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- The Norton DOS Editor, NDE, is a memory resident program which keeps track
- of your most recent DOS commands, so that you can recall and edit them.
- NDE includes a simple yet powerful command line editor, which makes it
- easy for you to make quick, easy changes to your previous commands. NDE
- uses the same command format as the Norton Editor.
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- NDE was written by Stanley Reifel, author of the Norton Editor. Assembly
- language source code is included with the program. This makes it possible
- for you to study some of Stan's programming techniques, and also to make
- simple and easy changes to the program, if you wish.
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- If you are like most DOS users, the primitive command-line editor
- available under DOS just doesn't help you very much. For example, DOS's
- own command editor only gives you access to the most recently issued
- command, when you may want to re-use a long, complicated command issued
- four commands prior to the current command. It's likely that you really
- would like to have the full editing capabilities of a good visual editor
- (such as the Norton Editor) when modifying a DOS command. NDE solves
- those problems, but doesn't clutter your life with a bunch of other
- "features" that you may not need or want.
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- To recall a previous command, use the cursor up-arrow. NDE keeps a list
- of recently issued commands. You move through this list with the
- cursor-up and cursor-down keys.
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- To install the program, just enter the command NDE; you'll probably want
- to include it as part of your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Once you've activated
- NDE, it keeps a record of your commands, so that you can recall them at a
- touch of the cursor keys.
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- NDE uses about 3,500 bytes of memory; 1,000 bytes are used to hold a copy
- of your commands. (The amount of memory used to record commands is one of
- the things you can easily change in the source code for NDE).
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- NDE -- COMMAND SUMMARY
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- Left arrow -- moves cursor left one column
- Right arrow -- moves cursor right one column
- ^Left arrow -- moves cursor left one word
- ^Right arrow -- moves cursor right one word
- HOME -- moves cursor to the line beginning
- END -- moves cursor to the line end
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- Up arrow -- displays previous command
- F3 -- same as up-arrow
- Down arrow -- displays next command
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- Backspace -- deletes character left of the cursor
- DEL -- deletes character right of the cursor
- ^W -- deletes word left of the cursor
- Alt-W -- deletes word right of the cursor
- ^L -- deletes all characters left of the cursor
- Alt-L -- deletes all characters right of the cursor
- Alt-K -- deletes all characters on the line
- ^U -- undeletes text
- Alt-U -- undeletes text
- ESC -- gets rid of currently displayed command
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