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- DOS-EDIT Charles Petzold
- Command PC Magazine, Vol 5, No 3
- Copyright 1986 Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
- ______________________________________________________
-
- Purpose: Permits moving to, editing, and reentering
- on-screen DOS commands without retyping.
-
- Format: DOS-EDIT (loads memory-resident program)
- then
- <Up Arrow> (enables DOS-Edit keys)
- <Left Arrow> (cursor left)
- <Right Arrow> (cursor right)
- <Up Arrow> (cursor up)
- <Down Arrow> (cursor down)
- <Backspace> (destructive backspace)
- <Ins> (insert/overwrite toggle)
- <Del> (delete character)
- <PgDn> (delete to end of line)
- <PgUp> (cursor to column 1)
- <Home> (cursor to initial column #)
- <Esc> (exit edit mode, no changes)
- <End> (transfer text line right of
- cursor to end of original line)
- <Enter> (like <End>, plus execute command)
-
- Remarks: When loaded, normally through your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file, an initial Up Arrow
- keypress activates the DOS-EDIT mode.
- (Thereafter, the Up Arrow functions as a
- normal cursor arrow key.) If you move the
- cursor down to the original line, you will
- leave the DOS-EDIT mode (e.g., the Left Arrow
- key will once again delete characters).
-
- Example: A typical use of DOS-EDIT is to correct a
- long command line in which you made a typing
- error. Simply move the cursor up to the mis-
- typed line, correct the mistake (using the
- appropriate keys listed under FORMAT), press
- Home (to position the cursor to pick up the
- whole of the line), then Enter.
-
- A less obvious example occurs if you have
- just done a DIR listing and want to run a
- program. Move the cursor up and just to the
- right of the program name. Press PgDn to
- delete the extension and the rest of the
- line, PgUp to position the cursor to pick up
- the whole command name, then Enter.
-
- Note:
-
- 1. DOS-EDIT is a memory-resident program,
- and so may cause conflicts with some
- other memory-resident software programs.
- Such problems can frequently be solved
- by changing the order in which the
- several memory-resident programs are
- loaded. DOS-EDIT should be loaded
- before ASSIGN.COM and before SideKick,
- for example.