KEDIT User's Guide

1 KEDIT for Win dows user s GuideVer sion Soft ware Group, Box 532 Storrs, CT 06268 cem ber 2007 This PDF file con tains the full text of the KEDIT for Win dows user s Guide . The entire doc u -ment is in black and white, aside from the col ored KEDIT logo on the cover text of the KEDIT for Win dows Ref er ence Man ual is avail able in a sep a rate PDF con tents of both the Ref er ence Man ual and the user s Guide are also avail able in HTML Helpfor mat in the KEDIT for Win dows Help file, right 1983-2007 Mansfield Soft ware Group, Rights Re is a trade mark of Mansfield Soft ware Group, dows is a trade mark of Microsoft Cor po ra 1.

2 Overview of 2. Getting Installing Your First KEDIT The KEDIT Working in the File Working With The File The Window The Edit The Actions The Options Working with the Getting Ending a 3. Using KEDIT for Frame Window and Document CUA and Classic Blocks and The KEDIT Command Command Line Some Useful Editing Multiple The Character Converting between OEM and International Uppercase and Date and The Word Processing Starting a New Adjusting Formatting Syntax The Undo 4.

3 Keyboard and Using the CUA Moving the Entering and Editing Selecting Marking Persistent Moving and Copying Other Block Menus, Files, and Command Line and Prefix Summary of CUA Using the Classic Moving the Entering and Editing Marking Moving and Copying Other Block Menus, Files, and Command Line and Prefix Summary of Classic Summary of Differences Between Classic and CUA Interfaces Keyboard Mouse Entering Special 5. Menus and File Save Print Recently Edited File Edit Select Make Selective Go Actions Options Screen SET Save Window New Tile Tile Arrange Document Window Help KEDIT Help user s Reference KEDIT Web About KEDIT for Top New Open Save Print Quick Find Find Dialog Previous Next Cut to Copy to Paste from Bottom Copy Move Overlay Delete Shift Block Shift Block

4 Uppercase Lowercase Leftadjust Rightadjust Fill Set Go to Hide Excluded Show All Top Toolbar for Sort by Sort by Sort by Sort by Parent Top Toolbar for Empty New Open Exit 6. Types of Absolute Line Number Relative Line Number String Word More About String Named Line Line Class Some Further Other Uses for Group Column The Focus Line .. Regular Regular Expression Text Regular Expression Usage Regular Expression 7. The Prefix Prefix Prefix Area Keyboard Prefix Command 8.

5 Selective Line Editing and Selective Line General The MORE and LESS Editing Files that have Excluded SET Prefix Commands Related to Selective Line Editing Selection How ALL How X and S Highlighting 9. Tailoring SET KEDIT Overview of KEDIT Order of Initialization A Sample 10. Using Running Defining One-line Multi-line Storing Your Features of Variables and Expressions and Passing an Argument to a Debugging KEXX Using the The TRACE Instruction and the DEBUG Trace 11.

6 Sample Counting the Words in a KEDIT Key Working with KEDIT s Default Key Saving Your Place in a Saving the Contents of All Changed Batch Macro Putting Sequence Numbers into a Macros and KEDIT s 12. File File File Reading a File from Editing a Writing a File to EOLIN NONE and EOLOUT Long A. XEDIT B. for Win dows is a text edi tor for Microsoft Win dows. It pro vides many pow er -ful and use ful facil i ties for work ing with text files. KEDIT is typ i cally used to editcom puter pro grams, notes and memos, e-mail, lists of infor ma tion, and other tex tualdata filesKEDIT is aimed at users who have some famil iar ity with per sonal com put ers and withthe Win dows user inter face.

7 Pro gram ming expe ri ence is use ful for tak ing full advan -tage of KEDIT s macro facil i ties and exten sive data manip u la tion capa bil i ties, but isnot required for nor mal use of the a text edi tor, KEDIT works with files that con sist of lines of text, where each lineends with a car riage return and/or a line feed char ac ter. So, there are some types of filesthat KEDIT is not intended for, such as binary files and graphics files. KEDIT is alsonot a full word pro ces sor, and there fore does not auto mat i cally num ber pages or gen er -ate a table of con tents, and does not have sophis ti cated printer sup port or sup port formul ti ple fonts within a doc u ment.

8 Fur ther, KEDIT gen er ally assumes that the files you are edit ing are encoded using the ANSI or OEM char ac ter sets; most text files on Win -dows have his tor i cally used the ANSI char ac ter set. KEDIT does not sup port Unicode,a newer for mat that is begin ning to come into wider useWhile KEDIT can be use ful to almost every Win dows user who needs to work with text files, spe cial fea tures are included in KEDIT for users of IBM s main frame edi torXEDIT. Many of KEDIT s com mands are com pat i ble with cor re spond ing XEDITcom mands, and KEDIT sup ports a pre fix area like XEDIT s.

9 XEDIT users should note, how ever, that not all XEDIT fea tures are avail able in KEDIT , and there are a num ber of dif fer ences between KEDIT and XEDIT. Most of the dif fer ences come about becauseKEDIT tries to take full advan tage of the more flex i ble key board and dis play inter facepro vided by the PC and by of DocumentationThe KEDIT for Win dows doc u men ta tion is divided into two sep a rate books: theKEDIT for Win dows user s Guide and the KEDIT for Win dows Ref er ence Man KEDIT for Win dows user s Guide is the book you re read ing now.

10 This Guide pro -vides an intro duc tion to KEDIT , back ground infor ma tion on most of KEDIT s fea tures, and infor ma tion on KEDIT s menu struc ture, dia log boxes, and key board sec ond book, the KEDIT for Win dows Ref er ence Man ual, con tains details of all ofKEDIT s com mands, options, and macro facil i entire con tents of both the user s Guide and the Ref er ence Man ual can also beaccessed inter ac tively via the KEDIT for Win dows Help sys tem, accessed via the Helpmenu from within user s Guide has 12 chap ters and two appen di ces: You are now read ing Chapter 1, Introduction.