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╓──────────────────────────────────╖
║ pE - The "perfect" Editor (tm) ║█▌
║ ║█▌
║ by ║█▌
║ ║█▌
║ Just Excellent Software, Inc. ║█▌
║ All Rights Reserved ║█▌
╙──────────────────────────────────╜█▌
F1 - Help ████████████████████████████████████▌
F2 - Jumps to next Copyright (c) 1990 - 1994 by
Window Just Excellent Software, Inc
220 High View Lane
Alt X to Exit Media, PA 19063
Alt Z Zooms Window
pE - Quick Start
────────────────
This file may be all you need to know to use pE. There is
more detail in pehelp.exe. Registration provides a printed
manual, quick reference card and telephone support. It also
provides the latest version of pE free of registration
inducements. We hope you enjoy pE enough to use it and therefore
register. If you continue to use it after 30 days, you are
REQUIRED to register.
Print using 60 lines per page, 0 top and 0 bottom margin
(Laser), or 66 lines per page and 3 top and 3 bottom margin.
┌──────────────┐
│1. Starting pE│
└──────────────┘
pE can be started simply by typing 'pe'. There are many command
line switches available for you to customize pE. These are all
explained in the printed user manaul you receive when you
register.
- Open a single file--> pe filename
if filename is non-existant, it is opened as a new file
- Open a few files----> pe file1,file2,file3
- Open a list of files> pe @list
where list contains filenames with paths)
- Open and position---> pe filename nnn [nnn is linenumber]
- Open file chooser---> pe *
the '*' means all files, you can also say things like
*.txt (show only .txt files)
\path\sub\sub\*.* (show all files in \path\sub\sub
dep*.* (show only files whose names start with 'dep')
┌──────────────┐
│2. Quitting pE│
└──────────────┘
The very easiest thing to do is type Alt-X (exit). If you've
made a change to the file, pE will ask if you wish to save it.
If you just want to leave without saving anything, and you're
in a big rush, type ^Q_L (that's Ctrl + Q, then L, case
unimportant).
┌─────────────────────┐
│3. Accessing the Menu│
└─────────────────────┘
Alt+F,E,S,W,O,H, or just Alt will call attention to the menu bar.
If the menu bar is visible, you may also click left with the
mouse. If invisible, position the mouse on the top row of the
screen and press the right button; the menu will appear.
To "pull down" a specific menu press enter on the menu that's
highlighted or downarrow or press the first letter of the menu you
wish to "pull down".
Pressing the highlighted letter will execute the command specified
in the menu.
Alt H(elp) is pE's help file. Some 40 pages of help organized by
topic. You can print a single page or the whole document from
within help.
┌──────────────────────┐
│4. Saving Edited Files│
└──────────────────────┘
From the Menu choose F(ile) Save or F(ile) Save A(s) or;
F3 will save the file to the current name without a prompt, like
F(ile) Save and;
F4 will save the file and provide you an opportunity to change
the name, like F(ile) Save As.
Alt-Q (Quick exit and save) Saves all files modified and exits.
Each of these commands will first backup the original file to
the "Backup Path" (defaults to \backup).
┌───────────────┐
│5. Command Menu│
└───────────────┘
Pressing Shift F1 calls up the command menu. The command menu is
a listing of all of pE's commands, arranged alphabetically, with
their current key assignment. Selecting a command and pressing
enter will execute the command directly from the menu. You may
also left click with the mouse. ^S while the command menu is up
will rearange the menu into key sequence.
┌────────────────┐
│6. Window Basics│
└────────────────┘
pE's windows can be tiled, cascaded, sized, moved, stacked and
colored differently. Windows can be bordered, or not. If you
use a mouse, it is recommended that you leave the borders on.
To size a window:
- with the mouse, click left on the size 'gadget' in the
lower right hand corner of the window border. Holding the
mouse button down, move the mouse up and to the left.
- letting go of the mouse button ends the size.
- with the keyboard, press Alt-Home. Use the arrow keys to
move the bottom and right borders. Pressing ESC ends the
size.
To move a window:
- with the mouse, click left on the window title, enclosed
in square brackets in the center of the top border.
