Edxor question

[ms]

I find Edxor is a fine small executable text editor, and has become my
default text editor.
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EDXOR
Version 1.63 31 KB executable
2003
Dariusz Stanislawek
http://freezip.cjb.net/freeware/
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/edxor.htm
Extensive EDXOR v1.50 manual - use IE to download
EDXOR is a versatile, convenient and optimal Windows text editor and
file processor that far surpasses the capabilities of other Notepad-like
applications. It offers innovative clipboard handling, cryptographic
options and logic text conversions, great for privacy. EDXOR is small,
self-contained, dependency-free and very fast. It provides over 90 menu
items, including many unique functions and options, for diverse
applications.

But, I notice a glitch in plain text files, of course.

In text, the display shows a dark vertical bar instead of a comma in a
sentence, at times in the text. Particularly if a phrase is separated by
commas in a sentence. Most of the time it's fine, just sometimes this
glitch, which I have to edit out, a nuisance.

The same file opened in Editpad shows the commas normally.

There is no author contact on the web site or in the help file.

Anyone else see this, or using it and does not see it? If there's a
setting to suppress this, I don't see it.

Mike Sa

 

[me is MUD]

There is no author contact on the web site or in the help file.

Try this email, and put EdXor for the subject line.
(e-mail address removed)

I hope that helps.

me is MUD

 

[ZONED]

There is no author contact on the web site or in the help file.

Try this email, and put EdXor for the subject line.
(e-mail address removed)

I hope that helps.

ZONED

 

[ms]

Try this email, and put EdXor for the subject line.
(e-mail address removed)

I hope that helps.

ZONED

Thanks, but it bounced.

Mike Sa

 

[omega]

I find Edxor is a fine small executable text editor, and has become my
default text editor. [...]

But, I notice a glitch in plain text files, of course.

In text, the display shows a dark vertical bar instead of a comma in a
sentence, at times in the text. Particularly if a phrase is separated by
commas in a sentence. Most of the time it's fine, just sometimes this
glitch, which I have to edit out, a nuisance.

The same file opened in Editpad shows the commas normally.

Mike, this could be only a far shot, but here is my question for you. What
font are you using for display in Edxor? And, try a different font, and see
what happens.

 

[ZONED]

Thanks, but it bounced.

OK, did some research, and this appears to be his latest email address that
he has released.
(e-mail address removed)

ZONED

 

[ms]

I find Edxor is a fine small executable text editor, and has become my
default text editor. [...]

But, I notice a glitch in plain text files, of course.

In text, the display shows a dark vertical bar instead of a comma in a
sentence, at times in the text. Particularly if a phrase is separated by
commas in a sentence. Most of the time it's fine, just sometimes this
glitch, which I have to edit out, a nuisance.

The same file opened in Editpad shows the commas normally.

Mike, this could be only a far shot, but here is my question for you. What
font are you using for display in Edxor? And, try a different font, and see
what happens.

Thanks, Karen, the default font was ok, but now when I look to change
the font, don't see a setting. Options, there is Font 1 and Font 2, but
changing makes no change in the document font.

Mike Sa

 

[omega]

Mike, when you say sometimes, would you happen to mean that it depends on
which document? Since then I think we'd be dealing with how high up in
charset (subject ansi et al). My default notepad, Win32pad, it gives me
little black rectangles for chars that Editpad has no problem displaying.

 

[jason]

Mike, when you say sometimes, would you happen to mean that it depends
on which document? Since then I think we'd be dealing with how high up
in charset (subject ansi et al). My default notepad, Win32pad, it
gives me little black rectangles for chars that Editpad has no problem
displaying.

That was my first thought too. That happens in Metapad with emdashes,
ellipses, etc. But Mike is talking about commas??

 

[ms]

That was my first thought too. That happens in Metapad with emdashes,
ellipses, etc. But Mike is talking about commas??

An update, I heard from the author who, by the way, was very helpful.
Quote, as it may help others:

try to install the "edxorfix" and let me know

I installed it in the Edxor folder. Was this the right location?
BTW, previously, I could open RTF files with other editors.

Anyway, no change, the dark vertical bar still appeared instead of a
comma.

press F1, read...
"Hold Ctrl and click Options/Font to select fonts..."

I changed the font size, the comma problem was fixed. The larger font
size was not acceptable, so I changed back.

The problem was still fixed (?). So now Edxor works fine at the desired
font and size (?).

With this solved, Edxor seems to be a keeper.

But I find many programs have some glitch that may/may not recur. I
stopped using Editpad Classic after years with it, when it would open a
file with a blank screen, and not exit. Editpad Pro Lite worked for a
while, then opened 4 files at the same time, with the current file
blank. Yankee Clipper worked for about a year, then started loosing
clips. In retirement, it keeps my mind active.

Mike Sa

 

[ms]

Mike, when you say sometimes, would you happen to mean that it depends on
which document? Since then I think we'd be dealing with how high up in
charset (subject ansi et al). My default notepad, Win32pad, it gives me
little black rectangles for chars that Editpad has no problem displaying.

I meant at times within the same document. It now seems to be fixed, see
my reply to Jason. As I could see a similar issue in the future, what do
you mean by:

I think we'd be dealing with how high up in charset (subject ansi et al). ??

BTW, thanks for the tip in an earlier thread about no-installs, where
you mentioned in W98SE, saving the dll's from the System folder, as
installs could overwrite. I now have 98 MB of dll's in another folder.
I noticed in the past, overwriting of *.ocx files. Would you recommend
also copying them?

