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Ded was originally written for CP/M-80 systems. File 'ded.doc' is a
description of that version. The version for the Amiga is different in
the following ways:
- the program to configure Ded for different key bindings has not
yet been ported. Thus, you are currently stuck with the bindings
described in 'CommandList'.
- the ability to handle multiple windows on the screen has been
added. The only documentation for these new commands is their
presence in the command list. Most of them are pretty
straightforward, however. Note that Ded cannot currently handle
having multiple windows into the same buffer.
- file I/O in Ded is currently a bit slow. This is because it uses
Draco's I/O system in a portable way, and that I/O system is
produced by the current compiler and so isn't very efficient.
The big cost is the register save/restore on procedure entry/
exit.
- Ded's use of the Amiga screen is via my CRT library. This results
in quite fast screen updates, scrolling, etc. I usually run Ded
in the background and use the window forground/background
gadgets to switch between Ded's window and the AmigaDOS window.
The window sizing gadget is present, but Ded doesn't know about
it, so don't touch it (Ded won't crash or anything, but it
doesn't understand about it's "screen" changing size). If you do
fiddle with it use ESC-r to redraw the screen.
- Ded currently doesn't handle lines longer than it can display on
the screen. This is currently 79 characters. I know how to fix
this fairly easily, but haven't done it yet.