# Eddie, programmers editor for B eOS

## version 1.5 for BeOS R4 x86 and PPC or later

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Eddie © 1997-2000 Pavel Císler
Inspired by MPW, the best development environment on the Mac
Text engine based on Styled Text Engine by Hiroshi Lockheimer. FTP Open based on Nettle by Howard Berkey. Java syntax coloring by Kenny Carruthers.

Send suggestions/feedback/bug reports to pavel@el34.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.

Latest versions of Eddie are available from www.el34.com.

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

This documentation is under construction, portions are still missing, some parts may refer to features in 1.4 version of Eddie that have since been improved/reworked.

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

### 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
- Searching multiple files
- QuickFind
- Splitting panes
- Status bar
- Go to line
- Document Info
- Execute command dialog
- Misc window commands
- Worksheet
- Shell mode
- Shell commands
- File
- Line
- Windows
- SetKey
- Primitives
- Shell profile
- Shell tips
- Worksheet tips
- Worksets
- Generating makefiles
- UserStartup
- Application settings
- Plugins
- Syntax coloring
- Function popup
- Magic prototyper
- Ifdef balancer
- Commenter
- tellEddie tool

  ### Legal stuff, 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.