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- *Help on Help
- How To Use Help
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- Use your cursor keys and ENTER, or the mouse to select a Topic.
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- Pressing the letter key of the first letter in a menu item will
- move the bar to that item. Each successive press of that letter
- will move to the next item with that letter as its first.
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- The carat (^) symbol represents the Control Key, ^Q means you press
- either Control key and Q. ^Q and Ctl-Q mean the same thing.
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- *Cursor Positioning
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- FUNCTION KEYSTROKE
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- Word left ^F or ^Left arrow
- Word right ^A or ^Right arrow
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- Line up ^E or Up arrow
- Line down ^X or Down arrow
- Page up ^R or PgUp
- Page down ^C or PgDn
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- Beginning of document ^QC or ^PgUp
- End of document ^QR or ^PgDown
- Beginning of line Home
- End of line End
- Goto Line Numer ^ON
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- *Text Manipulation
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- FUNCTION KEYSTROKE
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- Delete char ^G or Del
- Delete word ^T
- Delete line ^Y
- Insert / overwrite ^V or Ins
- New line ^M or Enter
- Insert line ^N
- Toggle Word Wrap ^OW
- Set Word Wrap Width ^OR
- Reformat Paragraph ^B
- Center Text on line ^OC or Alt-C
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- Don't interpret next key ^P
- (^P inserts the next key as an ASCII value)
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- *Block Commands
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- FUNCTION KEYSTROKE
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- Mark start of block ^KB or F7
- Mark end of block ^KK or F8
- Go to start of block ^QB
- Go to end of block ^QK
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- Read block (insert text) ^KR or Alt-R
- Write block ^KW
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- Copy block ^KC or F5
- Delete block (cut) ^KY
- Move block ^KV
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- Print block ^KP
- Unmark block ^KH or Alt-U
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- *Editing Function Keys
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- F1 - Help Shft-F1 - Change Help File
- F2 - Save file & Continue Shft-F2 - Set Default Dir, for read file
- F3 - Load file Shft-F3 - Change default extension
- F4 - Popup Macro List Shft-F4 - Change File Name
- F5 - Paste (Copy) Block Shft-F5 - Popup Tagline List
- F6 - Print Document Shft-F6 - Setup Printer
- F7 - Block begin
- F8 - Block end Shft-F8 - Remove Block Markers
- F9 - Find Shft-F9 - Find and Replace
- F10 - DOS Shell Shft-F10 - Delete ALL Text
- Alt-C - Center Text Alt-U - Unmark Block
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- (** All commands that destroy text will ask for confirmation **)
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- *Message Macro List
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- Pressing the F4 function key will present a list of macros
- that may be used for on the fly messages, or message templates
- for use during post a message.
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- Highlight the macro you need, then press ENTER, the macor will
- be pasted into the message text, and the cursor will move to the
- end of the macro.
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- *Taglines
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- Pressing Shift-F5 will popup a list of Taglines that can be appended
- to the message. The TagLine is pasted into the message at the cursor
- position.
- The tagline SHOULD always be the LAST line of the message.
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- The Tag Line data file is created with SISTAG.EXE
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- *Searching and Replacing
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- FUNCTION KEYSTROKE
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- Find ^QF
- Find and replace ^QA
- Resume search ^L
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- Search Options: G - Global search
- B - Backwards search
- C - Count replacments
- U - Ignore case
- W - Whole word search
- N - No confirmation
- [n] - repeat n times
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- *File Commands
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- Saving:
- Save and continue ^KS or F2
- Save and exit ^KX or ^KD or ^END or Alt-X
- Save a block ^KW
- Change File Name ^KO or Shft-F4
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- Quitting:
- Save and exit ^KX or ^KD or ^END or Alt-X
- Abandon changes and exit ^KQ or ESCape
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- Loading:
- Load a file F3 * = Available .RMT Files.
- (Current Dir) *.* = All Available Files.
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- Read in a file as a block ^KR or Alt-R
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- *Resizing the Edit Window
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- To activate move/resize, press the
- ScrollLock key. You will be in move/resize
- mode until ScrollLock is Off, or ESCape
- is pressed.
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- To MOVE, press keypad arrow keys.
- To RESIZE, press Shift and keypad arrow keys.
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- Left Shift to Shrink the window size.
- Right Shift to Grow the window size.
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- Window Settings are not saved upon exit.
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- *Hints From The Author
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- When you load the editor from the program, and are prompted for a
- Path\Filename, if you enter *.* (for current directory) or \PATH\*.*
- the editor will load, and display a picklist of all available files in
- the directory. *.* could also be *.TXT, *.DOC, *.MSG etc.
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- If you press F3 to load a new file, the default name shown, is the current
- file name. Pressing any key blanks the field. If you enter * (one asterisk)
- a list of the "default" files will be shown, (files expressly for the
- program), entering *.* or *.filespec, will present a list of those type
- files.
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- The above follows for "Reading in a Block/File".
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- *About The Editor
- The RASIS Message Editor
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- The message editor, is actually a full featured text editor, with all
- the editing features you need.
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- You can use the internal editor for ANY text file editing, subject to its
- 500 line limit. I use it during test runs of RASIS to update the
- CHANGES file, and sometimes even the source code!
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- Thanks for using the RASIS message editor.
-
- Rand Nowell
- RaLin Enterprises Software
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- *Make Your Own Help File
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- * CREATE A CUSTOM HELP FILE *
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- You can edit a copy of this Help file, and create one more to your liking
- if you wish.
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- You can add help screens, reminders to you on how to accomplish what you
- want. The important thing to remember, is there can be no more than
- 50 Menu Items in the menu.
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- There should be no more than 22-23 lines of help in any section.
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- The help text should not extend beyond column 76. Use the text in this
- file, to help you design your own. SAVE A COPY OF THIS!
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- The file needs to be named SISED.HLP, and should be placed in a Dos PATH
- directory.
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- An asterisk (*) specifies a menu entry
- A number sign (#) specifies the end of the help page.
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