Holding the mouse button down, move the mouse and the
window will move along as well. Note that the window can
only move within the confines of the screen, so it must be
smaller than the full screen to move. Leaving go of the
mouse ends the move.
- with the keyboard, press Alt-End. Use the arrow keys to
move. As with Size, ESC ends the move.
To close a window:
- with the mouse, click left on the 'close gadget', the
symbol '■' in the upper left hand corner of the window
border.
- with the keyboard, press Alt-K.
To stack windows:
- Alt W(indow) + S(tack)
To unstack windows:
- Alt W(indow) + C(a)scade or T(ile)
To jump to the next, prev window F2 and Shift F2.
┌────────────────┐
│7. Saving Memory│
└────────────────┘
When pE opens a Window, it saves the background of the window in
memory. The bigger the window, the more memory. The more
memory taken by windows, the less that is available for text.
To increase the size of the file capable of being edited;
1. Use few windows and keep the ones you're not using very
small. This is easy to do with the minimize window, zoom
and other commands available to arrange and control the
size and spacing of windows.
2. Editing using 25 lines/screen uses less memory than
editing with 50 lines/screen.
┌─────────────────────────────┐
│8. Marking, Cutting & Pasting│
└─────────────────────────────┘
One of the joys of using a computer to manipulate text, is the
ability to freely move text around easily. pE makes this easier
than any other product you've tried! Either the mouse or the
keyboard can be used.
First some definitions:
- Marking means to select an area of text. Marked areas are
called 'blocks'.
- Cutting means to move the selected text to the 'Scrap'
Some programs refer to it as a 'Clipboard'. In any event
it is simply a holding place (invisible) to hold selected,
moved text.
- Pasting means to move text from the 'Scrap' back into the
editing window. It is exactly the opposite of cutting.
Now the keys used;
- Grey- to Cut. 'Grey' refers to the numeric keypad keys.
- Grey+ to Paste.
If nothing is marked, pressing cut will cut the current line
to the scrap. Pressing paste will copy it back.
Pasting can be done over and over. Until the next 'cut' the
contents of the 'Scrap' remains the same after a paste.
There are three kinds of blocks, or selections;
1. Alt-L, Lines - whole lines are marked
2. Alt-B, Rectangular Areas - also known as column blocks
3. ^K-K, Stream blocks - from any character to any character.
Also shift+grey cursor keys on 101 key keyboards.
To end any mark press the same key you started with.
To unmark, Alt-U or click twice with the mouse in the same
spot, i.e., without moving.
If you are working on line oriented material, such as
programs, tables, or line drawings, you probably want to use
Alt-L for lines.
If you want to shift a columnar block of text or a drawing
around, then you want to use Alt-B.
If you want to delete a sentence that spans several lines,
and perhaps move it elsewhere, then use ^K-K; or with the
mouse, hold the Ctrl key down as you drag.
Note that the documentation tells you how to set up pE to
use whatever keys you are familiar with. See KEY.TXT
Marking with the MOUSE
Pressing and holding down the left mouse button while moving
the mouse will mark lines (just as Alt-L).
Pressing and holding down the right mouse button while
moving the mouse will mark a rectangular area of the screen,
(just as Alt-B).
Pressing and holding down the left mouse button AND the Ctrl
key will mark a 'stream' (just as ^K-K)
Releasing the mouse button depressed, ends the mark.
Pasting with the MOUSE
You can paste the contents of the 'Scrap' anywhere by
positioning with the mouse and clicking first the left, then
the right buttons (without moving) in the spot you wish to
paste in. This takes a little practise, but gets easier.
Ins/Replace
When you cut and paste columnar (rectangular) blocks, you
must be aware that a different effect will result depending
upon which mode you are in, Insert or Replace (overtype).
In Insert mode, when you cut a rectangular block, the area
to the right of the block will shift left to fill in the
vacated area of the cut. In Replace mode, the area cut is
replaced immediately with blanks, so the appearance is to
leave a 'hole' where the text was.
Similarly, when you paste a rectangular block in Insert
mode it will 'push' all the text right as it inserts itself
line for line. In Replace mode it will OVERWRITE or OVERLAY
any text occupied by the area it is being pasted into.
