Short:        FTN message editor
Author:       port by Ervras
Uploader:     ervras aim com
Type:         comm/fido
Version:      0.5.7
Replaces:     comm/fido/crashedit_aos.lha
Requires:     AmiSSL util/libs/AmiSSL-v5-OS3
Architecture: m68k-amigaos > 3.1
Distribution: Aminet

CrashEdit is a complete FTN (FidoNet) message reader and editor with
charset conversion support. Features include:

- Read/write echomail and netmail messages
- Supports JAM and MSG/FTS1/OPUS/SDM message bases
- UTF-8 internal processing with charset conversion
- Multiple charset support (CP437, CP850, CP865, CP866, LATIN-1, LATIN-2, CP1252, UTF-8)
- ANSI color display with toggle
- Full-featured editor with undo/redo, clipboard
- Mouse support (click, drag, double/triple click, wheel)
- Auto-wrap and hard-wrap text modes
- Search and replace in messages
- File attachments (netmail)
- File Request (FREQ) support
- Carbon Copy (CC) to multiple recipients
- Message search (headers and body)
- Area management and catch-up
- Full-screen configuration editor
- Kludge editing (^A MSGID, REPLY, etc.)
- Add nodelist to netmail
- Unicode glyph picker
- Spell checker, hyphenation and thesaurus (optional native implementations)
- Translator panel (online backends + offline StarDict-compatible dictionaries)
- TTF rendering with FreeType and full Unicode support
- Configurable via config file (crashedit.conf)

Update with UTF-8 support, TTF FreeType, libpng and zlib (static builds supported)
Bugs related to undo and redo, and the new TTF wrapper, have been fixed

* Added glyph picker and optimizations and fix a bug with shadow buffer and run-length
* Added small caching system for use with multiple fonts simultaneously
* Several errors related to the undo function have been corrected
* Added native spell checker, hyphenation, thesaurus and translator panel
* Added mouse support and improved editor display options
* Added support for JAM and MSG/FTS1/OPUS/SDM message bases

*Requires AmiSSL only when using the online translator with HTTPS

Dictionaries tested with the native spell checker include es_ES and en_US/
en_GB from the LibreOffice Dictionaries Collection. Place the .aff and .dic
files in the configured dictionary path.

Hyphenation tested with hyph_es and hyph_en_US files from the LibreOffice
Dictionaries Collection (hyph_*.dic format). Place them in the configured
hyphenation dictionary path.

Thesaurus tested with th_es_ES and th_en_US files from the LibreOffice
Dictionaries Collection (th_*.idx/.dat format). Place them in the configured
thesaurus dictionary path.

StarDict-compatible offline dictionaries can be obtained from:
https://stardict.uber.space/ (mirror), http://download.huzheng.org/ or
https://freedict.org/downloads/. Place the .ifo, .idx and .dict files in the
configured dictionary path

Other sources:
wooorm/dictionaries on GitHub and the TinyMCE hunspell dictionary packages.

Source code:
https://github.com/skbn/crashmail/tree/main/crashedit