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Features common to all VEDIT Family editors:

*   Edit ANY text, data or binary file up 2 Gigabytes (2000 Megabytes) in
    size.  Supports unlimited line lengths.  Edit database, mainframe,
    Postscript, plotter, executable .EXE and other non-standard files.
    VEDIT is the only editor that lets you edit really large files, like the
    500 megabyte file you are putting onto CD-ROM.

*   Multi-mode editing.  File editing modes support DOS, UNIX and Mac text
    files, plus a mode for editing any data or binary file. (VEDIT and VEDIT
    PLUS also support variable-length and fixed-length-record data files.)

*   Hyper-browse mode.  Files may be opened for editing or just for browsing
    to prevent accidental changes.  Hyper-browse mode allows instant access
    to any part of a huge file and super-fast searching including CD-ROM
    files.

*   CUA-like pull-down menu system.  Easy access to most editing functions.
    Editing functions can also be quickly accessed with "hot keys" which
    bypass the menu system - the menu system does not slow down proficient
    users.  Current "hot keys" are displayed in the menus.

*   Intuitive keyboard layout. The "normal" keyboard is very similar to that
    used by DOS 5.0's "EDIT", Microsoft's "PWB" and Borland's "IDE".
    Alternatively, a very compatible WordStar, Word Perfect or Brief layout
    may be chosen.  A different keyboard layout can be loaded or modified at
    any time.

*   Unlimited keystroke macros.  Any combination of keystrokes can be
    assigned to a single key.  Allows single key access to menu functions and
    creation of custom editing functions.  Record mode learns new keystroke
    macros while you edit.  Keystroke macros may be built into VEDIT, saved
    to and loaded from disk.

*   Context sensitive help.  Pressing the help key gives you precisely the
    information you need at the moment.  The help text is user changeable and
    expandable.  Add your own help prompts and messages.

*   Integrated mouse support.  You can quickly navigate and select from the
    menu system, access help, scroll to other parts of the file, highlight,
    copy/move blocks and switch between windows with a mouse.

*   Optional scroll bars show your relative position in the file and simplify
    mouse support.  When scroll bars are disabled, the mouse can still access
    "stealth" scroll bars.

*   "Point and shoot" file selection.  Use the cursor keys or mouse to
    highlight the desired file or use incremental searching.  Easily change
    drive, directory and the file selection "filter".

*   Auto-save of files.  VEDIT can automatically save all modified files
    after a configurable number of minutes.  Helps prevent loosing your work
    due to power failures, etc.

*   Multi-level Undo.  Up to 1000 of the most recent edit changes can be
    reversed keystroke by keystroke or line by line.  Deleted text can be
    re-inserted in its original position or anywhere else.

*   Flexible block operations.  Process blocks of text on a character, line,
    file, or column basis.  Blocks may be moved or copied directly or saved
    in a scratchpad buffer.  Search/replace within blocks.  Convert blocks
    to upper case, lower case or switch case.

*   Automatic indenting simplifies editing of structured programs; block
    indent/undent permits quick restructuring.  Check for proper nesting of
    parentheses, e.g.~"{" and "}", aids C programming.

*   Execute single DOS commands (DIR, compilers, V-SPELL, etc.) or enter DOS
    and return later.  With V-SWAP loaded, you can have more memory available
    when you enter DOS from within VEDIT than before you ran VEDIT!

*   Powerful search and replace.  Supports sophisticated pattern matching,
    reverse searching, selective and global replace.  Recall and editing of
    search/replace strings and most other prompts.

*   Flexible printing with variable margins and page size.  Print a block of
    text or the entire file with single, double or triple spacing.  You can
    also "print" to a file.

*   ASCII table.  Pop up the ASCII table or insert any desired control,
    printer or graphic character into the text.  IBM PC box drawing
    characters are easily accessed.

*   Horizontal scrolling for editing long lines, e.g. spreadsheets and
    data files.  Optionally, long lines can be wrapped onto multiple screen
    lines so that you can see the entire line at once.

*   Fully adjustable tab positions.  The <Tab> key can enter a tab character
    or, optionally, spaces to the next tab position.

*   Word processing.  Word wrap, paragraph formatting between adjustable
    margins, optional justification, printing.  (Does NOT enter any "special"
    control character into the text.)  Can read/write WordStar compatible
    files.

*   Word Processor emulation.  VEDIT can closely emulate other editors and
    word processors.  Contains options for emulating common cursor positioning
    modes, other block operations, various styles of searching, functions
    performed by the <Tab>, <Backspace> and <Enter> keys, and much more.

*   Speed.  Completely written in assembly language the VEDIT Family editors
    offer stunning speed.  (10 to 100 times faster than the competition on
    large files where speed really counts.)

