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- Uedit-Tutor
- Copyright (C) 1986-88, Rick Stiles
-
- ((See Uedit-Policy for purchasing info.))
-
-
- **** DISCLAIMER ****
- I can accept no responsibility, if you crash your Amiga or lose text files
- with Uedit. No guarantees, either explicit or implied, are made as to Uedit's
- safety. If you use it, it is at your own risk.
- **** ********* ****
-
- Dear folks,
-
- (See Getting Started, below, for immediate instructions.)
-
- Uedit is an editor which has most wordprocessing features.
-
- It strives to provide the utmost in: Power, access, flexibility and
- customizability, capacity, and ability to automate tedious editing chores.
-
- Many use Uedit as their only wordprocessor, because it has all the wp features
- they need. It can do powerful things that wordprocessors cannot do, and it
- can do what you want in dozens or hundreds of ways instead of in just one
- "hardwired" way.
-
-
- Uedit is Shareware. You can get a copy from a friend or off a computer
- network and try it out. The social contract of Shareware is: Try it for as
- long as you need to, in order to decide whether to use it or not. If you use
- it, you must buy it.
-
- The Shareware version of Uedit doesn't include the full documentation and
- isn't fully customizable. It doesn't include the Uedit program with the
- built-in compiler. You get these by becoming a registered user.
-
- For ordering information, see Uedit-Policy.
-
-
- About Uedit
-
-
- You can try Uedit immediately without reading beyond this paragraph. The
- menus, Help, and Teach Mode will get you going.
-
- When you use Teach Mode, be sure to try the shift/alt/ctrl/Amiga shift keys,
- to find out what the various combinations do with the keys and mouse-clicks
- and gadgets in the message line. Abort out of Teach Mode with Amiga-ESC.
-
- The goals in writing Uedit were openness, flexibility, power, friendliness -
- above all to give Freedom of Choice to the user.
-
- Being able to edit 100 files is only the beginning of the depth Uedit has got.
-
- Learn Mode adds a new dimension, providing instant automation for people who
- hate reading instructions and only want to know enough to get the job done.
-
- The command language adds another dimension, letting you rewrite Every
- command, even the gadget and mouse button commands - on the fly.
-
- Then there is the overall configurability and customizability, being able to
- swap and kill keys, change colors, customize the menus, etc.
-
- Then there is the ability to switch configurations, changing the entire
- personality of Uedit in seconds, without interrupting editing.
-
- Then there is the fact that it sleeps so that other tasks run efficiently and
- can start other tasks and load in their results so that you can use them.
-
- Finally, the ARexx interface allows you to send commands or text to Uedit
- from CLI or from host programs, thereby controlling Uedit from outside. It
- allows Uedit to exchange data with ARexx host programs.
-
- The spell-checking version of Uedit (see Uedit-Policy) allows you to spell-
- check documents, build dictionaries, create and use dictionary supplements,
- and so on.
-
- BlitzFonts in Shareware will give you faster text displaying with your
- programs on the Amiga, including Uedit. BlitzFonts is on Uedit's diskette.
- (Please send Hayes Haugen $10, if you use his program.)
-
-
- Features
-
-
- Uedit has too many features to go into here. To name just a few, it has on-
- line Help facility as well as Teach Mode that teaches the purpose of keys,
- gadgets, clicks, and menu selections.
-
- It has split windows, colored (hilite and invert) regions, interlace screen
- and RGB color tuning, mouse-scrolling and mouse cursor-placement, a full set
- of cut/copy/paste/clear capabilities, for both regular and columnar text.
-
- It lets you edit up to 100 files at once, has paragraph reformatting, page-
- making commands, printer selection and controls, undo-deletes, search-replace,
- edit-while-you-print up to 12 documents or regions, ctrl-click-loading of any
- filename anywhere, an interface that lets you use ARexx, and much more.
-
- The reason that Uedit's features can't be listed is that the user can create
- new ones anytime.
-
- To gain access to Uedit's full customizability, you must have the version
- that compiles commands and configuration files.
