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- Cedar Island Edit V1.2.
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- Mike Caughran
- Cedar Island Software
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- Here are a few notes on the operation of Cedar Island Edit.
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- CIEDIT follows many of the editing conventions found in Microsoft Windows,
- Microsoft QuickBasic, Turbo Pascal IDE, and Turbo C IDE. If you are
- familiar with the editors found in these products you will be comfortable
- within CIEDIT. CIEDIT also supports many of the WordStar key sequences.
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- CIEDIT supports:
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- A mouse,scrollbars, multiple edit windows, cut, paste, find,
- search-and-replace, and an XTREE-like Directory tree.
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- CIEDIT may be started with a filename as a parameter like CIEDIT MYFILE.DOC
- or it may be started with a file mask as a parameter like CIEDIT *.DOC
- in which case a window would be opened from which a file selection may
- be made.
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- KEY Summary:
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- F2 - Save the current file.
- F3 - Open a new edit window.
- (You will be presented with the file selection window from which
- you can choose a selection)
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- Alt-F3 - Close the current window.
- (If you have made any changes to the file you are editing, you
- will be asked if you want to save your changes before closing
- the window)
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- F5 - If you are viewing multiple files or have shrunken a window down,
- this key will grow the window to its maximum size or toggle the
- back to its shrunken size.
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- F6 - When editing multiple files, this key will jump to the next window
- Shift-F6 - Jump to the previous window
- F10 - Jumps to the menu bar at the top of the screen
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- Shift-Down - Hilight area to be cut
- Shift-Up - Hilight area to be cut
- Shift-Del - Cut Hilighted area to Cut-Paste buffer
- Shift-Ins - Insert Cut-Paste buffer before cursor location
- Ctrl-Ins - Copy hilighted area to Cut-Paste buffer without deleting.
- Ctrl-Del - Clear Cut-Paste buffer
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- ESC - Gets you out of CIEDIT and out of the file selection window
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- Ctrl-F5 - Allows you to move and resize the current edit window.
- When you are in this mode, these keys are in effect:
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- UpArrow - moves the window up
- DownArrow - moves the window down
- LeftArrow - moves the window left
- RightArrow - moves the window right
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- ShiftUpArrow - shrinks the window's bottom line up
- ShiftDownArrow - expands the window's bottom line down
- ShiftLeftArrow - shrinks the window's right edge to the left
- ShiftRightArrow - expands the window's right edge to the right
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- ESC - ends window move/resize
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- Alt-X Quit CIEDIT
- Alt-F Jump to File menu
- Alt-E Jump to Edit menu
- Alt-S Jump to Search menu
- Alt-W Jump to Window menu
- Alt-A Jump to About menu
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- File menu keys:
- O or F3 Open the file selection window, select a file to edit,then
- edit the file in a new window.
- N Open an empty edit window
- S Save the current file
- A Save the current file under a different filename.
- C Bring up Directory Tree window so you can change the directory.
- D Shell to DOS.
- X Quit CIEDIT
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- Edit menu keys:
- U Undo all changes since last save.
- T Cut Hilighted area to Cut-Paste buffer
- C Copy hilighted area to Cut-Paste buffer without deleting.
- P Insert Cut-Paste buffer before cursor location
- S Edit Cut-Paste buffer contents
- C Clear Cut-Paste buffer
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- Search menu keys:
- F Find a string
- R Find a string and Replace it with another string
- S Search again for the same string
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- Window menu keys
- S Change current window size and location
- Z Toggle the size of the current window between maximum and
- its defined size
- T If multiple edit windows are open they will be Tiled
- A If multiple edit windows are open they will be Cascaded
- N Jump to next open window
- P Jump to previous open edit window
- C Close the currend edit window
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- About menu keys
- A Displays information about Cedar Island Edit 1.0
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- Mouse information:
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- Click on the little square box on the top line of the border around an edit
- window to close the window
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- Click on the double arrow on the top line of the border around an edit window
- to zoom the window to its maximum size or to shrink it to its defined size
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- Click and hold the top line of the border to move the window
- Click and hold the bottom right corner of the border to resize an edit window
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- If multiple edit windows are open, you may click on the window you want to
- be active
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- File Selection window information:
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- Press F3 to open the File Selection window.
- You may enter the name of the file you want to edit in the field provided
- or you may tab to the list to select the file you want to edit from the list.
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- Directory Tree window information:
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- Press Alt-F then press C to change directory.
- A directory tree is displayed.
- Tab to the tree window.
- Cursor up and down the tree.
- Press enter on a tree limb to expand that directory.
- Tab to OK and press enter to change to the hilighted directory
- Press ESC to leave the Directory Tree window.
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- ShareWare information:
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- To register Cedar Island Edit V1.0, Send $10 to:
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- Cedar Island Software
- 9018 Division St.
- Juneau, Alaska 99801
- Please make checks payable to Mike S. Caughran
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- (907) 789-9030
- Before 10PM Pacific
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- To receive the latest version you may do one of these three things:
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- Send us a formatted disk and a self-addressed mailer
- Send and additional $3 and we will buy the disk, mailer and postage.
- Download the latest version from the Juneau RBBS at:
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- (907) 789-1694 2400,N,8,1
- (907) 789-7499 9600,N,8,1
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- Thank you for using Cedar Island Edit.
- We hope you find it complete and easy to use. If you have any questions
- or suggestions about the operation if CIEDIT, feel free to drop us a line.
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- Mike Caughran
- Cedar Island Software