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OS/2 Help File
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1996-03-19
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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Introduction ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
RED (Rexx EDitor) is a text editor tailored to OS/2 REXX & VXREXX programmers.
Originally a small personal project RED has evolved into a full-functioning
professional REXX Editor. Several of my favorite *nix editor functions have
been incorporated into RED.
WE at Black Pine Development intend to maintain RED as a "Living" program
through customer feedback. As a RED user it is your responsibility to inform us
when you have found a better way to edit a REXX file. We cannot reinvent the
wheel, but we can get a better ride from it.
RED was written using VXREXX from WATCOM. Using a language such as C, C++ or
Smalltalk may have been more efficient however, we believe REXX has a future
niche with the small corporate/home programmer using OS/2. In this spirit RED
was conceived.
The RED Beta 1 is being used to debug and refine the editing functions, user
interface, search functions, and the overall behavior of RED. The Drag-N-Drop
programming functions are not yet installed and WILL NOT BE EVALUATED.
Beta test feedback & general suggestions will be taken on a form at
"http://www.halcyon.com/blkpine/red.html". There are several choices for a
subject line please be as accurate as possible, here and in your problem descriptions.
An overall RED evaluation form will be at
"http://www.halcyon.com/blkpine/redeval.html". We strongly encourage the use of
this form. Each area of RED is ranked from 1 (Lowest) to 5 (Highest), as well
as an area for comments. Honest opinion is what we are after!
This Help Facility is grouped by subject as follows:
o Introduction (This Section)
o Black Pine Development
o Buttons & Menus
o Code Generation
o Registration
o New in Revision C
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. Black Pine Development ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Black Pine Development
Γûá RED was written by David E. Wald, of Black Pine Development. Γûá
Black Pine Development was established to provide LOW cost HIGH quality
software to the OS/2 community. We can accomplish this by keeping low overhead
& a steady rate of production. To meet this goal it is imperative to be in
constant contact with the needs of our customers. WE NEED YOUR HELP! You are
the customer & you know what you want.
Black Pine Development may be contacted via E-mail at blkpine@halcyon.com or
View Our WWW Home Page www.halcyon.com/blkpine/ We welcome & openly solicit
input from our customers & the entire OS/2 community.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3. Buttons & Menus ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Image Pushbuttons
o The Copy Pushbutton- Left Click to Copy, Right Click to Paste.
o The Cut Pushbutton- Left Click to Cut, Right Click to Paste.
o The Yank/Put Pushbutton- Left Click to Yank the Selected text to the Value
Represented by "X". "X" may be from 1-50 allowing You to have 50 "Copied"
Text Strings Stored. Right Click to put the String stored in the "X" value
into the document. If no String is Stored YANK.X will be inserted.
o Query the status of the selected "X" value. The result Will be Written to
the Status Field.
o Delete the Next "X" number of words.
o Left Click to move forword "X" words. Right Click to Move back "X" words.
o Left Click to move forword "X" lines. Right Click to Move back "X" lines.
o Left Click to move to the "Home" Position. Right Click to Move to the "End" Position.
o Left Click to Page Up. Right Click to Page Down.
o Left Click to open the "Search" Window.
Menus
o File Menu
1. Open- To Open a NEW file.
2. Save- To Save the Current file.
3. Save AS- To Save the Current file with a new name.
4. Settings Not used YET!
5. Exit- Exit RED.
o Edit Menu
1. Copy- To Copy the Selected Text
2. Cut- To Cut the selected text.
3. Delete- To Delete the selected Text.
4. Delete Word- To Delete the next "X" words.
5. Paste- To Insert Text from the clipboard .
6. Undo- Undo the Last Event.
o Windows
1. Sections- To View the list of Sections or functions in the file you are editing.
2. Comments- To View the comments for the file you are editing
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Note: The Sections & Comments Windows will move you to a section or comment by Double Clicking the item you wish to move to.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4. Code Generation ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Warning: Code Generation Functions are not implemented in RED Beta 1
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5. Registeration ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Note: Registeration of the Beta Version of RED is Not Required
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6. New in Revision C ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
/GREP- A GREP like tool with it's own multi-line entry field for editing the
grep results as selected from a list of positive returns. The edited results
may be inserted into the current doccument with the click of the mouse.
RED Version Control System- A New Menu item to insert file information at the
beginning of a doccument. Information includes: filename, creation date & time,
version & revision number, last modification date & time, and a "One Liner"
descriptive comment. As well as a Version & Date Chalnge log in the