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- TED
- Command
-
- Tom Kihlken
- 1988 No. 19 (Utilities)
-
-
- Purpose: A small, full-screen editor for line-oriented files of up to
- 64K in length that supports scrolling, cut, copy, paste, and printing
- operations, and permits entry of all members of the IBM character set.
-
- Format: TED [filespec]
-
- Remarks: TED will open and read a file whose name (and path, if required)
- are supplied initially. If no filespec is provided it will open a new file and
- prompt for a filename when the Save and Exit command (F7) is given. The
- original of a modified file is saved with a .BAK extension. The Abort command
- (F1), when verified, abandons any modifications and leaves the original file
- intact.
-
- Lines may be of any length, and each must be terminated by pressing
- Enter. Lines longer than the screen width display a diamond in the rightmost
- column. Offscreen characters (up to 248 columns) may be viewed by using the
- Ctrl-<arrow> keys. Lines may be broken by pressing Enter at any point, and may
- be conflated by pressing Delete at the line end.
-
- F1 -- (Abort) exit with out saving.
- F2 -- (Cut) removes blocked text to the paste buffer.
- F3 -- (Print) Pressing F3 prints the blocked text.
- F4 -- (Mark) A block of text is defined by toggling on the Mark command (F4)
- and moving the cursor with the arrow keys. The Marked area is shown in
- inverse video.
- F5 -- (Copy) copies blocked text to the paste buffer.
- F6 -- (Paste) inserts text from the paste buffer at any point where the
- cursor is located. The paste buffer remains intact until another
- section is cut or copied.
- F7 -- (Exit) Save and Exit
- F8 -- (Find) Finds a String of characters.
- F9 -- (Del l) deletes the entire line.
- F10 - (Udel l) restores the most recent deletion of F9.
-
- Ctrl F1 -- (Open) Opens a new file.
- Ctrl F2 -- (New) Cuts away all text from the file buffer. Other buffers
- remain unchanged
- Ctrl F5 -- (Copy2d) copies blocked text to a disk file.
- Ctrl F6 -- (Merge) inserts text from a disk file.
- Ctrl F7 -- (Save) saves with out exiting.
- Ctrl F8 -- (Find_r) finds another occurance of the same string.
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-
- The Home and End keys move the cursor to the beginning and end of the
- current screen line; the Tab key moves to the next column evenly divisible by
- eight. Text is entered in Insert mode by default; pressing the Insert key
- toggles to overstrike mode. TED configures itself to the display in use and
- supports EGA and VGA text mode 3, the standard 80 columns by 25 rows.
- PgUp and PgDn scroll the file by the number of rows displayed, minus 5.
- Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDn move to the top and bottom of the file.
-
- Any character in the IBM set can be entered by pressing the Alt key,
- typing its ASCII value on the numeric keypad, then releasing the Alt key.
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-
- I HOPE YOU ENJOY THE CHANGES I MADE TO THE "TED" SOURCE CODE.
- I ADD A FEW THINGS TO MAKE MY PROGAMMING EASIER, AND I AM
- PASSING THE SOURCE CODE ON TO YOU SO YOU CAN DO THE SAME.
- ROGER SCHROLL
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