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Functionality of the editor

In following enumeration the pictures of the buttons from the toolbars are always represented, which release the function:

File-Actions
Button	Short-Description	Description
	Close
	New	one provides a new file over this Button, the suffix can be indicated immediately. Thus e.g. syntax highlighting of the new file is immediately possible
	Open	Multiple file selection possible (simply several files in the FileChooser can be marked) /
	Open (selected text)	opens the file/URL whose path is selected in the text
	Save
	Save As

- with safety inquiries for the current document
- comfortable selection of files with filter
- several files at the same time loadable and/or representably (in different tabs)
- is syntax highlighting to the type of file applicably becomes this syntax highlighted automatically.

Support for different operating-systems
Button	Short-Description	Description
	DOS	DOS files have as line interlacing a CR (0d) followed from a LF (0a)
	Unix	Unix files have as line interlacing only a LF (0a)
	Binary	the binary file mode does not differ momentarily from the Unix mode. This is adjusted only if a binary file (e.g. a JPG picture) is loaded, which makes little sense in the momentary version of PIEdit.

- Can be changed here by clicking between the different file types. => change of the type of file possible, by load, changing, and following saveing.
- when loading files the correct type is recognized automatically

ZipIdeaMode (Zip + Ciphering)
Button	Short-Description	Description
	ZipIdeaMode on	causes while storage that the file is coded compressed (zipped) and by means of IDEA algorithm enciphered / the password is required when turning the mode on
	ZipIdeaMode off

- one can reach a change of the password by disabling and enabling the mode.

TwinMode
Button	Short-Description	Description
	Twin mode on
	Twin mode off

- double storage of a file, i.e. text and rtf storage at the same time
- this mode makes it possible to use in pure text files styles, without these are lost when closing the file. This is being reached by also producing a rtf file parallel to the text file. On later this is recognized automatically, and one has the style information again.
- ideal when programming, since styles can be used, in order to emphasize determined code lines

Diverse
Button	Short-Description	Description
	Print	with Windows: Use Java from the version 1.4.0, in order to receive a good printing quality, since starting from this version the text is printed also as text, and not as picture (which entailed a miserable quality). specification: see below
	File information	information about type of file, length, etc.
	Line Wrap on	text is wrapped at the line end in the representation
	Line Wrap off	text not wrapped => scrollbar for the longer lines
	Representation of the current file in HEX code	the actual loaded file represented in HEX code as new tab / this generated file to change or store makes momentarily little sense, since it is represented as it is stored.
	Executing programs	i.e. arbitrary programs can be executed / meaningful application purpose: Compiler calls or to start compiled program / specification: see Functionality of the Exe-button

Undo/Redo
Button	Short-Description	Description
	Undo	retrogressive make for the last change
	Redo	repeating the last change

- limits > momentarily to max. 100 steps

Clipboard
Button	Short-Description	Description
	Cut	Cutting
	Copy	Copying
	Paste	Inserting
	Open	opens the file/url whose path is in the clipboard

- use of the system clip board => program-spreading

Search
Button	Short-Description	Description
	Search backward
	Set search text	set search text (from up-to-date selected text
	Search forward
	Searches in files	see section Search in files

- one uses clip board "searching and replacing" is possible, by setting the search text with the appropriate Button, and copying the replacement in the clip board. Now one can accomplish replacements with forward searches and inserting (paste) successively
- one wants to look for a concrete straight not visible text, to produce simply by the new button a new tab, enter there the search text, mark, then by means of the set button set this, change into corresponding file (tab), and search back or forward for there.

Syntax-Highlighting + Styled-Programming
Button	Short-Description	Description
	SH all	syntax highlights the entire document again
	SH load	loads the syntax highlight files in the directory "highlight/"
	SP -> SH	converting a "Styled Programming" - section into a "Syntax Highlighting" - section

Extras
Button	Short-Description	Description
	Load Expand	Loads the expansion tables in the directory "expand/" newly
	Insert picture	Insert picture by file-selection-window
	ImgTexts -> Pictures	Represent img texts as pictures
	Pictures -> ImgTexts	Represent pictures as img texts

Font
Button	Short-Description	Description
SansSerif	Apply Font	Apply Font to current selected text or to the whole current line, if nothing selected.
Monospaced
Serif

- these character fonts are available on all platforms (DOS, Unix, etc.).

Font-Size
Button	Short-Description	Description
8	Apply font-size	Apply font-size to current selected text or to the whole current line, if nothing selected. This will possibly extend in later versions of PIEdit
9
..
48

Color
Button	Short-Description	Description
	Apply color	Apply color to current selected text or to the whole current line, if nothing selected. Can be configured (see Configure color-buttons)

..

Style
Button	Short-Description	Description
	italic	Apply style to current selected text or to the whole current line, if nothing selected.
	bold
	underlined

Supported file formats (and/or filters):
- rtf: Storing in the rtf format possible, therefore directly with Microsoft Office Word readably.
- TXT: Storing without style information (pure ASCII text), thus textual formats, like e.g. HTML, Java source code, C++ source code, INI files, etc.
- twin mode files: So-called twin files, thus files are doubly stored. (see above with TwinMode on and/or switching off)

Adjustable toolbars:
- Possibility to separate the 3 toolbars completely from the editor window or to place these at the left or right edge perpendicularly.

Umlaut input via: "_ue_", "_Ue_", etc., and "ss" over" _ss_ "
- one enters these text strings, these text strings are automatically replaced by the appropriate umlaut
- umlaut input also with american keyboards simply possible

Announcement of the current cursor position
- line
- column
- line-length
- total number of lines
- offset-position

Announcement of the complete file path within the lower range with time of the last file action
Not stored files marked by ! (Exclamation marks) at the end of the file name
Write-protected files marked by [wp] at the end of the file name
Because developed in Java, PIEdit on each platform applicable, thus on Linux, Unix, Windows, etc.

JSWins (JavaScript-Desktop-System)