*   Small size.  VEDIT Jr. is only 65K in size and VEDIT and VEDIT PLUS are
    only 85K.  There are no overlays - VEDIT.EXE is all you need.  (The
    on-line help files are optional.)

*   Totally configurable.  The keyboard layout is completely configurable -
    assign any key to any function.  Any desired number of keystroke macros
    can be built in.  Default settings of all switches and parameters, screen
    colors can be configured.  Configurable tab-fill and "newline" display
    characters.  Selectable hardware/software cursor, cursor blink rate (or
    no blink) and much more.

*   All configuration changes can be saved directly in the VEDIT.EXE file
    (DOS only) or to easily edited VEDIT.KEY and VEDIT.CFG config files.

*   Easy installation.  The automated installation takes only a few minutes.
    It places VEDIT, its help file(s) and macro files into a selected
    directory, e.g. "C:\VEDIT".

    You can also copy VEDIT.EXE to a floppy disk and immediately run it on
    another computer - no directories to create, no environmental variables
    to fiddle with.

*   The VEDIT Family editors are available for the PCDOS/MSDOS, XENIX/UNIX,
    QNX, FlexOS, and IBM 4680 operating systems.

*   V-SPELL, an exceptionally fast and flexible spelling corrector is
    available and can be run with a single keystroke.  A fully functional
    demo disk of V-SPELL is also available.

VEDIT has these additional features:

*   Multiple file editing.  Simultaneously edit two, three, four or more
    files (up to 37), each up to 2 Gigabytes (2000 Megabytes) in size.
    Efficiently edits huge text, data and binary files.

*   Flexible windowing.  Display each file you are editing in its own variable
    sized window or toggle between files using just one window.  Set the color
    for each window.  Different parts of one file can be displayed in separate
    windows.  Windows can be zoomed to full screen and de-zoomed.

*   Multi-mode display.  Each window can display in five different ASCII
    modes, in hexadecimal or in EBCDIC.  Or split the screen to view any file
    in multiple modes at once.

*   Regular expressions for even more powerful search and replace operations.

*   36 text registers may be used as scratch-pad buffers for extensive "cut
    and paste" operations.  Blocks can be copied from one file to another.

*   All "macros" written in the VEDIT PLUS programming language can be run
    by VEDIT.  This includes the supplied Compiler Support, a simple print
    formatter, split-screen file comparison macro, sort macro and a "grep-
    like" multiple file processing macro.

*   Integrated, menu-driven Compiler Support.  Popular compilers, assemblers,
    linkers, debuggers and Make programs can be run from within VEDIT.  If any
    compilations errors are reported, it automatically loads the correct
    source file and positions the cursor on the error.  You can then make
    corrections and press a key to move to the next error, or recompile.

*   The Compiler Support automatically adjusts to the needs of different
    programs in different directories, e.g. one program may be compiled as
    "large model" while another is compiled as "small model".  Compiler and
    other options can also be changed easily via menus.  Includes on-line help
    for compiler options.

*   The innovative V-SWAP memory manager does much more than swap VEDIT out of
    memory when running large compilers, debuggers or otherwise shelling out
    to DOS.  V-SWAP can even swap TSRs such as pop-up utilities and network
    drivers out of memory.

    For example, before you enter VEDIT you might have 500K of available
    memory; after shelling out to DOS from within VEDIT you might now have
    580K of available memory!

    V-SWAP solves the common memory-crunch problems of large compilers and
    debuggers once and for all.

*   The Compiler Support works with Make programs and "makefiles" to further
    automate program development.  It even tracks compilation errors reported
    by different compilers run within one Make script.  Requires no changes
    to your existing "makefiles".

*   The following Make programs are supported:

    Microsoft NMAKE

    Borland MAKE

    Avocet MAKE

    Other UNIX style Make programs will also work with the Compile Support.

*   VEDIT and VEDIT PLUS support these and other compilers:

    Microsoft - C, Quick C, Basic, Fortran, Cobol, MASM Assembler
    Borland - C++, Turbo C, Turbo Assembler, Turbo Pascal,
    2500 A.D. - Most Cross-compilers and Cross-assemblers
    Acucobol - Cobol
    Avocet - All Compilers, Assemblers and Cross-compilers
    Lahey - Fortran 77, Personal Fortran 77
    Metaware - High C
    Micro Focus - Cobol
    Microrim - Rbase Compiler
    Nantucket - Clipper Compiler
    Phoenix - PASM Assembler
    Realia - Cobol
    SVC - Fortran
    Watcom - C Compiler
    Zortech - C++

VEDIT PLUS adds a powerful, interactive macro programming language.

