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- !BasicEdit
- ----------
-
- This is a very simple application that provides a desktop front
- end to the Acorn Basic Editor (with the assistance of !BootA)
- (note that the RISC OS 3 version of !Edit will automatically
- tokenise/detokenise Basic programs so that the old Basic Editor
- and applications such as this are no longer necessary).
-
- This application primarily consists of just two files:
-
- !RunA - an OBEY file that starts up Basic specifying that the
- file to be edited should be loaded; it also initialises
- a couple of function keys, sets the current directory
- to that containing the file to be edited and invokes
- the !Init EXEC file.
-
- !Init - an EXEC file used to invoke the Basic Editor once Basic
- has started up.
-
- The two function keys defined are:
-
- f2 - set to "EDIT." so that it can be used to re-invoke the
- Basic Editor after exiting from it to Basic (via
- SHIFT-f4)
-
- f4 - set to "*QUIT" so that it can be used to exit back to
- the desktop environment after exiting from the Basic
- Editor to Basic (via SHIFT-f4)
-
- These function key definitions can be modified to suit your own
- requirements.
-
- Drag a file to the !BasicEdit icon on the icon bar to load it
- into the Basic Editor for editing. Because the current directory
- is set to the directory containing the file, after editing it can
- be saved using just the filename (leafname) without any path
- information.
-
- To create a new file just click on the !BasicEdit icon. This will
- leave the current directory unchanged.
-