PPL

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*Text Editor DEd
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* What was this program intended for?
If you have a magic touch and advanced karma including IQ >= 100 - this program will help you to edit text files.
If not, this program may damage your smartphone and all service-centers will count you out, so think twice BEFORE installation!

* Top panel.
This panel was abolished since 0.14 because of being a great break. Now a tiny menu is available. Call it by [g9] hotkey or from main menu.

* Using hotkeys
Hotkeys are noted in main menu and start with letter g (means Green button [Dial, Call, etc.])
DEd provides innovation approach to a problem of using hotkeys with one hand for the easiest getting power of your smartphone and DEd's functionality.
The way it is meant to be used:
- press and release Green button
- than you have one second to press the number-key, mentioned after letter g

Let's try make a call to search function. This function is labeled with "g7" in main menu. Press Green button, release it and press "7" quickly. That's all!

Don't think this way hotkeys are something new? Try to use "Selection" in main menu (or [g5]).
By pressing first time [g5] you make the program remember the start selection position. Then use arrows on your joystick. And press [g5] when neccessary again. The text selection will be done by one hand only!

* Bookmarks
DEd remembers up to 128 bookmarks in each edited file. If you choose "Save position" in settings, bookmarks will be saved while closing file and restored while opening it again.

Starting with DEd 0.51 it supports PPL format (well-known format for bookreaders)
What does it mean?
-  The first line must contain only PPL (it's a PPL signature)
-  Each line with leading asterisk * is automatically added to bookmarks
The PPL-specification requires trailing <*>, but DEd ignores it.
Try PPL format right now by pressing [g3]!

* Settings
- Remember last file. Last opened file will be open at startup
- Save cursor position. Makes DEd remember cursor position while closing file. In addition all bookmarks are saved.
- Show non-printable characters. Line feeds, spaces and tabs are marked with special characters and are shown on the screen.
- Turn off word wrap. No comments.
- Disable multitask. Turns off multitasking. The only meaning is to see an icon in taskswitcher. What for? =)
- Default encoding. DEd automatically recognizes file with signatures. If there is no signature in a file - this encoding is used while opening file.
- Default folder. File dialogs start up with this folder. This folder is also a default place for saving files (when you don't determine full path and printed only file name in "Save as" dialog)
- Joystick center, Right soft. Choose your destiny here. Oops. I mean, choose an appropriate action for theese buttons
- Default extension. This extension is used if no extension was defined in "Save as" dialog. You may leave it empty.

* Multidocument interface (MDI)
Each time program starts a new separated process is launched. Switching between them is available by helding Menu key or by process managers (Best Taskmen, Handy Taskman, etc...) Handy taskman seems to be a little buggy (it doesn't see DEd processes) ;) and Best Taskman seems not to be the best one - it shows names with ??????? so report this stuff to their developers. Standard switcher works fine, but shows puzzle icons. So you may disable multitasking if you want.

If several DEd windows launched, a new menu item "Windows [g*]" appears. It does something with DEd windows, sure.

* Search and replace
Search starts down from cursor and case-insensitive by default. Entered search strings are saved to SearchHistory.cfg and ReplaceHistory.cfg. You may edit theese files in DEd directly. For example, you may add your often-used templates. Max size is limited by 64 elements.

* Copy/Paste.
Use g+LeftSoft and g+RightSoft for copy-pasting =). If nothing is selected at the moment - current TEXT line will be copied (don't mix up with screen line).

* For those who have read this doc, several bonuses are granted =).
	GREEN-GREEN - open file with predefined encoding
	GREEN-4		- full-hardcore-screen mode!
   LeftSoft-#	- just another easter egg

There are some other useful and not features, hidden inside of hundreads of code lines... =)

* Global Strategy (author's plans)
Handango.com is a nice idea, two versions (freeware without some useful features and shareware) but most probably there will be only one fully functional free version.

The things may be some time later:
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- Text templates

The things may never be later:
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- Sintax highlightning. Smartphone is too weak and we don't need fake.
- quick view, pdf-reader, doc-writer... Text is the power
- Scrollbar. 

With best regards,
Juriy Bakunin aka JBAK and english translator Atrant SG
<bakunin@bk.ru>