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Common Questions and Answers about The SemWare Editor Junior KEYBOARD ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── QUESTION: How can I get the shifted keypad keys to insert the appropriate numerals in my file? ANSWER: First, you need to run QCONFIG.EXE and make sure that the "CUA- Style Block Marking" option is turned OFF. Then check your QCONFIG.DAT file to make sure that nothing is assigned to the #1 - #9 keys. Burn-in your QCONFIG.DAT file, then when you press #1, the numeral '1' will be entered into your file. QUESTION: I try to use the "*","-", and "+" key on my numeric keypad and it does not seem to work. ANSWER: By default, the Paste, Cut, and Copy commands are assigned to these keys. They are referred to as the "grey*", "grey-", and "grey+" keys. If you want to use these keys at "Face-value", then unassigned them in your keyboard definition file. See the printed manual for a listing of these keys. QUESTION: I have a NorthGate keyboard that has an additional "*" key, but it does not seem to work. ANSWER: This extra "*" key is the same as the "grey*" key. Please see the previous Question and Answer. QUESTION: I cannot get the F11 and F12 keys to work. ANSWER: The F11 and F12 keys are present on "Enhanced Keyboards", also known as the 101-key keyboards. By default, enhanced keyboard testing is turned OFF. Run QConfig.exe, select Advanced options, and answer Yes to "Test for presence of enhanced keyboard (Y/N)? ". Be sure that you Save your changes when you quit QConfig.exe. As long as you have an "Enhanced Keyboard" and also a Rom Bios that recognizes the Enhanced keyboard, you will be able to use these additional keys. For a list of the "Enhanced Keyboard" keys, see the printed manual. QUESTION: My TSR will not pop up over The SemWare Editor Junior. Why? ANSWER: Some TSRs will not pop-up when Enhanced keyboard calls are being made. Run QConfig.exe, select Advanced options, and answer NO to "Test for presence of enhanced keyboard (Y/N)? ". Be sure that you Save your changes when you quit QConfig.exe. This should allow your TSR to pop-up. If you have Enhanced Keyboard testing turned OFF, you will not be able to access commands that you have assigned to the F11, F12, and other enhanced keys. For a list of the Enhanced keyboard keys, see the printed manual. QUESTION: My Tab key does not seem to work right. What is wrong? ANSWER: It is possible that you have ToggleSmartTabs ON. Make sure that ToggleSmartTabs is OFF. Please see the printed manual for a description of the ToggleSmartTabs command. TEXT ENTRY AND MANIPULATION: ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── QUESTION: How can I enter ANY ASCII character in The SemWare Editor Junior? ANSWER: Any ASCII character having a decimal value of 0-255 can be entered into a text file while in the editor using one of the following methods: ASCII 0-255: You can use the ASCII chart provided in the editor. Select Other / Ascii Chart from the pull-down menus. Highlight the character you wish to insert, and press <Enter>. ASCII 1-255: Press and hold the <ALT> key. Now, using the numeric keypad (this is the keypad that is usually located on the right hand side of the keyboard), type the decimal value of the Ascii character that you want. Now release the <ALT> key and you should have the character placed in your text. (If you have a problem entering an ASCII 240, see the discussion in this section.) ASCII 0: To enter the NULL character (Ascii 0) into your text, first use the literal command (our default <CTRL P> ) and then press <CTRL @>. You will get the NULL character placed in your text (it will look like a space). For more information on the Alt numeric keypad or the Literal command see the printed manual. QUESTION: How can I change a lower case character to an Upper case one or vice-versa? ANSWER: The editor has 3 case-changing commands. They are Upper, Lower, and Flip. These commands can be used to force uppercase, lowercase, or togglecase at the cursor position OR on all characters in a marked block (if the cursor is within the marked block). QUESTION: How can I enter page breaks into my text? ANSWER: You can enter a Form-feed character into your text by using the Literal command (our default <CTRL P> ) followed by <CTRL L>. You can also use the Alt-numeric keypad method (described previously). Hold the <ALT> key and type 12 on the numeric keypad, then release the <ALT> key. You can also use the AsciiChart and select the Form-feed character (ASCII 12). QUESTION: I am writing batch files and the editor puts a carriage return/ linefeed on the last line of a file. How can I keep from getting the double DOS prompt when my batch file is done? ANSWER: The editor writes a carriage return/linefeed pair at the end of each line whenever a file is saved. If you do not want the carriage return/linefeed on the last line of a batch file to be "SEEN" by DOS, then enter a Ctrl Z as the last character on the last line. DOS will stop processing the batch file when the ctrl Z is reached so you will not get the double prompt. QUESTION: How do I enter a NULL character into my text? ANSWER: Use the Literal command (our default <CTRL P>) immediately followed by <CTRL @>. This will place a NULL (ASCII 0) character in your text. Please see the discussion of the Literal command in this section. QUESTION: How can I draw boxes in The SemWare Editor Junior? ANSWER: Use the ToggleBoxDraw command (our default <SHIFT F1>). When box drawing mode is ON, a "B" will be present in the StatusLine. You can now use the cursor keys to draw boxes in your text. To turn box drawing OFF, issue the ToggleBoxDraw command again. The "B" will be gone from the StatusLine. You can also select several Box Styles, plus an eraser mode, by using the ToggleBoxType command (our default <ALT F1>). QUESTION: I try to enter an ASCII 240 using the Alt numeric keypad and my system seems to hang. What can I do? ANSWER: There is a "Known" problem with some versions of the Phoenix Bios that occurs when an ASCII 240 is being generated from the numeric keypad and "Enhanced Keyboard" calls are being made. Internally, the bios code enters an infinite loop. To break out of this loop, Press <CTRL BREAK> and you will again have control of your keyboard. *NOTE: <CTRL C> will NOT get you out of the loop, you must use <CTRL BREAK>. If you have enhanced keyboard testing turned OFF, you will not have this problem. As a side note, DOS 4.0 and above also make enhanced keyboard calls and the above discussion applies there as well. QUESTION: How can I change all the Tab characters in a file to spaces? ANSWER: Use the TabsToSpaces command (<Esc><O><X>) FINDING TEXT ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── QUESTION: How do I search for text at the beginning or the end of the line? ANSWER: The editor has two new Find options. They are ^ and $. The ^ Find option will only find the text if it is at the beginning of the line. The $ Find option will find the text if it is at the end of the line. QUESTION: How can I limit a "FIND" or "SEARCH and REPLACE" operation to a specified area? ANSWER: The "L" option was added as a way for the user to limit a search operation to within a marked block area. When prompted for options, just include "L" with the other options. QUESTION: How can I do a Find and place the found item on the center of the screen. ANSWER: Set the "Center Finds" option ON (<Esc><S><C>) CURSOR MOVEMENT ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── QUESTION: When I use the cursor key to move to the right or left, the cursor stays on the same line when I come to the beginning or end of the line. How can I have the cursor move to the start of the next line when I reach the end of the current line OR move to the end of the previous line when I reach the beginning of the current line? ANSWER: Assign the following macro in your QConfig.dat file: cursorleft CursorLeft MacroQuitTrue * if cursor left ok, then we're done CursorUp MacroQuitFalse * else try moving to previous line EndLine * and go to end of it cursorright IsEndLine JTrue down * if already at/past end of line CursorRight MacroQuit * else cursor right and quit down: CursorDown MacroQuitFalse * if not cursor down, quit BegLine * else goto begin of line QUESTION: When I am inserting text on a line, wordwrap does not seem to work. ANSWER: In order for wordwrap to operate, the cursor has to exceed the right margin that has been set. Once the right margin has been exceeded and you type a non-wordset character, the line will wrap. PRINTER ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── QUESTION: How can I enter Printer control codes in The SemWare Editor Junior? ANSWER: Please see the TEXT ENTRY AND MANIPULATION section. You will need to know the ASCII values of the control characters. These values will be mentioned in your printer manual. QUESTION: I print a file that I have in the editor, but the Box drawing characters do not print on my printout. ANSWER: Check your printer manual and make sure that you have the printer set up to utilize the Character Graphics Set. QUESTION: How can I have The SemWare Editor Junior print to LPT2 or Com1? ANSWER: Set the appropriate print device via the QCONFIG program, or set it interactively via the Print pull-down menu. QUESTION: How can I get double spaced lines on my printout? ANSWER: You can use the "print left margin" setting to obtain double and triple spaced text in most cases. If you have your printer set up so that it prints 80 characters on a line, then set the "print left margin" to 80. This will cause the editor to send 80 spaces before printing each line, so effectively get double spaced lines. If you want triple spacing, then make the setting 160. QUESTION: I have the editor sending formfeeds to the printer, but am getting parts of a page AND some blank pages on my printout. ANSWER: Make sure that your text does not have some long lines that are being wrapped by the printer. If your printer wraps at 80 characters on a line, make sure that your file does not have lines longer than 80 characters. CONFIGURATION ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── QUESTION: I make some changes to The SemWare Junior using QConfig.exe and they do not take effect. ANSWER: Make sure that you are using the copy of the editor that you just configured. If you are not in the current directory where your newly configured copy of the editor is, then check