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- /* (dos) Help file for The Hessling Editor 1.5 */
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-
- Command-line invocation:
-
- the [-h?nms] [-p profile] [-a profile_arg] [-w width] [[dir] [file [...]]]
-
- Where:
- -h or -? Display usage information and version.
- -n Do not execute a profile file.
- -m Force display into mono, ignoring colour support.
- -s A debugging aid for Unix versions. Turns off signal trapping.
- -p profile The name of the profile file to use. If not specified,
- the file "PROFILE.THE" will be used, unless overridden
- by the environment variable "THE".
- -a prof-arg Used to pass a string to the profile file as argument.
- Only works with REXX macros.
- -w width Length of longest line THE can handle (default 2048)
- dir Will display a directory of the specified dir.
- file [..] Specifications of file(s) to edit. If multiple files
- are specified, each will be put in a separate file in
- the ring. The first one specified will be displayed.
- If no files are specified, the current directory will
- be displayed.
- Issuing [SOS EDIT] on a file spec will edit that file.
- [SOS EDIT] on a subdir will display that directory.
-
- Option flags must be specified in LOWER case.
-
-
- Environment variables used:
- --------------------------
- See Appendix 1 of the.man
-
- Notes:
- - The capitalised portion of a command is the minimum abbreviation
- for the command.
- - UP, DOWN, NEXT differ from XEDIT and Kedit in that they do not
- accept numerical arguments abutted to the command name.
- Thus "N3" is not supported.
-
-
- Allowed
- THE Commands: in Profile
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- ! [command...]
- Execute host command; pause before returning
- ?
- Retrieve last command from command line
- = Y
- Execute the last command issued on the
- command line
- ADD [n] Y
- insert [n] blank lines below current line
- BAckward [n|*]
- move backward through the file [n] screens
- BOTtom Y
- got to bottom of file
- CANcel Y
- Quit out of all files in the ring that do
- not have any pending changes
- CCancel Y
- Qquit out of all files in the ring ignoring
- files that have pending changes
- Change /string1/string2/ [target] [n] [m] Y
- changes n occurrences of string1 to string2
- for target
- CMSG [message] Y
- display message on command line
- COMMAND command [options] Y
- execute command without synonym or macro transation
- COPY BLOCK [RESET]
- copies marked block after focus line
- DEFine key-name command|nop [parameters] Y
- Assigns key to execute command and parameters.
- Cannot be used to define macros.
- DELete [target|BLOCK] Y
- delete specified target or block
- DIRectory|LS [path]
- show list of specified directory/files and
- allow editing
- DOS [command...]
- execute host command; pause before returning
- DOSNowait command
- execute OS command; no pause before returning
- DOSQuiet command
- execute OS command quietly; no pause
- Down [n|*] Y
- move current line forward [n] lines
- DUPlicate [n] [target|BLOCK] Y
- duplicates, n times, lines in the current target
- Edit [fileid] Y
- begin editing specified file or switch
- between files
- EMSG [message] Y
- display error message and ring bell(if BEEP ON)
- EXPand [target] Y
- expand tabs to spaces within target
- EXTract /item/[...] Y
- extract values on various settings
- (only valid from a REXX macro)
- FFile [fileid] Y
- write contents of file to disk (overwritng)
- and and remove from ring
- FILE [fileid] Y
- write contents of file to disk and and remove
- from ring
- FILLbox [char]
- fill the marked block with the supplied character
- FOrward [n|*]
- move forward through file [n] screens
- GET [fileid] Y
- insert into current file contents of
- specified file
- HELP
- edit file specified by environ variable
- THE_HELP
- Input [line contents] Y
- Add a line after the current line with line
- contents.
- Join [ALigned]
- Joins a line with the following line.
- [Locate] target Y
- make line identified by target become current
- line
- LOWercase [target] Y
- change the uppercase characters in target
- to lowercase
- LS|DIRectory [path]
- show list of specified directory/files and
- allow editing
- MACRO filename
- The file "filename" will be invoked.
- No default extension.
- MARK Line|Box
- mark focus line block or box block
- MODify set-option
- display current setting for modification
- MOVE BLOCK [RESET]
- move marked block to focus line/column
- MSG [message] Y
- display message
- Next [n|*] Y
- move current line forward [n] lines
- NEXTWindow
- switch between screens or to the next file
- in the ring
- NOMSG command [parameters] Y
- execute command, suppressing messages
- OS [command...]