-
- For instance, in this Shareware release, the Key-Help file must be in your
- current directory in order for Teach Keys to work. When you get the UE
- program, the Key-Help file can be created, named, and located, along with
- countless other changes you can make in how Uedit works.
-
-
- A Word of Advice
-
-
- If you are not a programmer, or even if you are, ignore Uedit's command
- language and anything technical-sounding in this tutorial.
-
- Uedit was written for ordinary people, not for hackers, although it is true
- that most users are technical people. But you don't need to memorize
- anything technical in order to do powerful and automatic things with the
- program.
-
- Just try Uedit. See how you like it.
-
- Press the Help key. Look at the menus. Select "Teach Keys" or "Teach one" to
- discover key assignments. Print out the Cheat-Sheet file, if you want a
- hardcopy for handy reference.
-
- And remember: Almost anything you don't like can be changed by the user.
-
-
- Getting Started
-
-
- Workbench and CLI:
-
- You can run Uedit immediately in Workbench by clicking its icon.
-
- You can run it immediately in CLI by typing "Run UES file1 file2 file3 etc".
-
- To be able to run UES from any directory, run CLI and type the following:
- Copy UES C:
- Copy NoName.info S:
- Copy Data! S:
- Copy Help! S:
-
-
- Now you can run Uedit from any directory. NoName.info must be in S:, if you
- are going to select "Make icons" so that Uedit will create file icons for you.
-
- Data! and Help! must either be in S: or in your current working directory.
-
- Key-Help, which is used when you select "Teach keys" must be in your current
- directory (until you get the full Uedit).
-
-
- Here is what the key-prefixes mean in the menu selections: S=Shift, A=Alt,
- C=Ctrl, L=leftAmiga, R=rightAmiga. Keypad keys are abbreviated with "kp".
-
-
- If a menu selection says "L-0", it means that holding down the left Amiga key
- and pressing "0" will do the same thing as the menu entry. If it says "SA-
- kp7", it means hold down Shift and Alt keys and press the 7 on the keypad.
-
- Select "Teach keys" to learn about Uedit's keys. When finished with Teach
- Keys, press Amiga-ESC.
-
- Amiga-ESC is Uedit's general purpose Abort key. Use it to Abort any operation.
-
-
- The function keys, F1 thru F10, do the following (with no shift keys):
-
- F1 = next file
- F2 = save file
- F3 = close file
- F4 = quit
- F5 = swap next 2 commands
- F6 = compile command following cursor (You need the full Uedit.)
- F7 = input search text and search fwd
- F8 = input replace text
- F9 = search fwd
- F10 = replace & search fwd
-
-
- Files and buffers: Uedit has 100 buffers, which can be used for holding
- documents and bits and pieces of text. The lowest buffer numbers are used for
- holding documents.
-
- How many files (documents) Uedit will let you load in is determined by the
- "Max files" menu selection.
-
- The easiest way to load a file is to Ctrl-click its name in Uedit.
-
- Thus, it's a good idea to keep a one-page file handy that has all of your
- filenames in it, and always load this file when you run Uedit. In one
- window's worth of text, you can scatter dozens of directory/filenames. Then
- you can click-load any document that you want.
-
- But you can also select "Directory", get a directory listing, and click-load
- files from it as well.
-
- The "Files" menu lets you load/insert/rename/restore/save/close files. But
- you will soon be doing these with the function keys and mouse.
-
- To make the 4 invisible "gadgets" in the message line visible or invisible,
- press Ctrl-g.
-
- To make the cursor page/row/column info visible or invisible, press ctl-2.
- (These are in the menus: "Mark gadgets" and "Row/Column".)
-
-
- Scrolling: Scroll vertically by holding down the mouse button and moving the
- mouse. The arrow keys also do vertical and horizontal scrolling.
-
- For faster scrolls, either hold down the up/down arrow key or use Shift, Alt,
- or Ctrl with the arrow key. For a slower scroll, use the up/down gadgets.
