StrongEd Instructions

Reference Section

Choices, Global

Open the Choices dbox by clicking Select on the Iconbar menu.

The box that opens is where the most often used configuration options can be set.

Choices

The choices dbox is in three sections. The left hand section is the menu: It stays present and the blackened pushbutton shows the choices section currently in opertaion, in this case 'Misc'. The choices are divided into

• Respond to
• Edit
• Display
• Block
• BASIC
• Misc
• Windows

The right hand section of the dbox is a tick list of the choices available for the current section and most of the choices are self explanatory.

You can also use Acorn !Help to get a slightly more verbose description of the individual option.

Choices, Mode

The Mode choices dbox is opened by pressing Menu in an . The Mode choice available will naturally be the choice for the mode of the window you chose!

A quicker way to access these dboxes, is to click Select or Adjust on the 'tick' icon on the open StrongEd window's toolbar.

Mode Choices do not all take immediate effect. Many of them are simply default values for text/views created with this mode, and you'll have to create a new text to see the effect of your changes.

These mode choices settings are stored in the !StrED_cfg.Options file, except for so-called application modes (like !News and !HTML) which have their mode choices stored in their own sub directories in !StrED_cfg.

Configuration Directory

Creating new text

Click Select on the iconbar icon, or press , to create a new blank Basemode textfile. it will be named, by default, 'Textfile'.

You can also create a file in any chosen Mode by using the submenu 'Create' from the iconbar menu, or clicking with adjust on the iconbar icon which opens the list of modes curently available.

Mouse control

• To load a load file you can do any of the following:
  • Double Click on a text file or on any other doubleclick files defined in the ModeWhen list.
  • Shift-Double Click on any file.
  • Double Click and hold on any file.
  • Drag any file to the StrongEd iconbar icon.

    Pressing while dragging the file will load the file, even if it is already loaded.

    Pressing while dragging a BASIC file will stop StrongEd stripping off the line numbers.

• To Insert a file into another file which is in memory:
  • Drag the file to a file in a StrongEd window.
  • Drag to insert the pathname of the file.
• Caret Movement and text marking Marking:
  • Click Select to move the caret to the position indicated by the mouse pointer.
  • Double Click Select to mark the word at the mouse pointer.
  • Tripleclick Select to mark the line at the mouse pointer.
  • Selectdrag marks a new block or starts a blocksave.
  • Select starts new block without moving the caret.
  • Adjust to alter a marked block.
  • Adjust drag drags the edge of the currently marked block.
  • Clicking on the ckground of the scroll-bar will scroll one page up/down. Keep Select or Adjust down for autorepeat.
• In a List of Found / List of Texts / Throwback:
  • Select on a line to move the correct view to front
  • Adjust to keep the List on top
• Only Throwback:
  • Shift-Click to delete a line or a section.

Search and replace

List of windows

Undo Buffer

One of the nice features of StrongEd is an 'undo' buffer. Pressing undoes the last key press (or other change). Keep pressing and you work backwards through the changes you have made to the file. It can be quite magical watching StrongEd restore all those cock-ups you just made.