- execute host command; pause before returning
- OSNowait command
- execute OS command; no pause before returning
- OSQuiet command
- execute OS command quietly; no pause
- OVERLAYBox
- overlay the contents of the marked block over the
- characters at the current cursor position
- PRint [target][n]|LINE [text]|STRING [text]|FORMfeed|CLOSE Y
- print specifed data to the default printer or print
- spooler
- PUT [target] [fileid] Y
- write targetted lines to fileid
- PUTD [target] [fileid] Y
- write targetted lines to fileid and delete
- targetted lines
- QQuit Y
- cancel any changes to file (since last
- save/autosave) and remove file from ring
- Query item
- Displays values for the specified item.
- QUIT Y
- remove file from ring
- RECover [n|*]
- recover deleted or changed lines
- REDRAW
- redraw screen after disturbance
- REFRESH
- repaint screen during macro execution
- Replace [text] Y
- replaces the current/focus line with the
- specified text.
- RESet Block|Prefix|ALL
- resets the marked block and/or pending prefix
- commands
- SAVE [fileid] Y
- write changes to file to disk; remain in ring
- SCHange /string1/string2/ [target] [n] [m]
- selectively changes n occurrences of string1
- to string2 for target
- SET [parameter ..] Y
- Detailed below.
- SHift Left|Right [n] [target] Y
- shift text n columns within the target area
- SHOWkey
- show key pressed and command assigned
- SORT target [[[Ascending|Descending] left_col right_col] [...]] Y
- show key pressed and command assigned
- SOS
- Not implemented as a command in itself,
- but used as a command prefix for other
- commands.
- See ("SOS Function") section below.
- SPlit [ALigned]
- Splits a line into two.
- SPLTJOIN
- split or join focus line and next line
- SSave [fileid] Y
- write changes to file to disk (overwriting);
- remain in ring
- STATus [filename] Y
- display a full screen of status information or
- output to filename as SET commands. with [filename]
- valid from profile file.
- SUSPend
- suspend THE and return to operating system
- TABCmd
- move cursor to/from command line and body or
- prefix.
- TABPre
- move cursor between body and prefix
- TEXT text
- simulate keyboard entry of text
- THE [fileid] Y
- begin editing specified file or switch
- between files
- TOP Y
- move current line to top of file
- Up [*|n] Y
- move current line up n lines
- UPPercase [target] Y
- change the lowercase characters in target
- to uppercase
- Xedit [fileid] Y
- begin editing specified file or switch
- between files
-
-
- SET parameters:
- ---------------
- [SET] ARBchar ON|OFF [char] Y
- sets arbitrary character processing status
- Default: OFF ?
- [SET] AUtosave OFF|[n] Y
- sets frequency of automatic file saves
- Default: OFF
- [SET] BACKup ON|OFF Y
- Toggles generation of "fname.BAK" on and off.
- Default: ON
- [SET] BEEP ON|OFF Y
- Toggles sounding of bell for error messages.
- Default: OFF
- [SET] CASE Mixed|Lower|Upper [Respect|Ignore] [Respect|Ignore] Y
- [Respect|Ignore]
- Control handling of case of characters in
- input, searches, changes, and sorting.