-
-
- Moving the Cursor: Much of the time you may prefer placing the cursor by
- clicking the mousebutton in the text.
-
- The keypad keys 2, 4, 6, & 8 move the cursor up/down/left/right by word/
- character/line/page depending on which shift key is used.
-
- (Teach Keys will give you the sense of the keypad keys.)
-
-
- Scratch deleting is what you'd normally use in meat & potatoes text work. The
- following keys do scratch deletes at the cursor location:
-
- Ctrl-d deletes the entire cursor line.
- Keypad-7 (unshifted) deletes word-left.
- Keypad-9 (unshifted) deletes word-right.
- Shift-kp7 (press Shift and then keypad-7) deletes character left.
- Shift-kp9 deletes the character under the cursor.
- Alt-kp7 (press Alt and then keypad-7) deletes to start of line.
- Alt-kp9 deletes to end of line.
- Ctrl-kp7 deletes to top of window.
- Ctrl-kp9 deletes to bottom of window.
-
- These are the "scratch" delete keys. When you do them, the deleted material
- is stored in the scratch-delete (Undo) buffer.
-
- Long as you don't move the cursor and make a delete somewhere else, you can
- store any number of scratch deletes.
-
- Undo scratch deletes: Pressing keypad-0 inserts the Undo buffer at the cursor.
-
- Thus, after doing a series of scratch deletes using the above keys, you can
- place the cursor somewhere, press keypad-0, and insert the deleted material.
-
- If you move the cursor and do another scratch delete, the Undo buffer is
- cleared before the newly deleted text is stored. You will find that you do
- most of your cut & paste the quick & dirty way, using scratch-deletes and the
- Undo key.
-
-
- If you select "Undo buffer" in the Split Window menu, you can monitor the
- contents of the Undo buffer and even type into it.
-
- There can be up to 8 split windows in use.
-
-
- There are many ways to do cut/copy/paste operations with Uedit and to do them
- in parallel.
-
- You can be doing cut & paste using scratch deletes, hilite region, invert
- region, and columnar data, all at the same time. If these aren't enough,
- you've got 100 buffers to put bits and pieces into.
-
-
- Creating a hilite region: There are 3 ways to mark a hilite region. Press
- HELP and it will show them to you.
-
- But rather than do that, try this: Place the mouse high up and to the left in
- the text. Hold down the Shift key and click the mouse.
-
- Move the mouse to the lower right in the text. Hold down the Alt key and
- click the mouse.
-
- There should now be a hilited region. This is one method of hiliting.
-
-
- Try this: Select "Hilite buf" in the Split Window menu. This shows you the
- contents of the copied hilite buffer.
-
- Put the cursor anywhere in the colored, hilited region.
-
- Now press keypad-Minus, the "-" key on the keypad. This "cuts" the hilited
- region. The region disappears. (Don't move the cursor yet!)
-
- Note that the cut material appeared instantly in the "Copied hilite" buffer.
-
- Now press keypad-Enter. This puts the "cut" text back where it was. And it
- is hilited. To unhilite it, press alt-h or select "Unhilite".
-
-
- To get rid of a split window, click the mousebutton in it, making it the
- active window-split. Then select "Elim curr" in the Split Window menu.
-
-
- Columnar text operations: Columnar regions are rectangular.
-
- This means that when you create a hilite region to use for columnar text
- movement, the Start of the hilite region must be in a Lefthand column and the
- End of the hilite region must be in a Righthand column.
-
-
- Place the mouse high up in the text and to the left. Press Shift and click
- the mousebutton.
-
- Place the mouse low down and to the right, pointing to some word in the text.
- Press Alt and click the button.
-
- Select "Col display" in the Edits menu. Now the region should be displayed as
- rectangular.
-
-
- Select "Col copy" in the Columnar menu (inside the Edits menu). This makes a
- copy of the columnar region.
-
- Put the cursor anywhere with the mouse. Select "Col insert" in the Columnar
- menu and see what happens.
-
- To remove the inserted, hilited columnar region, select "Col cut" in the menu.
