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- KEd v2.06
- OS/2 character mode editor
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- (C) Copyright 1993 Kudzu Software
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- Don Radick
- Kudzu Software
- 1452 North Ave. NE
- Atlanta, GA 30307
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- Compuserve ID:76254,764
- October 10, 1993
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- Welcome to the fourth release of KEd! User support has been growing, and
- I have many great enhancements coming for future releases.
- First a few legal things (stay with me, it gets better):
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- KEd is the sole property of Kudzu Software. KEd is not free or public
- domain software. If you use this product on a regular basis then you
- are required to register the product. You may install this program on
- more than one computer if only you operate each computer. The program is
- licensed to YOU, not to a computer - treat it like a book.
- Kudzu Software will not be liable for any use, or inability to use
- this program.
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- KEd is a character-mode editor. Why, you might ask, yet another text editor
- for OS/2? I first became disenchanted with editors while using
- the Microsoft C 6.0 PWB editor for OS/2 v 1.x several years ago, and no editor
- really suited me. I wanted an editor with the ease of use of Qedit or
- the Norton Editor, but I wanted to be able to customize it. By the way,
- KEd is produced with Borland C++ for OS/2.
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- I think I've come up with some fairly natural key assignments. The next
- major version of KEd will allow keyboard remapping.
- For now, KEd loosely emulates SideKick.
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- What does KEd do?
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- KEd is a general purpose text editor; you won't find a GUI or fancy font
- support, but you will find a lot of speed. If you need to "punch out" a
- lot of text or need a fast, inexpensive programmer's editor I think you'll
- like it. KEd was designed for OS/2, and uses such OS/2 features as
- multiple threads and HPFS support. I am dissatisfied with the current
- implemention of the window manager, and do not anticipate adding
- mouse support anytime soon. KEd will run fine in an OS/2 windowed
- command session, but it's quite a bit slower.
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- So what can you do with KEd?
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- Hypertext online help
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- You will find a wealth of information here. Instead of writing a lengthy
- manual, you can find an answer to almost any question while on-line.
- As the status line shows, press F1 to get to help. KED.HLP must be in
- your current directory, your PATH, or any directory in your HELP path.
- I suggest putting KED.EXE and KED.HLP in your \UTIL subdirectory if that
- is in the PATH.
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- Search and Replace
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- KEd has powerful search and replace facilities. You can toggle case
- sensitivity (IE: find "House" rather than "house"), search backwards,
- find only whole words, and choose to confirm each replace if you wish.
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- Cut and Paste by lines or columns
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- You can mark blocks of text by lines, stream, or column. Once you have
- marked a block you can cut, view, copy, paste, or write it to a new file.
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- Load multiple files
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- You can load multiple files from the command line, up to the limit of
- the OS/2 CMD.EXE command processor.
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- HPFS (long filenames) support
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- Since this is an OS/2 product, long filenames are supported. The OS/2
- standard is to enclose a name with spaces with quotes. IE:
- KED "This is a long file"
- will load the file.
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- Settings save
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- You can change the color sets that various elements have, including 5 separate
- sets of colors for the edit window, the borders, dialog boxes, warning
- boxes, help and menus. You can change a number of options for the editor
- including Insert/Overstrike, write End_Of_File, safe save, 2 different forms
- of PageUP/PageDown, and initial Numlock setting. The options will be saved
- in KED.INI, which must be in your current directory or PATH.
- NOTE: KED.INI is not included in the distribution, you must SAVE your
- settings if you change them.
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- Ascii Chart
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- Press ALT-A, and the current character under the cursor will be highlighted
- in a table of all the ASCII characters. You can move to a non-printable
- character, press Return, and that character will be inserted in your file.
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- Shell to a new session
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- Press Shift-F2, and you can get to a command prompt easily. Initially,
- you will find a reminder to type <exit> to get back to the editor, but
- this will scroll off the screen, and you will need to remember this.
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- So what does KEd cost?
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- Currently, KEd costs $20 for a 1 user registration. Continued development
- is ONLY possible with your support. I pledge to be very responsive to any
- comments regarding feature set and bug (oh no!) fixes, and at this time I
- will offer support to unregistered users. Any comments are welcome - send
- US "snail mail" to the Atlanta address, or send electronic mail to the
- Compuserve ID. Registered users will retain their license through the next
- major version change. IE: if you register v2.06, you will retain your
- license up to and including v3.0x
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- To register, print out the REGISTER.DOC, and send a check or money order.
- Corporations can purchase a multiple copy license or site license
- at very attractive rates. Contact Kudzu Software for details.
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- There are no "begware" messages or "crippleware" disabled features.
- Everyone is treated as a responsible person.
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- What are the limits?
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- Since KEd was designed for speed, some compromises had to be made. All
- these limits can be changed, just let me know what you'd like to have.
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- 256,000 lines
- 12MB file size
- 80 column screen width (OS/2 only supports 132 columns on XGA)
- 43 or 50 row screen height (EGA/VGA limit)
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- I think it's a little silly to have a text editor that can handle 4 gigabyte
- files, or use an interpreter for everything, and those editors are much
- slower as a result.
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- I hope you like KEd, and look forward to talking to you soon.
-
- Don Radick
- Kudzu Software
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