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- From: mrr@mrsoft.network23.com (Mark Rinfret)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: AREXX question for CED Pro users
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- Date: Mon, 02 Nov 1992 07:29:32 GMT
- References: <1992Oct28.151432.22477@black.ox.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Oct28.151432.22477@black.ox.ac.uk>, Iftikhar Zaman writes:
-
- > (I don't see anyone speaking about CED, which is, I think, an
- > excellent editor...)
-
- Ditto.
- >
- > Numerous scripts which I write need at some time or another, to
- > know what character is under the cursor at a certain time. Now,
- > on screen one can set the environment so that the ASCII value of
- > the character under the cursor shows up in the status line...
- > Unfortunately, I don't say any "status" variable which AREXX
- > could query to get the ASCII value of the character under the
- > cursor...
- >
- > Any workarounds?
-
- Use "status 55" and "status 44". The former will give you a copy of
- the line buffer (in result) and the latter will give you the horizontal
- offset (column -1) of the cursor. Use an ARexx statement to extract
- the character from your copy of the line buffer. Does this help?
-
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