- Default: MIXED IGNORE RESPECT RESPECT
- [SET] CLEARScreen ON|OFF Y
- indicates if screen cleared on exit
- Default: OFF
- [SET] CLOCK ON|OFF Y
- turn on or off display of time
- Default: ON
- [SET] CMDArrows Retrieve|Tab Scroll|Tab Scroll|Tab Y
- set behaviour of arrow keys
- Default: Retrieve Scroll Scroll
- [SET] CMDline Top|Bottom Y
- set location of command line
- Default: Bottom
- [SET] COLOUR|COLOR area [modifier] [foreground background] Y
- sets the colour/attribute of the indicated area
- of the screen
- Valid values for 'area':
- Filearea - area containing file lines
- CUrline - the current line
- Block - marked block
- CBlock - current line if in marked block
- Cmdline - command line
- Idline - line containing file specific info
- Msgline - error messages
- Arrow - command line prompt
- PRefix - prefix area
- Pending - pending commands in prefix
- Scale - line showing scale line (N/A)
- TOfeof - *** Top of File *** and *** Bottom of File *** lines
- CTofeof - as above if the same as current line
- Tabline - line showing tab positions (N/A)
- SHadow - hidden line marker lines (N/A)
- STatarea - line showing status of editing session
- Divider - dividing line between vertical split screens
- Reserved - reserved lines
- Valid values for 'foreground' and 'background':
- BLAck,BLUe,Green,Cyan,RED,Magenta,Yellow,White
- Valid values for 'modifier':
- NORmal,BLInk,BOld,BRIght,High,REVerse,Underline
- [SET] CURLine M[+n|-n] | [+|-]n Y
- set current line on screen
- Default: 6
- [SET] DIRInclude *|[Normal][System][Hidden][Readonly][Directory]
- set file mask for subsequent DIR|LS commands
- (only meaningful for DOS or OS/2)
- [SET] EOLOut CRLF|LF Y
- specify line terminating character(s)
- Default: LF (Unix), CRLF (other)
- [SET] ETMODE ON|OFF Y
- indicate if extended ASCII characters displayed
- Default: OFF (Unix), ON (other)
- [SET] HEX ON|OFF Y
- set behaviour of strings entered as hex
- Default: OFF
- [SET] HEXDISPLay ON|OFF Y
- turn on or off display of character representation
- on status line
- Default: ON
- [SET] IMPcmscp ON|OFF Y
- indicates status of implied operating system command
- processing
- Default: ON
- [SET] IMPMACro ON|OFF Y
- indicates status of implied macro processing
- Default: ON
- [SET] IMPOS ON|OFF Y
- indicates status of implied operating system command
- processing
- Default: ON
- [SET] INSERTMode ON|OFF|TOGGLE Y
- sets insert/overwrite mode beahviour
- Default: TOGGLE
- [SET] LINENd ON|OFF [char] Y
- sets LINEND value to enable multiple commands on
- command line
- Default: OFF #
- [SET] MACROExt [ext] Y
- sets default file extension for macro files
- Default: .the
- [SET] MACROPath [path] Y
- sets directory for searching for macros
- Default: (current directory)
- [SET] MARGins left right [indent] Y
- sets margins for wordwrap
- Default: 1 72 +0
- [SET] MSGMode ON|OFF Y
- turn display of messages on or off
- Default: ON
- [SET] NEWLines Aligned|Left Y
- set position of cursor after blank line added
- Default: Aligned
- [SET] NONDisp char Y
- specify character to display for non-displayed
- characters
- Default: #
- [SET] NUMber ON|OFF Y
- indicate if numbers are to appear in prefix area
- Default: ON
- [SET] PENDing ON|OFF|BLOCK [string] Y
- set status of pending prefix commands
- [SET] Point .name [OFF] Y
- assign a name to a line
- [SET] PREfix ON|OFF [Left|Right] Y
- [SET] PREfix Synonym newname oldname Y
- define if and where prefix area to be displayed or
- define a prefix synonym
- Default: ON LEFT
- [SET] PRINTER name Y
- specify command used to print lines
- [SET] REPROFile ON|OFF Y
- indicate if profile command to be reexecuted
- for each file edited
- Default: OFF
- [SET] REXXOUTput File|Display n Y
- indicate if REXX output to be displayed or
- captured to a file, and set line limit
- Default: DISPLAY 1000
- [SET] STAY ON|OFF Y
- control how current line is determined after
- CHANGE
- Default: ON
- [SET] TABKey Tab|Character Tab|Character Y
- set action of TAB key in different input modes
- Default: Tab Character
- [SET] TABS INCR n Y
- control width of tabs
- Default: 8
- [SET] TABSIn ON|OFF [n] Y
- control handling of tabs when reading in file
- contents
- Default: OFF 8
- [SET] TABSOut ON|OFF [n] Y
- control handling of tabs when writing out
- file contents
- Default: OFF 8
- [SET] Verify n [m|*] Y
- set columns to display
- Default: 1 *
- [SET] WORDWrap ON|OFF Y
- sets wordwrap on or off
- Default: 1 72 +0
- [SET] Zone n [m] Y
- control target columns for locates and changes
- Default: 1 *
-
-
- SOS functions:
- --------------
- These functions are more effective if assigned to a key.