your path to see if you are getting a different copy. Be sure to look for batch files as well as EXEs and COMs that share the same primary name; that is, look for Q.exe, Q.com, Q.bat along your path. THE SEMWARE EDITOR JUNIOR COMMANDS ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── QUESTION: When I use the CenterLine command, my text is not centered on the screen. ANSWER: The centerline command uses column 1 and the right margin that you have set as the basis for centering text. If you want the text centered on the screen, assuming that your screen is 80 columns wide, you can set your right margin to 80 and then issue the centerline command. If you do not want to change your right margin, you can use column block marking to mark your left and right hand margins, then issue the centerline command. QUESTION: How do I get the Sort command to work? ANSWER: In order to use the Sort command, you must be in a single, non-zoomed window. You must use the MarkColumn command to mark the range of lines to sort, and the width of the field to sort on as the key. If you use any other type of blocking, the sort command will not work. THE SEMWARE EDITOR JUNIOR COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── QUESTION: How can I run a macro on start-up? ANSWER: The "-Emacroname" or "/Emacroname" command line switch, will execute the first macro in macroname. Be sure to specify a path to macroname if it is not in the current directory. E.G. Q ABC -Ec:\path\mymacro.mac will load file ABC and execute the first macro in c:\path\mymacro.mac. Please note that this switch does not load macroname. If you also want to load macroname, then use the -L or /L option described in this section. QUESTION: How can I pre-load a macro set? ANSWER: The "-Lmacroname" or "/Lmacroname" command line switch, will load macroname. Be sure to specify a path to macroname if it is not in the current directory. E.G. Q ABC -Lc:\path\mymacro.mac will load file ABC and load the macrofile c:\path\mymacro.mac. QUESTION: I used to be able to load a file and then go to a certain line number, but now it does not work. ANSWER: In versions of QEdit prior to version 2.1, going to a specified line on startup was a configuration program option. This has been replaced with a command line switch of the format -nLINE or /nLINE; that is, to load file ABC and immediately go to line 35, type: Q ABC -n35 QUESTION: How can I toggle the 28-line mode ON/OFF in the editor? ANSWER: In the editor, you can turn the 28-lines-per-screen mode on by using the SetVGA28 command. To toggle 28-line mode ON/OFF, you need to use the ToggleVGA28 command. You may wish to assign these commands to keys in your QCONFIG.DAT file to have them available all of the time: F10 ToggleVGA28 ^F10 SetVGA28 QUESTION: How can I have the editor come up in 28/43/50-line mode? ANSWER: Set the appropriate option via the QCONFIG program. See the Colors/Screen section. QUESTION: How do I use an editor command that is not tied to a key? ANSWER: If you would like to have the command available at all times, just assign the command to a key in your keyboard definition file. Once you have modified your keyboard file, be sure to run the QConfig.exe program. Select the Keys option, supply the name of your Keyboard file, then save your changes and quit the program. You may use all the editor commands when creating macros. QUESTION: I can have the editor change and use display lines other than 25 lines, but I would also like to use the editor with more than 80 columns being shown on the screen. Is this possible? ANSWER: Although there is not a command in the editor that can be issued to change the video adapter to use a different number of columns on the screen (due to there not being a "standard call" that will work on all video adapters), there is a very good chance that the editor will be able to recognize and use wider display modes (see note below) if your video adapter includes a utility to allow setting different display modes. You can either change the video display into the desired mode before starting the editor; or, if the editor is already active, you can shell out, change the mode, and return to the editor and begin using the new mode. *Please note* Video display adapters "work" in two different "modes". One is "text mode", and the other is "graphic mode". The editor will only recognize and use "text" mode (mode 3 or 7). If the current "mode" for the video display is a "graphic mode" (a video mode other than 3 or 7), or if the editor "thinks" it is a "graphic mode", the editor will not be able to use it. Consult your video adapter documentation for details on how you can make use of these additional modes. 132-column "text mode" with varying number of lines (depending on the video adapter) are fairly common with many EGA and VGA adapters. If you set this 132-column mode with your video adapter's utility, there is a very good chance that the editor will be able to use it. UltraVision (by Personics Corporation) is a video display adapter utility that allows many different display widths (80, 94, 108, 120, and 132 depending on the adapter) and heights (25, 36, 43, 50, 60, and 63 depending on the adapter) that works well with The SemWare Editor Junior.