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- The flexible configuration lets you tailor any VEDIT Family editor to the
- particulars of your computer and "customize" it to your applications, personal
- preferences and keyboard layout.
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- The VEDIT editors have two levels of configuration. Most configuration
- changes can be made inside the editor and can be made permanent by saving them
- directly into the "VEDIT.EXE" file.
-
- Less common configuration changes, such as selecting hardware compatibility,
- are made with the configuration program VPCONFIG.
-
- The {CONFIG} sub-menu lets you change the Tab positions, "Word Processing",
- "Programming", "File Handling", "Emulation" and "Misc" options. You can also
- change the "Printing" and "Searching" options. The {CONFIG, Save into VEDIT}
- function saves the current configuration settings and, optionally, any new
- keystroke macros into the "VEDIT.EXE" file. Unlike other editors, VEDIT does
- NOT use separate configuration files which slow down invocation.
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- For example, you could select to have tab positions set to 10, 25 and 30,
- the "right margin" set to column 65 and "justification" enabled. You can even
- select the character to be displayed at the end of lines (where the <CR><LF>
- is) and the "fill character" used to display Tab characters. You can select
- the cursor type and cursor blink rate or a non-blinking cursor.
-
- VEDIT can be configured to a wide variety of hardware. Screen sizes up to 100
- lines and 250 columns are supported. The colors (attributes) for the status
- line, menus, window borders and text can be selected.
-
- An important feature is the ability to completely determine your own keyboard
- layout - what control or function key you will press to perform each edit
- function. This demo asks you to press, for example, "<CTRL-F>" to format a
- paragraph. However, you can assign the [FORMAT PARAGRAPH] function to any
- key. You can even assign it to two different keys. The same holds for all of
- the edit functions.
-
- You can start with a keyboard layout we supply, such as the "default",
- WordStar (tm) or Word Perfect (tm) layouts, perhaps modifying them a little.
- Or you can create your own keyboard layout, perhaps using one you are already
- familiar with from another editing/word processing program.
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- At any time you can add new keystroke macros. You can enter them directly
- using a special window or have VEDIT record your keystrokes while you edit.
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- VEDIT PLUS's powerful macro language lets you create your own editing
- functions and assign them to a key using keystroke macros. A library of
- keystroke macros is supplied which includes "duplicate line", "open line",
- "transpose letters", "word count" and many others.
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- All configuration parameters, including new keystroke macros, can also be
- transferred from one release of the editor to another.
-