You must try this in each mode to become facile.
The easiest way to indent or outdent a section of lines
Mark with Alt-L, and press TAB to indent each line exactly
one tab stop, or Shift Tab to outdent each line.
This can be done to a whole file at once to adjust a left
margin.
Note that tab stops can be adjusted to be wherever you want.
┌────────────────────────┐
│9. Drawing Boxes & Lines│
└────────────────────────┘
Now that you know all about marking, drawing a box is very easy.
Mark a rectangular block with Alt-B, or use the mouse. See
above. Then press Alt-1 through Alt-9 for 9 different Box
styles. That's all there is.
If you want to see all nine box styles at once, press Alt-G.
You can also draw a box by clicking on the box style you want in
this display after marking the block.
Alt-G is a 'toggle'. Pressing it again turns graphic key
mapping off.
A line is simply a box having only one dimension. So mark
either a single column or a single row and press Alt-1 for a
single line, Alt-2 for a double line, etc...
┌───────────────┐
│10. DRAG & DROP│
└───────────────┘
One of pE's unique features is its ability to move text around
on the screen with mouse or keyboard.
Mark a rectangular block (Alt-B) and with the mouse click and
hold down the left button while the mouse is anywhere in the
highlited area. The block will change color and begin to move
as you move the mouse. Pressing F7 will 'break' the box loose
and allow you to use the cursor keys to shift it around. Press
the Paste key (Grey+) to 'Drop' the Box. Letting go of the
mouse button will also end the Drag & Drop.
Of course, you can do the same thing with cut and paste (or
move, which combines a cut and a paste), but this is much more
fun and for small movements, much more useful. Try it!
Please note that being in Insert or Replace mode will affect the
text around the block differently.
┌──────────────────────┐
│11. Searching for Text│
└──────────────────────┘
With pE you can search for text whether you've loaded the file
into pE or not! Lets start by showing you the search and
replace Dialog Box. You can see it in action by pressing
Alt-F. Pressing ESC will exit the dialog with no action, so
if you want, press #F5 (shift F5) now. In any event this is
what it looks like:
╔══[ <Search/Replace> ]════════════════════════╗
║Search For ║
║██████████████████████████████████████████████║
║──────────────────────────────────────────────║
║Replace With ║
║██████████████████████████████████████████████║
║──────────────────────────────────────────────║
║ [ ] Backward [ ] Case Sensitive ║
║ [ ] Find All [ ] Pattern (Reg Exp) ║
║ [ ] All Windows [ ] Load all Matches ║
║ [ ] Search SubDirs Mask:*.* ║
║──────────────────────────────────────────────║
║ < OK > < Cancel > ║
║ ║
╚═════════ Ctrl+Enter to Start Search ═════════╝
- if you're doing a search, type in what to look for
in the area underneath the "Search For".
- then check any buttons you want by using the space bar,
the letter x, the highlited letter, or the mouse to set
a backward search (Backward), search for all occurrences
in one file (Find All), in All Windows (All Windows),
Make the search Case Sensitive (must match upper and
lower case exactly), and the search string is a Regular
Expression (Pattern). You will need to review regular
expressions in the "REGEXP.TXT" file if you are not
familiar with search patterns.
- you move around the dialog box by using the arrow keys,
the tab, or the enter. Pressing the first letter of any
button will also move you to that button and check it on
or off depending on what it was. Of course the mouse
can be used to navigate as well.
- pressing ESC (escape) cancels any entry and returns to
the editing screen. Clicking the Cancel button with the
mouse or pressing Enter when the Cancel Button highlited
will have the same effect.
- Pressing the OK button with the mouse, or Enter when OK
is highlited will begin the search or replace.
- The title of the dialog box will indicate whether or not
you are beginning a search or replace.
- If you selected (Found List), the dialog box automatically
comes up with
[x] Find All
checked, otherwise its the same as a Find. Setting
'Find All' on means you want a list of ALL occurrences
of the search string, either in the current window, all
windows of even all files in this directory, or all
files in this directory and all subdirectories; see
'Calling Find from Chooser', below.