*   Macro language is accessed via "Command Mode" - just a keystroke away.
    Any command line entered is immediately executed - there is no tedious
    compiling.  Permits creating and running macros "off the cuff".

*   Commands can be combined to create powerful "macros" which save time by
    automating complex editing operations.  Macros can be saved to disk and
    loaded from disk.  Macros can be assigned to function keys or can be
    loaded into any of the 36 "text registers"; macros can then be revised
    and/or run directly from the text register.

*   Source level debugging.  Complex macros can be debugged by setting
    breakpoints and tracing.  By running the Command Mode in its own window
    the effect of each command (typed in or traced) can be observed on the
    file(s) in the remaining window(s).

*   On-line calculator.  Any algebraic expression entered on the command line
    is immediately calculated and displayed.

*   Complete numerical capability with 24 bit resolution (+/- 8,388,607).
    100 "variables", expression evaluation with numerical, logical and
    relational functions.

*   Auto-execution.  A file containing "macro" commands can be specified for
    automatic execution when VEDIT PLUS is invoked.

*   Program flow control with looping, "REPEAT UNTIL", "IF THEN", "IF THEN
    ELSE", "CASE" and conditional "JUMP".  Numeric, character and string
    testing.

*   36 text registers may hold filenames, search strings, blocks of text or
    entire files.  They can be directly edited.  Single command comparison of
    two files or two text registers.

*   Extensive file handling.  Multiple file editing.  Files can be split and
    merged.  Blocks of text can be copied between files.  Access/log-into any
    drive and sub-directory.  Easy recovery from running out of disk space -
    delete files or insert another disk.

*   Interactive input and output.  Messages and prompts can be displayed on
    the screen.  Input can be in the form of single characters, character
    strings, numbers, or numerical expressions.

*   Screen control (Forms entry).  Address, write and erase the screen (or
    individual windows) - write application programs (macros) with windows,
    menu prompts and forms entry.

*   Flexible window control.  Creating, deleting, size, position and color of
    windows is fully programmable.

*   Hardware access.  Macros can peek/poke memory and I/O ports, access system
    and BIOS functions, even call assembly language programs.
The VEDIT editors have important network support features:

*   File locking.  The files being edited by one user cannot be modified by
    another user.

*   Network printers are supported.  Print jobs are released without having
    to exit VEDIT.  Option whether VEDIT includes a "page eject" at the end
    of each print job.

*   Flexible configuration.  Each user on the network can have a separate
    executable VEDIT.EXE file or all users can share one VEDIT.EXE file.  In
    case of one shared VEDIT.EXE file, each user can then have a configuration
    file which configures VEDIT to their personal preferences upon startup.

*   (VEDIT and VEDIT PLUS only)  The V-SWAP program can temporarily swap
    network drivers out of memory, when necessary, for running large compilers
    and debuggers.

    Many users find that they cannot run their compilers when their network
    drivers are installed in memory.  VEDIT and V-SWAP solve this common
    problem.

Five ready to use programs or "macros" are supplied with VEDIT and VEDIT PLUS.
These macros can automatically execute when the editor is invoked.  This
allows someone without any knowledge of VEDIT to use these or custom macros.

*   Integrated Compiler Support.  This was described above.

*   WILDFILE macro.  This very useful macro lets you perform a search, search
    and replace, or run another macro on an entire group of files.  The group
    of files may be specified using the wildcards "?" and "*".  (WILDFILE
    performs a superset of the UNIX "grep" command.)

*   File comparison macro.  Displays the differences between two files on the
    screen and lets you merge/edit them in any way desired.  After displaying
    a difference the macro can re-align the files and then continue looking
    for further differences.  For example, after finding where revisions were
    made, you can copy blocks of text from one file to the other.

*   Mailing list sort macro.  Sorts a typical list of mailing addresses into
    alphabetical order.

*   Print formatting macro.  This extends VEDIT and VEDIT PLUS's printing
    capabilities by printing files with a header and page number on each page.
    Containing only a dozen commands, it also serves as a simple example of a
    useful macro.  It can be readily extended for fancier print formatting.

VEDIT and VEDIT PLUS come with two libraries of additional macros.  The
"Command Macros" can be loaded from disk and executed at any time.  The
"Keystroke Macros" can be built into the editor and assigned to a "hot key".
These libraries are constantly being expanded.

*   Command Macro library.  Includes box drawing, splitting/merging very
    large files, converting tabs to spaces.

*   Keystroke Macro library.  Includes selecting window color from a color
    chart, duplicating characters and lines, moving the cursor by sentence,
    listing lines containing a text string, transposing characters, counting
    words and much more.

Since all macros are supplied in "source code", they also serve as elaborate
examples of VEDIT PLUS macro programming.  And you can modify them to suit
your personal needs.