+ Output panel can show selection, converted into decimal or hexadecimal numbers.
+ Is caret inside a quoted string, copy that with <Alt>+<Shift>+<C>.
+ <Ctrl>+<Shift>+<V> inserts the Perl varibale last used in this block.
+ inserting current time and date
+ NonASCII character can be converted to HTML-Entities and back.
- More Help
+ All documentation is updated or rewritten.
+ A new item in the help menu opens the online documentation in the browser.
+ The next item opens a help forum for Perl programmer.
+ And next 2 items open our online ticket system to report wishes or errors.
- Installation jetzt auch über CPAN-Shell für Linux, Win und Mac
4. Known bugs and issues
Please don't try to change file encoding of nonemty files.
5. Hints
+ Read the "Advanced - Tour" in the "Help" menu. Many of these useful
functions can be overseen very easily.
+ Look into the Module Kephra::Config::Default::GlobalSettings, a commented
version of the main configs.
6. Plans for next releases
+ Plugin API
+ tree extention for text snipptets and self defined tools
+ commandline extention for vi like usage
+ config dialog