Thanks,

Mike Sa

 

[ms]

OK, did some research, and this appears to be his latest email address that
he has released.
(e-mail address removed)

ZONED

Thanks, that address works, see results in this thread.

Mike Sa

 

[omega]

I changed the font size, the comma problem was fixed. The larger font
size was not acceptable, so I changed back.

The problem was still fixed (?). So now Edxor works fine at the desired
font and size (?).

Computers are so illogical!

But I find many programs have some glitch that may/may not recur. [...]
In retirement, it keeps my mind active.

The human mind is problem-oriented. We can attend Zen-hippy seminars
to teach it to change. Or alternatively, we can satisfy the appetite.
Software behavior provides a most generous feast of problems. <g>

 

[omega]

BTW, thanks for the tip in an earlier thread about no-installs, where
you mentioned in W98SE, saving the dll's from the System folder, as
installs could overwrite. I now have 98 MB of dll's in another folder.
I noticed in the past, overwriting of *.ocx files. Would you recommend
also copying them?

Yes, I would. Note also. If you do ever use installers, and ones which try
to sneak personal DLLs & OCXs into your system directory, move* those files
back out of there, and put them in the program's own directory, where they
belong.

For keeping track of the libraries in the system directory, a nice utility
is a directory cataloger type thing, which records version information, and
will compare snapshots. Force of habit, I've been using FileImg (comes with
the w98 reskit). It is not that satisfactory, and I've been collecting
others, but have not yet done a good compare to settle on which of them
are the best. Soon....


.. . .

* Note that by "move," you might sometimes need to do a right-click
"unregister" at the first location, and then a "register" at the new
location. Or better, don't let the installer write anything perm
to your registry in the first place. Programs, about 99% of them,
write what they need to when executed. Some hunt down the DLLs & OCXs
in their directory and register those automatically. If doesn't happen,
then right-click to do the regsrv thing for them.

** (Those who don't have a register/unregister on the explorer context
menu, I can look up the command to put it in there)

 

[omega]

As I could see a similar issue in the future, what do you mean by:

After the first 128 chars, into the ansi set. There are charts and things;
Jason spent a while studying character support (w98) earlier in the year,
so he might be more adept at summarizing. Even though this case of what
you were seeing with Edxor, from what you said, it turned out to involve
something else, the oddity with the handling of the font...

 

[jason]

** (Those who don't have a register/unregister on the explorer context
menu, I can look up the command to put it in there)

I dug up an old post of mine. (Haven't checked the links.)

Context Menu OCX/DLL Register/Unregister

The Context Menu OCX/DLL Register/Unregister is a registration file
which, when merged into your registry by double clicking or installing,
adds 'Register' and 'Unregister' commands to the context menu displayed
when right-clicking a ocx or dll file. This is a timesaver, removing the
need to run regsvr32 from the command line to register controls and
libraries. It is available as a zip and a reg file - the reg file
version will install immediately if you specify 'Open" when downloading.

http://www.saberware.com/downloads.htm
http://www.saberware.com/files/ocxdllreg.zip (1k)


This is the other one:

COM Register Extension 2.1

If you are developing ActiveX components, you truly know that
"REGSVR32.EXE" isn't the most luxurious program available.

Xteq COM Register Extension makes it much more easier:

It's an extension for the Windows Explorer, simply right-click an OCX,
DLL or EXE file and select "Register ..." or "Unregister ..." from the
menu. This will either register or unregister the selected component from
the registry.

Forget REGSVR32.EXE forever!

http://www.xteq.com/products/comr/index.html (17k)

 

[jason]

After the first 128 chars, into the ansi set. There are charts and
things; Jason spent a while studying character support (w98) earlier
in the year, so he might be more adept at summarizing.

Let's just character sets are a major headache. But they often become
an issue when people want to get rid of the "weird" characters in their
documents. Edxor is one of the few utilities that allows you to do this.
Under the Format menu, there's an option called "Wipe non-ASCII".

Here's the description:

"WIPE NON-ASCII" will strip, or remove the decorative ASCII characters
from certain text files in order to make them easier to read. Examples of
ASCII-art are frequently used in the popular *.nfo files included with
zipped file-archives from specialised groups.

 

[omega]

Context Menu OCX/DLL Register/Unregister

The Context Menu OCX/DLL Register/Unregister is a registration file
which, when merged into your registry by double clicking or installing,
adds 'Register' and 'Unregister' commands to the context menu displayed
when right-clicking a ocx or dll file.

[...]

Thanks, Jason. Saved me time. Also those downloads are far more convenient
than the route I might have taken, like posting REGEDIT4 merge stuff.

 

[omega]

Let's just character sets are a major headache.

A few years ago, I set up Cyrillic support for someone's w98 (non-unicode)
system. For the OS, and then got some word processors, and then did Agent.
It was a tedious and miserable affair, all of it. Some computer tasks are
fun. Not that one...

 

[ms]

Let's just character sets are a major headache. But they often become
an issue when people want to get rid of the "weird" characters in their
documents. Edxor is one of the few utilities that allows you to do this.
Under the Format menu, there's an option called "Wipe non-ASCII".

Here's the description:

"WIPE NON-ASCII" will strip, or remove the decorative ASCII characters
from certain text files in order to make them easier to read. Examples of
ASCII-art are frequently used in the popular *.nfo files included with
zipped file-archives from specialised groups.

Thanks, Jason for those links, and thanks to Karen and you for the help.

BTW, IIRC, you like Proximitron. I just looked, and have a big folder
with help files I accumulated on Prox. For other reasons, I finally
decided not to learn Prox, too complex. I rarely see popups as I browse
with Java Script and cookies disabled. And I have several small popup
killers.

Mike Sa