- If you press #F6 (Replace), instead of 'Find All', the
second button look like
[ ] Replace All
checking this button will replace all occurrences of
string 1 with string 2. Further if [x] All Windows is
checked, all occurrences EVERYWHERE will be changed.
Please use caution! Enter a value in the 'Replace
With' area. Please note that a NULL (empty) 'Replace
With' is a VALID replacement. You may be trying to
delete part of every string. If you leave the 'Replace
With' area empty, pE will ask for a confirmation of your
intent.
- NOTE: If you mark an area, do a replace all and don't
like the result, alt-0 (zero) undoes the replace. This
will only work in a single window and only as long as
you have memory.
- You begin the Search or Replace with Ctrl+Enter
anytime after you have entered the necessary information.
- NOTE: Any macros which did a DefineFind in previous
versions of pE, need to be rewritten to accommodate the
Ctrl-Enter exit rather than just Enter.
- [x] Find All builds a found list by writing to a file
named ~FND.$$$. When the search finishes, ~FND.$$$ is
read into a pE window and DELETED (if completely read).
Files starting with the character '~' and having
extensions of '.$$$' are deleted when read by pE. This
means that you must do a save to a different name if you
wish to keep these files. The directory used for
~FND.PED is the one pointed to by the setting of the TMP
environment variable. If TMP doesn't point anywhere,
the current directory is used. This is important to
know only because if ~FND.$$$ is NOT completely read in,
it is NOT deleted and you may want to delete it if TMP
is on permanent media.
- A search may be interrupted at any time by pressing ESC
(escape).
┌──────────────┐
│13. Backing Up│
└──────────────┘
When pE loads a file into a window, the original file remains on
your hard drive, untouched. When you have completed editing the
copy in memory, Saving writes the copy in memory out to your
hard drive. If you save to the same name, pE moves the original
version (still untouched) to a "backup" directory. The options
menu provides an option for you to specify the backup directory.
The default is to use a directory off the root of the "current"
hard drive. This means that each hard drive you run pE on, will
eventually have a \backup. If this is acceptable, do nothing.
You should periodically clean out \backup as you can accumulate
a considerable amount of backed up files.
If you save twice, the original backup will be overwritten with
the newly created file. This means if a file must be retained
in its original version, you should NOT save to the same name.
When the backup directory is on the same drive, pE can just move
a directory entry to backup up the file, (very fast). If you
make the backup directory be a different drive, then the file
must be copied in its entirety to be backed up. (slower).
┌────────────┐
│14. Printing│
└────────────┘
pE has a completely integrated print facility. With it you can:
- create headers and footers so that all your output pages
have the same heading and footing
- print every line with a line number
- set left, right, top and bottom margins
- instruct pE to wrap long lines to a particular column
- direct output to a file/window to preview the printed image
- direct output to LPT1 or 2
- single or more space your output
- set the starting page number
- print the whole file or any range of marked lines.
To print, press Alt-P.
┌───────────────────┐
│15. Word Processing│
└───────────────────┘
pE is a text processor with many Word Processing features. It
has the ability to automatically reformat your text as you
type, just as a word processor does. To make pE behave in
this manner, press Ctrl-F6. A 'W' will appear on the bottom
line. In Word mode, paragraphs are continuously reformatted
as you type. The alignment occurs based on the settings of
'Paragraph Format' in the options menu. The available
settings include:
- left margin
- right margin
- indent/outdent
- justification (left, justified, or unjustified)
You can also cause word wrap to occur in Text Mode by setting
the maximum line length to a value where you would like word
wrap to occur. This entire file was produced in with the line
length set to 72. No other commands were necessary. You can
reformat a paragraph manually by pressing Alt-A, Align
Paragraph.
Paragraph Alignment can be undone (but only the last alignment)
with a Ctrl-F10.
Text can be centered by pressing Ctrl A-C, left flushed by
pressing Ctrl A-L, and right flushed by pressing Ctrl A-R.
Marking a block and then pressing one of the above, will use the
boundaries of the block as the margins.
See pehelp.exe for further detail. Also see latest.txt for recent
changes to pE.