-
- SOS ADDline
- insert line after focus line
- SOS CURSORAdj
- move first non-blank character of line to cursor position
- SOS DELBAck
- delete character to left of cursor
- SOS DELChar
- delete character under cursor
- SOS DELEnd
- delete all characters to right of cursor
- SOS DELLine
- delete focus line
- SOS DELWord
- delete word at or to right of cursor
- SOS DOPREfix
- When invoked, will cause commands in the
- prefix area to be executed.
- SOS EDIT
- edit file in DIR.DIR list
- SOS ENDChar
- move cursor to end or start of line
- SOS MAKECURR
- makes the command line the same line as
- the focus line
- SOS TABf
- move cursor to next tab stop
- SOS TABWORDB
- move cursor to start of previous word
- SOS TABWORDf
- move cursor to start of next word
- SOS UNDO
- restore contents of line to original
-
-
- Other key-only commands:
- -----------------------
- Commands that are all lower case CANNOT be used
- on the command line, but MUST be assigned to a
- key in order to function.
-
- cmatch
- find matching bracket/brace/parenthesis
- '<>{}[]()'
- control_char
- allows the user to enter control characters
- down_arrow
- move cursor down one line, scrolling if
- necessary
- (next command displayed if on command line)
- enter
- execute command on command line or next line
- left_arrow
- move cursor left one column scrolling if
- necessary
- right_arrow
- move cursor right one column scrolling if
- necessary
- up_arrow
- move cursor up one line, scrolling if
- necessary
- (prev command displayed if on command line)
-
-
- THE prefix commands:
- -------------------
- a - add blank line
- i
- / - make line current line
- c - copy line
- m - move line
- d - delete line
- " - duplicate line
- p - target for c and m - prior to line
- f - target for c and m - following line
- > - shift line right
- < - shift line left
- cc - copy line block
- mm - move line block
- dd - delete line block
- "" - duplicate line block
- >> - shift line block right
- << - shift line block left
- .xxxxx - give name to line
-
-
- THE Targets:
- -----------
- Absolute line target: :12
- Relative line target: 12 -4 *
- String target: /string/ -/string/
- All lines in file: ALL
-
-
- Default Key Assignments:
- ------------------------
- The first column is the name of the key in its normal state. Shifted
- keys have a 'S-' prefix, control keys have a 'C-' prefix and Alt keys
- have a 'A-' prefix. Thus key names for F1 are: F1,S-F1,C-F1 and A-F1.
- The key names are the same as displayed by the showkeys command.
-
- ---------+-------------------+-----------+--------------+-------------
- Key Name | Normal | Shifted | Control | Alt
- ---------+-------------------+-----------+--------------+-------------
- F1 | help | locate | |
- F2 | nextwindow | | |
- F3 | file | qquit | |
- F4 | sos addline 1 | | |
- F5 | sos makecurr | | |
- F6 | | | |
- F7 | cmatch | | |
- F8 | recover | | |
- F9 | sos delline 1 | | |
- F10 | spltjoin | | |
- F11 | | | point .a |
- F12 | control_char | | locate .a |
- CURU | up_arrow | | |
- CURD | down_arrow | | |
- CURL | left_arrow | | sos tabwordb |
- CURR | right_arrow | | sos tabwordf |
- INS | insertmode toggle | | |
- DEL | sos delchar | | |
- HOME | tabcmd | | |
- END | sos endchar | | sos delend |
- PGUP | backward 1 | | top |
- PGDN | forward 1 | | forward * |
- BKSP | sos delback | | |
- ENTER | enter | | |
- PLUS | tabpre | | |
- NUMENTER | sos doprefix | | |
- ESC | sos undo | | |
- TAB | sos tabf | | |
- A | | | sos cursoradj|
- B | | | | mark box
- C | | | | copy block reset
- D | | | | duplicate 1 block
- F | | | | fillbox
- G | | | | delete block
- J | | | | join aligned
- K | | | | copy block
- L | | | | mark line
- M | | | | move block
- O | | | | overlaybox
- R | | | redraw |
- S | | | | split aligned
- U | | | | reset block
- W | | | | sos delword
- X | | | | sos edit
- Z | | | suspend |
- ---------+-------------------+-----------+--------------+-------------
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