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FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HATE READING MANUALS!
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Please just read this short file which contains a few key features that
are not on the menus and you will miss if you don't read the whole manual.
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YOU MAY EDIT MULTIPLE FILES FROM THE COMMAND LINE. For example
EF MYFILE1 MYFILE2 MYFILE3
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YOU MAY USE WILDCARDS IN FILE NAMES AT THE COMMAND LINE. For exmaple
EF *.C *.H *.DOC
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ANOTHER WAY OF EDITING A LARGE NUMBER OF FILES from the command line is
to make an ASCII file containing the names of the files you wish to edit
(one file per line) and then type "ED @XXX" where XXX is the name of the
list file.
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IF YOU TYPE "EF" WITHOUT ANY PARAMETERS, EasyFold will attempt to load the
same files as in the previous editing session.
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TO ENTER A CARRIAGE RETURN IN A SEARCH/REPLACE STRING ENTER <CTRL-N>.
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WHEN BEING PROMPTED FOR SEARCH/REPLACE/LOAD STRINGS you may type <Up> or
<Down> to retrieve previously used strings.
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YOU MAY USE WILDCARDS IN FILE NAMES WHEN ENTERING A FILE TO LOAD VIA THE
LOAD COMMAND. In this case you will enter a directory browser.
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WHEN BEING ASKED FOR FILENAME TO LOAD you may type <Up> or <Down> to retrieve
previously used names.
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YOU MAY INDENT / UN-INDENT A BLOCK OF TEXT by simply selecting the block and
then typing <TAB> / <SHIFT-TAB>
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<CTRL-HOME> / <CTRL-END> scroll the screen while leaving the cursor at the
same position in the text.
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IF YOU HAVE SVGA you may be able to edit in some other modes for example 132
column modes. The actual mode numbers will be card dependant and you have to
tell EasyFold these numbers in advance. EasyFold can access up to three
extra screen modes by examining the environment variables EXMOD1, EXMOD2 and
EXMOD3. For example on a 8900 based SVGA card, mode 90 is a 132x60 text mode
so you would add the following line to your autoexec.bat to access this,
SET EXMOD1=90
To find out what extra screen modes are available on your machine
consult your video card manual.
NOTE: At the time of writing only a few mouse drivers support 132 column
modes.
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ANY FILE WITH THE EXTENTION ".EF" will always be read and written to the
editors working directory. This is usefull for often used files which you
want to access from anywhere. For example you may keep a small ".EF" file
containing your name and address for insertion into documents.
NOTE: The location of the editors working directory is determined in
the following order of priorities.
1. The dierctory specified by an environment variable "EFWORK".
2. The directory specified by an environment variable "HOME".
3. The directory that the editor executable is in.
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WITH SOME NON-STANDARD VIDEO CARDS (especially in laptops) the cursor
may not appear properly (or at all!) in which case you can tell EasyFold
not to change the cursor appearance by setting an environment variable
"TOUCH_CURS" equal to "0". This is done by adding the line:
set touch_curs=0
in your "AUTOEXEC.BAT".
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