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- T v2.00 - A Tiny Editor
-
- Description:
-
- There are times even in today's world of multi-megabyte personal
- computers when a quick, simple and small text editor is of benefit.
- With a .EXE file of less than 9K bytes T is designed to fit that role.
- For the DOS user trying to cram more and more into 640K the advantages
- of small size are obvious, for the OS/2 user the speed and ability to
- run when even Presentation Manager is unavailable may prove just as
- useful.
-
- This document gives a very brief introduction to the Tiny Editor.
- Refer to the full documentation in T.DOC for all the details of the
- editor's command and keyboard functions. T.DOC also describes how T
- may be customized to suit individual preferences for things like
- screen colors and keyboard layouts.
-
-
- Installation:
-
- The only file required to use T is the single executable: T.EXE for
- DOS or T2.EXE for OS/2. This should be placed in the current
- directory or in a subdirectory listed in the PATH.
-
- The help file THELP.HLP gives a summary of the editor's features. It
- may be useful to have this available the first few times it is used.
- Pressing the F1 help key will attempt to load and show this help file.
-
-
- Simple Editing:
-
- To start the editor just enter the command T from a DOS prompt or T2
- from an OS/2 prompt. This command can be followed by any number of
- filenames which will be loaded ready for editing. If no filenames are
- given a new empty file will be created.
-
- The cursor starts out on the editor's command line (the third line up
- from the bottom). Any valid T command may be entered on the command
- line and is executed when the Enter key is pressed. Some valid
- commands include:
-
- EDIT - To load a new file into the editor.
- FILE - To write the currently displayed file back to disk.
- PRINT - To print the currently displayed file.
- DOS - To run a DOS or OS/2 command.
-
- The cursor can be moved between the command line and the file's data
- area by pressing the Esc key. In the data area it can be moved
- anywhere between the "Top Of File" and "Bottom Of File" markers. At
- any point new text can be entered or the existing text changed. To
- add a new line press Ctrl-Enter and to delete a line press
- Ctrl-Backspace.
-
- One or more lines can be marked by pressing Alt-L on the first and
- last lines of the block to be marked. Marked lines can be moved by
- pressing Alt-M, copied with Alt-C or deleted with Alt-D.
-
- The current line can be repeated with Alt-R, split at the cursor
- position with Alt-S and joined with the following line with Alt-J.
-
- If more than one file is being edited at once the "ring" of files can
- be cycled round by pressing F10 or F11. Editing several files at once
- is particularly useful in conjunction with marked lines as lines from
- one file can be moved or copied into a different file.
-
- When all the required changes have been made the file can be written
- back to disk by pressing F2 and then F3 to quit. Alternatively F4
- will perform both these actions in one go. If you decide to abandon
- all the changes made just press F3 and answer the question "Throw away
- changes?" with a "y".
-
- To search for a particular piece of text, switch onto the command line
- and enter the command:
-
- /text
-
- T will search from the current cursor position forward to find the
- next occurrence of the "text". Normally T requires an exact-case
- match (i.e. it would not find TEXT or even Text); to force any
- any-case match add a "c" option to the command like this: /text/c
-
- To do a search and replace, again switch onto the command line and
- this time use the command:
-
- c/this/that
-
- This will find the next occurrence of "this" and ask a question:
- "Yes/No/Go/Last/Quit?". Respond with a Y, N, G, L or Q as required:
-
- Yes - to change "this" to "that" and search for the next "this".
- No - to not make the change, but continue the search for the
- next "this".
- Go - to make this change and all subsequent changes up to the
- end of the file.
- Last - to make this change and to stop searching.
- Quit - to not make this change and to stop searching.
-
- To make all the changes straightaway, without prompting add the "*"
- option to the change command like so: c/this/that/*
-
-
- Customization:
-
- T may be customized to change the colors, keyboard assignments and
- one or two other settings. Take a look at the TKEYS.DEF file which
- describes the standard configuration. If you want to alter it, make a
- copy of TKEYS.DEF and edit it to reflect your required changes. Then
- run the TKEY.EXE customizer program to update the editor, like this:
-
- TKEY TKEYS.DEF T.EXE
-
-
- Support:
-
- Support is provided to developers via CompuServe. CompuServe users
- should enter 'GO OS2DF2'. If you are not a member of CompuServe,
- please call 1-800-524-3388 and ask for representative #239 for a free
- introductory membership.