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Welcome to QEdit Advanced - version 2.1 This is a licensed, commercial version of QEdit Advanced v2.1. Please help us stay in business by respecting our copyright and keeping this version private. Also, be sure to return the postage-paid registration card that came with your package. That is the only way we have of making sure that your name is in our database, without which you will not receive update notices (and discounts!) and technical support. Is this a borrowed copy of this software? If so, then please consider ordering your own personal copy, or persuading your company to purchase a license for it. QEdit has taken many work years, and hundreds of thousands of dollars, to develop and produce. Yet, QEdit is very reasonably priced, and we also offer attractive multi-user site licenses. There is also a shareware version of QEdit. This is *NOT* that version. Please review the contents of this file before using QEdit. It contains helpful information on the operation of QEdit and how to get assistance when you need it. The Release Notes for version 2.1 (section 3) contain an explanation of all features and changes in this release and some additional features not documented in the 2.1 addendum. Late-breaking news: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ QEdit TSR is now available! For those of you who would like to have access to your favorite editor at virtually anytime, in the middle of anything else, we at SemWare are proud to offer you QEdit TSR v1.1. Please call SemWare for details. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ QEdit is the winner of the Data Based Advisor Reader's Choice Award for best text or program editor of 1989. We thank our users for this vote of confidence and their continued support! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ QEdit for OS/2 is now available. If you'd like to have THE FASTEST editor available for OS/2, give SemWare a call! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There is now a special German version of QEdit available. It is based on version 2.1 of QEdit. All text displayed by the program (including the status line!) is in German; plus the reference manual was painstakingly translated by a native German. For information on ordering the German version you can give SemWare a call, or if you prefer, you can call our German distributor directly at: 49-761-87419. Ask to speak to Manfred Luft. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Contents -------- I Contents of QEdit Distribution Disk II Technical Support III Version 2.1 - Release Notes - February, 1990 IV Various Keyboard Definition Files Supplied I Contents of QEdit Distribution Disk --------------------------------------- File Description ------------ ---------------------------------------------------- Q.EXE The editor program. This is the only file required to run QEdit. QCONFIG.EXE The configuration program. QCONFIG.DAT The default Keyboard Definition File. QHELP.TXT The default Help text. READ.ME The file you are currently reading. Keyboard Definition Files for the following editors are provided: QCONFIG.B Brief 2.1 QCONFIG.NE Norton Editor 1.3 QCONFIG.PE2 PE II QCONFIG.WP WordPerfect 5 QCONFIG.WS WordStar 3.3 / SideKick 1.5 Help files for the above: QHELP.NE QHELP.PE2 QHELP.WP QHELP.WS QUPDATE.EXE Will copy the configuration information from QEdit versions 2.07 ,2.07A, or 2.08 to 2.1. Just run QUPDATE and follow the prompts. If you are NOT upgrading from 2.07, 2.07A or 2.1, you don't need this file. QDISK.EXE Run QDISK to obtain the amount of available memory and space on the current drive. SHOWKEY.EXE Displays the scancode for extended keys. CHUNKER.EXE Splits large files into chunks for editing by QEdit. Will also merge these chunks back into a single file. ATKYFAST.COM This program will speed up the keyboard response time on AT and 386 style computers. It is NOT a TSR. Just type ATKYFAST. Note that this program will not work on all clones, but it will not cause any problems on them either. QMAC.EXE Macro translator for QEdit. QMAC.DOC Macro translator documentation. The following files are courtesy of Karl Brendel, author of QFonEdit and ProFonEdit. MACROS.MIS Sample macros. MACROS.PAS Sample macros for Pascal programming. The following files are courtesy of Jerry Houston. QM.COM Mouse driver for QEdit. QM.DOC Mouse driver documentation. Notes ----- Other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. The ONLY file required to run QEdit is Q.EXE - the others are not required or used by the program. QEdit comes pre-configured to work on a large range of monitors. Because of this, the default colors are set up for a monochrome system. If you have a color system and would like to edit in color, then run the configuration program (QCONFIG), select the C)olors/screen options, and change the default colors. NOTE: We do NOT release patch files for QEdit, under any circumstances. We release only fully-executable files. If you encounter a "patch" or "modification" file that modifies your Q.EXE file, be aware that it does not originate from us, and we cannot be responsible for the behavior of a patched QEdit. The only program you should use to modify your copy of Q.EXE, is the QCONFIG program that came with it. Keep this in mind when calling for technical support. Please, make sure you read this entire file to take full advantage of the new commands/features in QEdit. II Technical Support --------------------- Due to the tremendous popularity of QEdit, we can give technical support ONLY to registered QEdit users. Please have your QEdit SERIAL NUMBER handy when you call. Please! Before you call us with a problem, make sure you have read this entire READ.ME file to determine if it solves your problem. If you should have to contact us, please provide or have available the following information: QEdit version number, date of Q.EXE on the original diskette, and serial number DOS version Computer model Amount of RAM Whether you are using a hard disk or floppy disk based PC The names of any memory-resident programs you have loaded You may obtain technical support directly from SemWare as follows: 1. Call our remote electronic bulletin board service. The board is operational 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Modem settings are <N81>, 9600 HST, 2400 or 1200 baud. The telephone number is: (404) 641-8968. 