-
-
- You should experiment with the columnar text manipulations in order to
- understand them. (If you altered this Uedit-Tutor file just now, select
- "Restore" in the Files menu to restore it to the original.)
-
-
- When using columnar display mode, TABS are shown as "box" characters. This is
- so that columns line up correctly when spaces and TABS are intermingled, as
- they very often are.
-
-
- Tab Ruler: There are 5 tab tables in Uedit, numbered 0 to 4.
-
- You can change the tab table your document is using by selecting "Tab table"
- in the menu.
-
- Individual documents can use different tab tables. The tab ruler shows the
- tabs in the current document's tab table.
-
-
- Select "See ruler" to see what the tab columns are or select "Set ruler" to
- set the tab columns.
-
-
- If you have selected "Set ruler" and wish to set tabs at high columns beyond
- the right edge of the window, hold the mousebutton down and drag the mouse to
- the left, then release the button.
-
- To slide the ruler to the right, drag the mouse rightward.
-
-
- Tab columns can be set by clicking the mouse within 2 lines of the ruler, or
- by using the keys that the help message says to.
-
-
- Interlace mode: You can see twice as many lines of text by selecting
- "Interlace" in the Global Modes menu (or by pressing Shift-ESC).
-
- To return to normal Workbench window, select it again. (Tuning the colors is
- discussed below.)
-
-
- Printing: In the "Printing" menu, select "Print select" and put in a number 0
- to 3, telling Uedit where you want your printing to go.
-
- The message line tells you what the numbers 0-3 mean:
- 0 = raw text out the parallel port
- 1 = raw text out the serial port
- 2 = processed text using the Amiga's printer device
- 3 = raw text using the Amiga's printer device
-
-
- If you embed Uedit's printer control codes in your text (such as for boldface,
- italics, etc) using the "Bracket hilite" or "Embed code" menu selections, you
- must set "Print select" to 2 or 3.
-
-
- If you embed your own custom printer codes in the text, then you can use
- "Print select" values 0, 1, or 3, and they will be sent to your printer in raw
- form. (Print-select value 2 allows the printer device to "strip out" any
- control codes that the Amiga printer device doesn't recognize.)
-
-
- (To embed CTRL characters, such as ESC, press ctl-c and then the desired
- character. To identify any control character in the text, put the cursor on
- it and press ctl-/.)
-
-
- Print queue: In the printing menu, you can select "Print hilite" or "Print
- file".
-
- Long as the print-job will fit into memory, you can queue up as many as 12
- print-jobs and still go on editing while they print.
-
-
- You can even queue up print jobs to different printers, by changing "Print
- select" before selecting "Print hilite" or "Print file" for each print-job.
-
- If the print-job is too big for memory, you will have to wait until printing
- is finished before you can continue editing.
-
-
- Save on idle: By selecting "Save on idle" in the Local Modes menu, your file
- will be saved during pauses in your work, if it has been changed.
-
- The length of the pause can be set by selecting "Idle timer".
-
-
- Margins, line-length, and lines-per-page: In the Line/Page menu are
- selections for lines/page, line-length, top/bottom margins, and end-of-line.
-
- If you want an "inner" left margin temporarily, simply indent the text and
- select "Autoindent", so that succeeding lines stay at the same indentation.
-
-
- To control the right margin, simply set line-length to the desired value.
-
- If you set Left Margin in the Line/Page menu to any value greater than 0,
- typing will use the new left margin value. Also, reformatting paragraphs will
- cause them to be reformated at the new left margin value.
-
- Thus you can reformat an inset paragraph so that it is moved to the far left
- by setting Left Margin to 1 and reformatting the paragraph. (See paragraph
- reformatting below.)
-
-
- Cursor page/row/column: To see the cursor's page/row/column, select "Row/
- column" in the Global Modes menu.
-
-
- Paragraph reformatting: To reformat a paragraph, put the cursor in the line
- where you want reformatting to begin. Then select "Paragraph" in the
- Reformats menu or press ctl-3.
