Eddie, programmers editor for BeOS

version 1.3 for BeOS R4 x86 and PPC

Preview documentation

Eddie © 1997-1999 Pavel Císler
Inspired by MPW, the best development environment on the Mac
Text engine based on Styled Text Engine by Hiroshi Lockheimer.

Send suggestions/feedback/bug reports to pavel@be.com.
Current version of Eddie is free. However if you use Eddie, you are morally obliged to send me email describing your experience, complaining about annoyances, suggesting features, reporting bugs, etc.

Note that this documentation is unfinished and you are presented with a preview version.

Before using Eddie, make sure you read and understand the legal disclaimers at the end of this document.

See the enclosed ReleaseNotes for a list of the most recent features/fixes in chronological order.

Plugin API enabling plugin development is provided in a separate package, Eddie Plugin Developer Kit available at ftp://ftp.be.com/pub/contrib/editors/EddiePluginDeveloperKit1.1.zip. (The PluginDeveloperKit will be released very shortly after this version of Eddie, hopefully by the time you are reading this, it is already available).

Contents

  • Overview
  • Editing
  • Cursor navigation
  • Clipboard
  • Mouse clicking
  • Deleting
  • Balancing
  • Balance
  • Mouse balancing
  • Kiss matching
  • Ifdef balancing
  • Swapping
  • Drag&Drop
  • Other shortcuts
  • Using documents
  • Navigating
  • Searching
  • QuickFind
  • Splitting panes
  • Status bar
  • Go to line
  • Document Info
  • Execute command dialog
  • Misc window commands
  • SaveAll
  • CloseAll
  • Worksheet
  • Shell mode
  • Shell commands
  • File
  • Line
  • Windows
  • SetKey
  • Primitives
  • Shell profile
  • Shell tips
  • Worksheet
  • Worksets
  • UserStartup
  • Application settings
  • Plugins
  • Syntax coloring
  • Function popup
  • Magic prototyper
  • Ifdef balancer
  • Commenter
  • tellEddie tool
  • Legal suff, disclaimers:

    This version of Eddie is shareware. You may use it, copy it and redistribute it freely. It most certainly contains bugs, some of the features are not fully functional. Use at your own risk, you have been warned.

    PAVEL CISLER PROVIDES THIS SOFTWARE "AS IS", WITH NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

    IN NO EVENT IS PAVEL CISLER LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT DAMAGES OR OTHER RELIEF ARISING OUT OF YOUR USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM INCLUDING, BY WAY OF ILLUSTRATION AND NOT LIMITATION, LOST PROFITS, LOST BUSINESS OR LOST OPPORTUNITY, OR ANY SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF SUCH USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM, EVEN IF PAVEL CISLER HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY CLAIM BY ANY OTHER PART.

    Be Incorporated is no way responsible for Eddie, Eddie is not a product of Be Incorporated.