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- One of the new but undocumented features of Vernon Buerg's LIST program
- is its ability to invoke you favorite editor in a point and shoot
- manner. Assuming you have version 7.3d which is the current version as I
- write this you can customize LIST for your editor as follows:
- ;
- Using DEBUG and assuming you editor is named MYEDIT.EXE and is in your
- PATH. Make the directory that contains LIST.COM the current directory.
- Then:
- debug
- n list.com
- l
- e 17f7 "myedit"
- w
- q
- It is important that if your editor name is less than 4 characters long
- you pad the name with spaces to a minumum length of 4. This is because
- you are actually overwriting the default editor name of "edit". I guess
- an alternative would be to rename your favorite editor to EDIT.EXE or
- EDIT.COM as appropriate.
- ;
- Now when you are in LIST you can invoke a directory list via the ALT-V
- command. Just select the file you want to edit and move the cursor block
- the the filename and press 'e'. You will instantly invoke the editor
- you selected. Note: the 'e' is not listed as one the selections on the
- ALT-V screen and that's why I call this feature undocumented.
- ;
- Once you've tried this I am confident you will use it often.
- James Schmidt
- CIS 73447,607
-