-
-
- Paragraph reformatting ends when it reaches a blank line or a different
- indentation. Different indentation says that you want a different left
- margin, hence it is not considered part of the paragraph being reformatted.
-
-
- Page formatting: See the Page Formatting menu in the Edits menu.
-
- Pages are determined by formfeeds in the text or by the line-count, using the
- current lines-per-page value.
-
-
- The Page Formatting menu has selections for going to page#, going to top of
- page, going to bottom of page, inserting a page-division, deleting the next
- page-division, and auto-inserting page-divisions in your entire document.
-
-
- When a page-division is inserted, the page number is automatically put in.
-
- You can erase the page number by selecting "Del page #".
-
- Page numbers are put 1/2 the bottom margin distance from the bottom of the
- page, where the bottom of the page is simply the lines/page setting (normally
- 66).
-
- (Note that these are all user-customizable commands which you can modify when
- you get the full Uedit.)
-
-
- When a page-division is inserted, the top margin for the next page is also put
- in, after deleting any blank lines.
-
-
- The formfeed causes the display to draw a line across the window, making page
- divisions easy to locate visually.
-
-
- You can find page divisions quickly by using the "Bottom page" and "Top page"
- menu selections. (These are LeftAmiga-b and LeftAmiga-H.)
-
- To insert a page-division and page number at the cursor, press lAmiga-v or
- select "Divide page".
-
-
- To remove a page division, put the cursor anywhere in the page above the page
- division and press lAmiga-d or select "Del page div".
-
-
- Odds and Ends
-
-
- To abort any operation, press Amiga-ESC.
-
- Primitive Mode is used for special text and number inputs. The Title Bar and
- the message line tell you what to do in Primitive Mode.
-
- If you press F7 to input a search string, you'll be in Primitive Mode. Type
- in the search text, then press ESC or click the mousebutton to terminate the
- input.
-
- When in Primitive Mode, typing any Ctrl character will input the character
- directly.
-
- You can change the Primitive Mode terminator character from ESC to some other
- Ctrl character (such as the Return key) by selecting "PM terminator" in the
- menu or by pressing ESC.
-
-
- You can search for two things at once by putting a "$" dollar sign between two
- search strings.
-
- The "?" question mark is used by search as a wildcard.
-
- You can change these by selecting "Set wildcard" or "Set eitherOr".
-
- "Search caps" toggles on/off the upper/lower case-sensitivity of searching.
-
-
- In the message line (if "Mark Gadgets" in the Global Modes menu is turned On)
- are fake "gadgets", such as "Next file", "Prev file", and so on.
-
- These message-line gadgets are just like keys and mouse clicks. They can be
- swapped, killed, reprogrammed, learned, used in menu selections, and so on.
- Gadgets can be used with shift-keys, so there are actually 32 gadgets in all.
-
-
- Menu selections are always attached to a key, gadget or mouse button command.
-
- If you swap a menu selection, the key you swapped it with will be executed
- whenever you select that menu item.
-
-
- Uedit sleeps when it can, so that other tasks will run faster.
-
-
- Clicking the Title Bar will switch to the tiny window. The tiny window comes
- up inactive, so you can type into CLI immediately.
-
- This also lets the Amiga reopen the big window in a better memory location.
-
-
- Uedit works with Transactor Magazine's Tiny Window Manager, written by Nick
- Sullivan.
-
- If "TWM" is running on your Amiga, Uedit will not create its own tiny window
- but will instead alert TWM which will create a gadget for Uedit. ("TWM" is
- provided on Uedit's diskette.)
-
-
- If Uedit runs out of memory and the "Memory..." message appears, that means it
- is compacting its stuff in memory, creating a larger area for the Amiga to use
- for graphics.
-
- If "Memory..." appears, you ought to save and close some documents. Also it's
- a good idea to click the Title Bar and reopen Uedit's window.
-
-
- Uedit sleeps between your inputs. If you don't type anything for 4 seconds,
- it will do housekeeping.
-
- If you select "Busies", you'll see which buffer is being worked on. When the
- housekeeping is done, it sleeps.
