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T A Y L O R E D I T O R
Version 1.1
(C) Copyright 1992
Stephen Balbach
Chapter 1
Introduction
Taylor Editor is an ASCII text editor similar in all respects to
Microsoft editor included with MS-DOS 5.0. I wrote Taylor Editor
with the goal of duplicating Microsoft Editor. So why use Taylor
Editor? It's FREE!! Absolutely no commitment or obligation is
required to use Taylor Editor. You may ask, is not Microsoft
Editor for all purposes free as well? It came with my system, it
came with MS-DOS, why change?
Taylor Editor offers you the opportunity to take part in the
fight against the ever growing menace known as the Software
Industry. Gone are the days when information among software
developers flowed freely in the name of progress. Instead these
are times of secrecy, corporate wars of 'look-and-feel' and the
retardation of knowledge among programmers in the name of
Copyright. The net effect has been the slow down of advancement
and the eventual stagnation of the art.
By using this product you boycott the Commercial Software
Industry trend towards priority software and fight for your
FREEDOM to choose which information or information tool you wish
to use. I ask for no money, only that someone, somewhere can
find a use for my product and contribute to society as well.
I am distributing this software under the WARRENTY and COPYRIGHT
agreements as set forth by the GNU project. In general, I can
not be held liable for the program and Taylor Editor is (C)
Copyright 1992 Stephen Balbach. You may distrubute freely but
only under the same agreement that you have recieved a copy of
this program. A full copy of the WARRANTY and COPYRIGHT
agreement that Taylor Editor is distributed under if it is not
with this package can be obtained from any GNU product or the GNU
in MA.
1. COMMANDS
F10 - Main Menu
F2 - Cursor Position
Pressing F2 will display the current cursor position.
ALT+X - Save and Exit
[Quit menu]
Save current file and exit. Will prompt for filename
if none already. This is much faster and smoother
then Microsoft Editor which requires three to four key
strokes.
ALT+M - Mark Text (line mode)
ALT+C - Mark Text (column mode)
[Edit menu]
Turn text marking on and off. See following commands
for use of text marking.
GREYPLUS - Copy Marked Text to Buffer
[Edit menu]
All marked text will be copied to the text buffer.
This is the first step to copying a block of text. See
INS below.
GREYMINUS - Cut Marked Text to Buffer
[Edit menu]
All marked text will be cut (moved) to the text
buffer. This is the first step to moving a block of
text.
INS - Paste Text from Buffer to Screen
[Edit menu]
Text in the text buffer will be Pasted at the current
cursor position.
DEL - Delete Marked Text
[Edit menu]
All marked text will be deleted.
ALT+S - Search
[Search menu]
Search for given string from Cursor position forward.
Repeat search by pressing ALT+S again.
ALT+R - Search and Replace
[Search menu]
Search and Replace given string throughout document.
You are prompted for each replacement.
CNTRL+Y - Delete Line
Delete current line.
2. NOTES
This version supports plain ASCII text files up to 64K.
Taylor Editor was written in Microsoft C 5.1
This is version 1.0 so there are no bugs. Period. :)
Future enhancements if I get any response include a hook to
external programs so you can add in spell checkers, option to
change colors, pick-list of available files, more editor
commands.
Source code is available for the cost of getting it to you. You
will need C-Scape windowing library to recompile, however.
Stephen Balbach
11307 Tooks Way
Columbia, MD 21044