2. Write us at: (We've moved!) SemWare Technical Support 4343 Shallowford Rd., Suite C-3 Marietta, GA 30062-5003 3. Send Compuserve E-Mail to userid 71520,67 4. Call us directly at SemWare, (404) 641-9002. Support hours are 9 am to 5 pm (ET), Monday through Friday. 5. Send us a Fax at: (404) 640-6213 SemWare is committed to supporting registered users. However, we request that you reserve telephone support only for questions or problems requiring immediate attention. As always, if you have a suggestion that you think would improve our product, don't hesitate to let us know. By the way, SemWare has grown! We now have eight full-time people on staff to help serve you better, and we have also moved to larger facilities. III Version 2.1 - Release Notes - February, 1990 ------------------------------------------------ 2.1 summary of changes: ----------------------- QCONFIG: -------- Deletions: "number of rows on physical screen option" has been removed. QEdit now retrieves this information from the bios data area, so this option is no longer needed. "go to line number on command line option" has been removed. This has been replaced with a command line option. Additions: Under Advanced options: "Swap to Expanded memory or DISK on Dos and Shell commands?" "Drive to use for disk swapping [A..Z] *=default-drive ?" "Should the editor restore the starting drive/dir on program exit?" "Should the editor change the DOS PROMPT during a shell?" "Should [TabRt]/[TabLt] be allowed to shift an entire block?" Under general options: "Do you want the bell to sound on warning messages and missed searches?" Under printer options: "Default top margin for printing [0..100]?" "Default bottom margin for printing [0..100]?" QEdit CHANGES: -------------- New command line option: -n command line option. For example: q filename -n36 goes to line 36 in filename after initial load. Operational changes: The [Dos] and [Shell] commands can now optionally swap QEdit out to disk or EMS leaving only a 2k kernel in memory, thus allowing much more memory for running memory-hungry programs from QEdit, especially compilers. This option is configurable via QCONFIG as well as interactively using the [ToggleSwap] command, found on the "Other" pulldown menu. Once in the shell, QEdit will optionally append "[QE]" to the DOS prompt string, provided that: 1) You have defined the prompt environment variable. 2) There is enough space left in the environment. 3) You have set the "Change DOS PROMPT during a Shell" option to [Y]es. See QCONFIG, under Advanced options. If you have NOT defined the prompt environment variable, then we suggest you do so. It is helpful with DOS command line operations in general. A suggested prompt is (this should go in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file): set prompt=$p $t $g If you do have a prompt string defined, but you do not get the "[QE]" prompt in the QEdit shell, add the following to your AUTOEXEC.BAT: set x=x ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Column blocks can now be deleted [DeleteBlock] <Alt G>, printed [PrintBlock] <Esc><PB>, and written [WriteBlock] <Alt W> to disk. [TabRt]/[TabLt] when pressed while the cursor is inside a marked block and insert mode is on, shifts the entire block by the current cursor tab width. The window resize command allows up and down movement, instead of only up or only down. .cpp, .hpp, .cxx, .hxx have been added to the list of valid C Mode file extensions. Prompt boxes show prompt strings in the block attribute while they will be overwritten when a character is typed; once a character or editing key has been typed, prompt strings revert back to their default color. [CurrentFilename] is now available outside of prompt boxes. In previous versions, the [CurrentFilename] command was active only during a QEdit prompt box. This command now functions while editing, too. Find/Replace command changes: "L" option added to [Find], [FindReplace]. Limits the Find/FindReplace to the currently marked block. If the cursor is outside the marked block, or the "G" option is also selected, the search starts at the beginning of the block. Otherwise, the search starts at the current cursor position inside the block. "G" option in [Find], [FindReplace] now works as it does in WordStar and the Borland editors; i.e., it starts the search at the beginning of the file. In [FindReplace] you can now enter a number to limit the number of replaces. The find string is now highlighted after a successful find. You can press <^Break> to halt a repeated command and/or macro, and to halt a long [FindReplace]. New commands: ------------- Summary list: CenterLine <^OT> FillBlock <^KL> JFalse JTrue Jump RepeatCmd <^QQ> SetPrintBotMargin <ESC><P><O> SetPrintTopMargin <ESC><P><T> ToggleSwap <ESC><O><S> Detailed list: [CenterLine] <^OT> If the cursor is inside a column block, the lines encompassed by the block are centered using the left and right columns of the block as the margins. If the cursor is inside a line block, the lines encompassed by the block are centered using column 1 and the right margin as the margins. Otherwise, the line the cursor is on is centered, using column 1 and the right margin as the margins. [FillBlock] <^KL> The user is prompted for a character with which to fill the block. With this command, you can now use the following macro to move a block, and blank fill the space used by the block, instead of the text closing in around the block. The macro assumes a block is already marked. The block will be [Cut] to the clipboard or system scrap buffer. You can then insert the block where you like by pressing the [Paste] key <Grey *>: f10 MacroBegin GotoBlockBeg Cut Paste FillBlock ' ' Return UnmarkBlock Choose a key (<f10> in the above example), and assign this macro to it in the QCONFIG.DAT file. Run QCONFIG, configure the keyboard, and you now have a "copy with wipe" command! [JTrue], [JFalse] and [Jump] commands. These commands are intended for macro use. All QEdit commands set an internal QEdit result code of "True" if they executed successfully, or "False" if they did not. The [JTrue] and [JFalse] commands can be used to take advantage of that fact. [Jump] is just an unconditional jump. You can also define labels for branching, in the format "label:". The maximum label length is 15 characters. For Example: A command to delete from the cursor position to the beginning of the line, assigned to the f10 key: f10 MacroBegin begin: CursorLeft JFalse done: DelCh Jump begin: done: This MUST all occur on ONE LINE in your QCONFIG.DAT file. [RepeatCmd] <^QQ> Repeats the last executed command and/or macro "n" times. You are prompted for "n". You can stop the repeating at any time by pressing the <^Break> key. If the result code from the command is FALSE, or if a result code from any of the commands in the macro is FALSE, repetition halts. [SetPrintTopMargin] <ESC><P><T> [SetPrintBotMargin] <ESC><P><O> Set the top and bottom margins used when printing. If QEdit's print page size is set to 0, these commands have no effect. [ToggleSwap] <ESC><O><S> Toggles Expanded memory/Disk swapping for the [Dos] and [Shell] commands. This option can also be set via QCONFIG. IV Various Keyboard Definition Files Supplied ---------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION ----------- QEdit has an extraordinary capacity for customization. Almost every key on the keyboard can be assigned to any command, to achieve any sort of configuration the user might desire. In particular, users switching from another editor to QEdit can install QEdit to "emulate" the other editor. This decreases the amount of time spent learning QEdit. However, setting up the configuration file to emulate another editor can take a fair amount of time. We have provided a collection of ready-to-use keyboard definition files, to simplify the task of making QEdit work like a variety of other editors and word processors. Both a keyboard definition file (QCONFIG.*) and a help file (QHELP.*) are supplied for most of the emulations, allowing you to configure both your keyboard definition and help screen. CONTENTS -------- The following keyboard emulations are provided: Brief QCONFIG.B Norton Editor 1.3c QCONFIG.NE QHELP.NE Personal Editor II (IBM) QCONFIG.PE2 QHELP.PE2 WordPerfect 4.2/5.0 QCONFIG.WP QHELP.WP WordStar 3.3 (& SideKick/Borland Environments) QCONFIG.WS QHELP.WS INSTRUCTIONS ------------ It is strongly recommended that, after choosing your emulation, you print out all the files associated with it. There are two reasons for doing this. First, by reading the keyboard definition file, you can see where each and every key on the keyboard is assigned, as well as the various notes and comments included inside. Second, several of the keyboard definition files include instructions on how to answer the other questions and prompts within the configuration program to best emulate that editor. You will need a print-out of this information to refer to while running the QEdit configuration program (QCONFIG.EXE) Looking at the various help files may also give you some ideas for formatting a good help screen, if you decide to customize your own. Follow these steps to install the desired keyboard definition: 1. Put your chosen keyboard definition and help files (e.g., QCONFIG.WS and QHELP.WS) in the same directory with Q.EXE and QCONFIG.EXE. 2. Run QCONFIG, by simply entering the following from your QEdit directory: QCONFIG<Enter><Enter> 3. Select "K" from the configuration program menu to install K)eys. When prompted, enter the name of the desired keyboard definition file (e.g., QCONFIG.WS). 4. Select "H" from the configuration program menu to install H)elp. When prompted, enter the name of the appropriate help file (e.g., QHELP.WS). 5. If your keyboard definition file has comments indicating appropriate settings for other QCONFIG options, select those menu options and set them as required, or to your preference. 6. Press "S" to S)ave your modified Q.EXE to disk. And that's it! You should now be ready to go, with a version of QEdit that will act "just like" your former editor. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ---------------- Several of these files were originally submitted by QEdit users on SemWare's BBS. Thanks to Randy Wallin, Steve Lynch, Tim Farley, and many others for their input.