-
-
- In the window's Title Bar, brackets [buf#,flags] contain the buffer number and
- various flags. If Learn Mode is currently learning, "L" will appear. If you
- are in Teach Mode, "T" will appear. If documents are queued up for printing,
- "P#" will appear, where # is the number of print jobs yet to be done, up to
- 12 maximum.
-
-
- Uedit picks up font changes made with Preferences or SetFont. It works with
- all known hardware add-ons.
-
- (Exception: Uedit has the handy feature of letting you Ctrl-click-load any
- filename in any buffer. However, early versions of the C Ltd. TimeSaver (tm)
- block out the Ctrl-mouse input. To get Ctrl-mouse, hold down Ctrl, touch
- Shift or Alt, and then click the mousebutton.)
-
-
- Some people start Uedit in their Workbench df0:S/Startup-Sequence and do
- everything from inside it. They let it run other tasks and continue editing
- or let it sleep.
-
-
- To see the current settings for line-length, lines/page, tab-table, margins,
- Uedit Serial Number, etc, press shift-HELP or select "Show vals". This also
- shows you the size of the current document.
-
- Some settings are global and others are local to the current document.
-
-
- Changing a local setting like word-wrap changes the global setting for future
- files loaded in.
-
- To rotate the 4 Workbench colors, press alt-HELP until you see a combination
- that you like.
-
- To tune the RGB colors in Uedit's interlace screen, select "Lace color", use
- the mouse to adjust colors. Press ESC to terminate the RGB color tuning.
-
-
- To recover the original configuration after fooling with commands, colors,
- etc, select "Load data".
-
- After making any of the changes discussed here, selecting "Save data" will
- save all current settings to disk.
-
-
- Editing Tricks
-
-
- If you are like me and hate reading instructions, and expect programs to be
- Easy Without Reading, then Learn Mode is for you.
-
- No reading is necessary. Learn Mode uses just the normal editing stuff.
-
- It offers immense power and capacity to automate tedious, repetitive jobs.
-
- If you need to search and replace misspelled names in 300 documents, you can
- teach Learn Mode how to do one and let it do them all while you take a break.
-
- To set up for such automation takes only as many seconds as it takes you to do
- one operation yourself, showing Learn Mode what to do.
-
-
- Simply press ctl-s to start Learn Mode, do the sequence of operations, and
- press ctl-r to end Learn Mode.
-
- Then press ctl-r to see how it works. If you did it right and it works right,
- press ctl-m to set the command multiplier and then press ctl-r to run it as
- many times as desired.
-
-
- The Manual has lots of Examples and Editing Tricks which show how to take
- advantage of Uedit's versatility and power. It describes how to use Learn
- Mode to click-add numbers or click-bracket words, do mail-merges, and so on.
-
-
- A useful trick is to swap "Run learn" (ctl-r) with the mouse's buttonUp
- operation. (A menu selection "Swap mouseUp" lets you do this swap.)
-
- Then when you click the button, buttonDown will deposit the cursor like it
- normally does, and buttonUp will execute a learned sequence!
-
-
- The learned sequence can be anything. It can, for instance, click-bracket
- text with printer control codes. The Manual's Editing Tricks presents many
- such examples.
-
-
- Or you can swap the mouse's buttonUp operation with another key, such as the
- add-numbers key (ctl-=). Just select "Swap mouseUp" and press ctl-=.
-
- Then you can click-add numbers that are scattered in various documents.
- Pressing ctl-\ will put the running total into the text at the cursor.
-
-
- Learned sequences can be stored on disk as numbered files. They are stored in
- your current directory. If you copy them to S:, Uedit will find them from
- any directory. The "Learn" menu lets you start, terminate, run, load, and
- save learned sequences.
-
- A stored learn sequence might, for example, go to top of document and type in
- a header, or go to bottom of document and type your name and address.
-
-
- Config! and Data!
-
-
- Config! is a configuration file which is the Source of every command Uedit
- currently uses.
