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- FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HATE READING MANUALS!
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- Please just read this short file which contains a few key features that
- are not on the menus and you will miss if you don't read the whole manual.
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- YOU MAY EDIT MULTIPLE FILES FROM THE COMMAND LINE. For exmaple
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- EF MYFILE1 MYFILE2 MYFILE3
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- YOU MAY USE WILDCARDS IN FILE NAMES AT THE COMMAND LINE. For exmaple
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- EF *.C *.H *.DOC
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- ANOTHER WAY OF EDITING A LARGE NUMBER OF FILES from the command line is
- to make an ASCII file containing the names of the files you wish to edit
- (one file per line) and then type "ED @XXX" where XXX is the name of the
- list file.
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- IF YOU TYPE "EF" WITHOUT ANY PARAMETERS, EasyFold will attempt to load the
- same files as in the previous editing session.
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- TO ENTER A CARRIAGE RETURN IN A SEARCH/REPLACE STRING ENTER <CTRL-N>.
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- WHEN BEING PROMPTED FOR SEARCH/REPLACE/LOAD STRINGS you may type <Up> or
- <Down> to retrieve previously used strings.
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- YOU MAY USE WILDCARDS IN FILE NAMES WHEN ENTERING A FILE TO LOAD VIA THE
- LOAD COMMAND. In this case you will enter a directory browser.
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- WHEN BEING ASKED FOR FILENAME TO LOAD you may type <Up> or <Down> to retrieve
- previously used names.
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- YOU MAY INDENT / UN-INDENT A BLOCK OF TEXT by simply selecting the block and
- then typing <TAB> / <SHIFT-TAB>
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- <CTRL-HOME> / <CTRL-END> scroll the screen while leaving the cursor at the
- same position in the text.
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- IF YOU HAVE SVGA you may be able to edit in some other modes for example 132
- column modes. The actual mode numbers will be card dependant and you have to
- tell EasyFold these numbers in advance. EasyFold can access up to three
- extra screen modes by examining the environment variables EXMOD1, EXMOD2 and
- EXMOD3. For example on a 8900 based SVGA card, mode 90 is a 132x60 text mode
- so you would add the following line to your autoexec.bat to access this,
-
- SET EXMOD1=90
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- To find out what extra screen modes are available on your machine
- consult your video card manual.
-
- NOTE: At the time of writing only a few mouse drivers support 132 column
- modes.
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- ANY FILE WITH THE EXTENTION ".EF" will always be read and written to the
- editors working directory. This is usefull for often used files which you
- want to access from anywhere. For example you may keep a small ".EF" file
- containing your name and address for insertion into documents.
-
- NOTE: The location of the editors working directory is determined in
- the following order of priorities.
-
- 1. The dierctory specified by an environment variable "EFWORK".
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- 2. The directory specified by an environment variable "HOME".
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- 3. The directory that the editor executable is in.
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- WITH SOME NON-STANDARD VIDEO CARDS (especially in laptops) the cursor
- may not appear properly (or at all!) in which case you can tell EasyFold
- not to change the cursor appearance by setting an environment variable
- "TOUCH_CURS" equal to "0". This is done by adding the line:
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- set touch_curs=0
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- in your "AUTOEXEC.BAT".
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