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- VEDIT's flexible configuration lets you tailor it to the particulars of your
- computer and "customize" it to your applications, personal preferences and
- keyboard layout.
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- For example, you could select to have tab positions set to 10, 25 and 30, the
- "right margin" set to column 65 and "justification" enabled. You can even
- select the character to be displayed at the end of lines (where the <CR><LF>
- "newline" is) and the "fill character" used to display Tab characters. You
- can select the cursor type and cursor blink rate or a non-blinking cursor.
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- VEDIT can be configured to a wide variety of hardware. All VGA screen sizes
- such as 132 x 60 are supported. All colors used in VEDIT can be configured.
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- An important feature is the ability to completely determine your own keyboard
- layout - what control or function key you will press to perform each edit
- function. This demo asks you to press, for example, "<F10>" to access the menu
- system. However, you can assign the [MENU] function to any key. You can even
- assign it to two different keys. The same holds for all edit functions.
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- You can start with a keyboard layout we supply, such as the "normal",
- Brief(tm), WordStar (tm) or Word Perfect (tm) layouts, perhaps modifying them
- a little. Or you can create your own keyboard layout, perhaps using one you
- are already familiar with from another editing/word processing program.
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- You can add new keystroke macros at any time. You can enter them directly
- using a special window or have VEDIT record your keystrokes while you edit.
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- VEDIT PLUS's powerful macro language lets you create your own editing
- functions and assign them to a key using keystroke macros. A library of
- keystroke macros is supplied that includes "duplicate line", "open line",
- "transpose letters", "word count" and many others.
- The VEDIT editors have two levels of configuration.
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- 1. Most configuration changes can be made via menus. The {CONFIG} sub-menu
- lets you change the Tab stops, "Word processing", "Programming",
- "Colors", "Screen display", "File handling", "Emulation" and "Misc"
- options. You can also change the "Printing" and "Searching" options.
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- The {CONFIG, Save into VEDIT} function makes the changes permanent by
- saving the current configuration settings and, optionally, any new
- keystroke macros into the "VEDIT.EXE" file.
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- 2. The current configuration can also be saved to a disk file with {CONFIG,
- Save to Disk}. Similarly, the keyboard layout can be saved to disk with
- {MISC, Keyboard Layout, Save to Disk}. These files can easily be edited
- and loaded back into VEDIT.
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- In the simplest case, the VEDIT.EXE file contains the complete configuration;
- start up is not slowed down by separate configuration files.
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- On the other hand, a network administrator can configure a single executable
- VEDIT.EXE for many users. Individual users can then have VEDIT load a
- configuration file at startup which satisfies their personal preferences.
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