-
- Config! is included with this Shareware distribution for informational
- purposes, even though you can't compile it with UES, the Shareware Uedit
- program.
-
- When you register, you'll get the fully customizable UE program and will be
- able to customize and compile Config! or custom configurations included in the
- Extras or your own custom configurations.
-
- Config! can be a series of files. The current standard ones are: Config!
- (defaults and menu selections) Config!M (misc) Config!P (printing commands)
- Config!R (ARexx cmds) and Config!S (spell-checking cmds)
-
- Custom configs can use any filename and A-Z filename suffixes.
-
-
- Users often modify Uedit's configuration to suit their personal needs. Simple
- changes are easy, even for non-technical users, because the command language
- reads like English.
-
- Even some relatively major changes are easy for non-programmers to make. Avid
- users create their own heavily customized configurations.
-
-
- Data! is a compiled copy of Config! which Uedit loads at startup.
-
- Data! should be in your S: area or in your current directory, along with
- Help!, the help file. If Data! is in S:, you can run Uedit from any directory
- or disk drive.
-
- (Normally S: is assigned to the DF0:S subdirectory. To assign it to
- myDirectory, type "Assign S: myDirectory" in CLI.)
-
-
- You can keep as many config and data files on hand as you want.
-
- The "Save data" and "Load data" selections in the menu let you switch
- configurations or save changes to Uedit that you have made while editing.
- Thus you can customize it while using it.
-
-
- You can load and save data files from/to any directory and under any name.
-
- You can customize Uedit virtually to the point of reinventing it.
-
-
- If you run Uedit by typing "Run UE -dDataFile .." or "Run UE -cConfigFile .."
- in CLI, it will load DataFile or compile ConfigFile. (You will need the full
- Uedit in order to compile a command or a config file.)
-
-
- You can have hundreds of commands on-line at the same time. Keys can load,
- compile, run, swap, and kill other keys, so there really is no limit to how
- many commands can be available at the press of a key.
-
- Also you can create Partial Data files which contain blocks of commands that
- can be loaded in collectively or individually.
-
-
- There can be up to 7 menus with up to 20 selections each with up to 12 submenu
- selections, making a total of 1680 submenu selections possible.
-
-
- The configurability of Uedit is extreme.
-
- For instance, a Directory Utility configuration is provided with the Extras.
- Using it, you can copy/delete/rename files among dozens of subdirectories
- while at the same time pulling in documents and reading/editing/saving them.
-
- All of this without even closing the documents you were working on before you
- switched over to the dir util config in the first place.
-
-
- Kurt Wessels wrote a config called UStar which emulates WordStar (tm) and
- Scribble! (tm). Kurt's UStar is included in the Extras that you receive on
- Uedit's diskettes when you register.
-
- Eric Kennedy wrote a VI! config which emulates the famous Unix(tm) vi editor.
- This too is included with the Extras. Unix users can feel right at home,
- using VI! instead of Uedit's standard configuration.
-
- Kent McPherson has written a Gold Key configuration that emulates the famous
- EDT Gold Key (tm) editor on DEC (tm) minicomputers.
-
- Others have written specialized configs for programming and to emulate popular
- word processors or to meet their personal needs. These are available on
- Extras disks or from their authors or in the public domain.
-
- Custom or emulation configs: So many emulation and custom configs are
- available that they can't possibly fit onto Uedit's 2 main disks, the
- Shareware disk and the Private disk.
-
- As Uedit has been enhanced, more space has been needed for the documentation,
- which has kept forcing more of the user-written configs off of the 2 main
- disks.
-
- Please note that the Extras on Uedit's disks may change without notice, for
- this reason.
-
-
-
- Acknowledgements
-
-
- I wish to thank the many users who have given helpful feedback on Uedit since
- it came out. Most of the improvements since V1.0 have been because of them.
-
- Used to be I included a list of names here, but now there are too many people
- to thank! So I will only mention John Youells and Mike Davenport, because
- they have helped Uedit for the longest time and are still doing so.
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- Your feedback will be appreciated.
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