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Hats off to PC Magazine for a very fine editor. I have made several changes
that I think make it even better. For those unfamiliar with TED, I have
included the original documentation untouched. My changes are described
here.
The original ted 1.0 did not set the colors. Rather, it used the
default system colors. This made for some wierd inverse-video
colors when calling TED from DF or other shell programs. This was
fixed in TED 1.1, using white-on-black for normal text, and reverse
video for marked text and the function key line. TED 2 uses white-
on-black for normal text, intense yellow for marked text and user
prompts, cyan for the function key numbers, and brown for the
function key descriptions. On monochrome systems TED 2 will use
bright white on black for marked text and user prompts.
TED 2 defaults to overstrike mode. The 'I' and 'O' on the status line
to indicate insert/overstrike mode have been removed. Rather, the
cursor changes from normal size in overstrike mode to a large block
when in insert mode.
Pressing Shift-F1 invokes the abort to DOS function immediately
without the confirmation prompt as when pressing F1 alone.
The scroll function has been changed to full-screen minus one.
Wherever the cursor is located on the screen, pressing Page Down
will result in the line the cursor is on to become the first line
on the screen.
The F7 and F8 function keys have been exchanged. This was done to
coincide with the F8 save function of the Microsoft Editor. The
functin key prompt "EXIT" has been changed to "SAVE" so as not to
be confused with the ABORT function.
TED 2 uses .TED for backup file extension. This allows editing files
without losing any .BAK files already on disk.
Read-only files may be edited without fear of losing the original.
If filename.ext is read-only, it may be edited as usual. Filename.ext
will be renamed filename.ted and retain the read-only attribute.
If filename.ext is edited a second time, it will remain unchanged,
and the edit session will be saved as filename.$$$. Carried further,
filename.ext would always contain results of the first edit session,
filename.$$$ would contain the most recent session, and filename.ted
would always contain the original file.
TED does not clear the screen on exit, but the original used two lines
to display the copyright after exit. This cause the screen to scroll,
losing the first two lines on the screen. I have moved the copyright
message to the beginning, which will display briefly before opening
the file.
Mike Dexter