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- From: williams@ab.wvnet.edu (Tom Williams)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.tpu,comp.editors
- Subject: Re: edt emulation
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.231949.693@ab.wvnet.edu>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 18:19:49 GMT
- Article-I.D.: ab.1992Nov11.231949.693
- References: <DAVIS.92Nov1225413@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu>
- Organization: Alderson-Broaddus College
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- > I see no
- > reason to have the user insert the search string into the buffer, only to yank
- > it back out to the paste buffer destroying what is there. This really sounds
- > like a kludge to me which I do not want to duplicate.
- >
-
- Agreed. I have been an EDT user for about 10 years now.
- (Does that give me extra votes? :-) ) The first thing I did
- was redefine Gold/Enter to be the nokeypad mode command
-
- "(S/?'Old string: '/?' New string: '/)."
-
- A couple of subtleties worth emulating: Search commands
- perform an implicit SELECT (Set Mark) operation on the
- search string if it's found, allowing the user to do a CUT
- operation on it. Also, the change case (Gold-KP1) command
- acts on either select range or, if no select range is
- defined, the current character.
-
- --
-
- -Tom Williams
- Computer Center Manager
- Alderson-Broaddus College
- WILLIAMS@AB.WVNET.EDU
-