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- Five ready to use programs or "macros" are supplied with VEDIT and VEDIT PLUS.
- These macros can be set up to automatically execute when the editor is
- invoked. This allows someone without any knowledge of VEDIT to use these or
- custom macros.
-
- * Integrated Compiler Support. This menu driven macro runs popular compilers
- assemblers, linkers, debuggers and Make programs from within VEDIT. See
- the "List Main Features" topic for more information.
-
- * WILDFILE macro. This very useful macro lets you perform a search, search
- and replace, or run another macro on an entire group of files. The group
- of files may be specified using the wildcards "?" and "*". (WILDFILE
- performs a superset of the UNIX "grep" command.)
-
- * File comparison macro. Displays the differences between two files on the
- screen and lets you merge/edit them in any way desired. After displaying
- a difference the macro can re-align the files and then continue looking
- for further differences. For example, after finding where revisions were
- made, you can copy blocks of text from one file to the other.
-
- * Mailing list sort macro. Sorts a typical list of mailing addresses into
- alphabetical order.
-
- * Print formatting macro. This extends VEDIT and VEDIT PLUS's printing
- capabilities by printing files with a header and page number on each page.
- Containing only a dozen commands, it also serves as a simple example of a
- useful macro. It can be readily extended for fancier print formatting.
-
- VEDIT and VEDIT PLUS come with two libraries of additional macros. The
- "Command Macros" can be loaded from disk and executed at any time. The
- "Keystroke Macros" can be built into the editor and assigned to a "hot key".
- These libraries are constantly being expanded.
-
- * Command Macro library. Includes box drawing, splitting/merging very
- large files, converting tabs to spaces and editing keystroke macros.
-
- * Keystroke Macro library. Includes selecting window color from a color
- chart, duplicating characters and lines, moving the cursor by sentence,
- listing lines containing a text string, transposing characters, counting
- words and much more.
-
- * Mail Merge. You can create, update and maintain files of mailing
- addresses. The mailing addresses can then be merged into a form letter
- and printed one after another. The form letter may be created with VEDIT
- alone, or with V-PRINT. Available as an option for $20.
-
- * 8080/Z80 to 8086 Translator. Translates 8080 or Z80 (Intel mnemonics)
- assembly language source code into 8086 assembly language. Can be used as
- is or as a model for other assembly language translators. Available as an
- option for $50.
-
- The macros are ready for immediate use and are self prompting. Anyone can
- use them without knowing much else about VEDIT. Since they are supplied in
- "Source Code", they also serve as elaborate examples of VEDIT PLUS macro
- programming. And you can modify them to suit your personal needs.
-