Distribution Date: 12.05.2016 (dd.mm.yyyy)



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FAIR WARNING

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THINGS WILL GET CRASHY FAST IF ANY .ttf FILES ARE MISSING.

THIS EFFECT WILL ALSO OCCUR IF YOU LAUNCH FROM A DIRECTORY

THAT DOESN'T CONTAIN THE .ttf FILES. (This problem will be

fixed eventually).



This build is extremely "janky" for lack of a better term. From what limitted testing

I have been able to do I think it should run on a Windows 7 machine. It has not been

launched at all on any other version of Windows. I have done what I can to get rid of

the bugs and crashes that would make it unusable, but there are certainly more in there

if you start digging and pressing hard enough.



**Please USE SOURCE CONTROL WITH 4CODER for now**



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INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE

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****Changes in 4.0.3****

4coder now uses 0% CPU when you are not using it.



There is a scrollbar on files now.  (It is not the nicest scrollbar to use in the world,

but the real purpose it serves is to indicate where in a file you are.  I imagine most

scrolling will still happen with the wheel or cursor navigation.)



File lists are now arrow navigatable and scrollable... these two systems do no work

together very well yet.



Color adjusting is possible again, but the UI is heavily downgraded from the fancieness

of the old system.



While editing:

alt + Z: execute command line with the same output buffer and same command

   as in the previous use of "alt + z".



****Changes in 4.0.2****

The previous file limit of 128 has been raised to something over 8 million.



A *messages* buffer is now opened on launch to provide some information about

 new features and messages will be posted there to report events sometimes.



subst and link directories no longer confuse the system, it treats them as one file.



on the command line: -f <N> sets the font size, the default is 16



ctrl + e: centers the view on the cursor



****Changes in 4.0.0****

alt + x: changed to arbitrary command (NOW WORKS ANYWHERE!)

Opens a command prompt from which you can execute:

   "open menu" to open the menu (old behavior of alt+x)

   "open all code" loads all cpp and h files in current directory

   "close all code" closes all cpp and h files currently open

   "open in quotes" opens the file who's name under the cursor is surrounded by quotes

   "dos lines" dosify the file end of iles

   "nix lines" nixify the file end of iles



alt + z: execute arbitrary command-line command

Specify an output buffer and a command to execute

and the results will be dropped into the specified buffer.



****Command line options****

4ed [<files-to-open>] [options]



-d/-D <filename> -- use a dll other than 4coder_custom.dll for your customizations

 -d -- if the file isn't found look for 4coder_custom.dll

 -D -- only look for the specified



-i <line-number> -- line number to jump to in first file to open specified on command line



-w <w, h> -- width and height of the 4coder window

-p <x, y> -- position of the 4coder window



-W -- open in full screen, overrides -w and -p, although the size will still be the default size of the window



-T -- invoke special tool isntead of launching 4coder normally

   -T version : prints the 4coder version string



****Old Information****

Basic Navigation:

mouse click - move cursor

arrows - move cursor

home & end - move cursor to beginning/end of line

page up & page down - page up & page down respectively

control + left/right - move cursor left/right to first whitespace

control + up/down - move cursor up or down to first blank line



Fancy Navigation:

control + f : begin find mode, uses interaction bar

control + r : begin reverse-find mode, uses interaction bar



While in find mode or reverse-find mode, pressing enter ends the mode

leaving the cursor wherever the find highlighter is, and pressing escape

ends the mode leaving the cursor wherever it was before the find mode began.



control + g - goto line number

control + m - swap cursor and mark



Basic Editing:

characters keys, delete, and backspace

control + c : copy between cursor and mark

control + x : cut between cursor and mark

control + v : paste at cursor

control + V : use after normal paste to cycle through older copied text

control + d : delete between cursor and mark

control + SPACE : set mark to cursor



Undo and History:

control + z : undo

control + y : redo

control + Z: undo / history timelines

control + h: history back step

control + H: history forward step

alt + left: increase rewind speed (through undo)

alt + right: increase fastforward speed (through redo)

alt + down: stop redining / fastforwarding



Fancy Editing:

control + u : to uppercase between cursor and mark

control + j : to lowercase between cursor and mark

control + q: query replace

control + a: replace in range

control + =: write increment

control + -: decrement increment

control + [: write {} pair with cursor in line between

control + {: as <control + [> with a semicolon after "}"

control + }: as <control + [> with a "break;" after "}"

control + 9: wrap the range specified by mark and cursor in parens

control + i: wrap the range specified by mark and cursor in #if 0 #endif



Whitespace Boringness:

Typing characters: },],),; and inserting newlines cause the line to autotab

TAB: word complete

control + TAB : auto indent lines between cursor and mark

shift + TAB: auto indent cursor line

control + 1 : set the file to dos mode for writing to disk

control + ! : set the flie to nix mode for writing to disk



Viewing Options:

alt + c - open theme selection UI

control + p : vertically split the current panel (max 16)

control + '-' : horizontally split the current panel (max 16)

control + P : close the currently selected panel

control + , : switch to another panel

control + l : toggle line wrapping

control + L : toggle end of line mode

	mode 1: treat all \r\n and all \n as newline, show \r when not followed by \n

	mode 2: treat all \r and \n as newline

	mode 3: treat all \n as newline, show all \r

control + ? : toggle highlight whitespace mode



Tools:

alt + m : search in the current hot directory and up through all parent

    > directories for a build.bat, and execute that bat if it discovered, sending

    > output to the buffer *compilation*



File Managing:

control + n : create a new file, begins interactive input mode

control + o : open file, begins interactive input mode

control + O : reopen the current file

	(discarding any differences the live version has from the file system's version)

control + s : save

control + w : save as, begins interative input mode

control + i : switch active file in this panel, begins interactive input mode

control + k : kill (close) a file, begins interactive input mode

control + K : kill (close) the file being viewed in the currently active panel



While in interactive input mode, pressing enter confirms the input for the command, and

pressing escape (once) will end the input mode and abort the command.  If the file does

not exist either the nearest match will be opened, or no file will be opened if none is

considered a match.  Use backspace to go back through directories.



Menu UI

Keyboard options:

    > left control + left alt act as AltGr



Theme selection UI

esc - close UI view return to major view if one was open previously



Themes are saved in p4c files, I encourage either of the following pronciations:

"pack"

"pee-fork"