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- Hats off to PC Magazine for a very fine editor. I have made several changes
- that I think make it even better. For those unfamiliar with TED, I have
- included the original documentation untouched. My changes are described
- here.
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- The original ted 1.0 did not set the colors. Rather, it used the
- default system colors. This made for some wierd inverse-video
- colors when calling TED from DF or other shell programs. This was
- fixed in TED 1.1, using white-on-black for normal text, and reverse
- video for marked text and the function key line. TED 2 uses white-
- on-black for normal text, intense yellow for marked text and user
- prompts, cyan for the function key numbers, and brown for the
- function key descriptions. On monochrome systems TED 2 will use
- bright white on black for marked text and user prompts.
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- TED 2 defaults to overstrike mode. The 'I' and 'O' on the status line
- to indicate insert/overstrike mode have been removed. Rather, the
- cursor changes from normal size in overstrike mode to a large block
- when in insert mode.
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- Pressing Shift-F1 invokes the abort to DOS function immediately
- without the confirmation prompt as when pressing F1 alone.
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- The scroll function has been changed to full-screen minus one.
- Wherever the cursor is located on the screen, pressing Page Down
- will result in the line the cursor is on to become the first line
- on the screen.
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- The F7 and F8 function keys have been exchanged. This was done to
- coincide with the F8 save function of the Microsoft Editor. The
- functin key prompt "EXIT" has been changed to "SAVE" so as not to
- be confused with the ABORT function.
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- TED 2 uses .TED for backup file extension. This allows editing files
- without losing any .BAK files already on disk.
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- Read-only files may be edited without fear of losing the original.
- If filename.ext is read-only, it may be edited as usual. Filename.ext
- will be renamed filename.ted and retain the read-only attribute.
- If filename.ext is edited a second time, it will remain unchanged,
- and the edit session will be saved as filename.$$$. Carried further,
- filename.ext would always contain results of the first edit session,
- filename.$$$ would contain the most recent session, and filename.ted
- would always contain the original file.
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- TED does not clear the screen on exit, but the original used two lines
- to display the copyright after exit. This cause the screen to scroll,
- losing the first two lines on the screen. I have moved the copyright
- message to the beginning, which will display briefly before opening
- the file.
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- Mike Dexter
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