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1. the editor will display a page of text near the end of the file and lt BEEP gt to indicate failure Repeated use of lt ESC gt N provides a convenient way of finding the desired instance of the find string lt ESC gt Q This command allows the operator to abort an edit session WITHOUT perserving the changes made The editor will clear the screen and ask Quit without update Any answer that starts with the letter Y ignoring case will cause the editor to simply abandon all changes made The file specified for editing is left intact Any other answer causes the editor to assume the operator is confused an automatic lt ESC gt H is performed The operator must type lt ESC gt to continue editing lt ESC gt R This command is used to restore deleted text into the text window The last block of text deleted by lt ESC gt lt Minus gt lt ESC gt D or lt ESC gt K is inserted into the text window at the location of the cursor on the screen The screen is suitably updated to reflect the change In order to make room in the text window for the restored text some text at the top of the window may be moved to the end of the new file and so cannot be re edited without re invoking SEDIT It is possible that SEDIT cannot make enough room in the text window to insert the deleted text if this occurs SEDIT will echo lt BEEP gt and the restore will not be performed This command ignores a repeat specification The restore command is2. typing lt RETURN gt will split the text line so that more Insert Me s are legal If the cursor is beyond the lt RETURN gt character that ends the line blanks are automatically inserted to extend the line to the point of the insertion before insertion takes place In any case if the window is full SEDIT will attempt to make more room be fore inserting the character by moving the first screenful of text in the window to the new file if the operator is relatively fast a noticeable delay may occur be fore typed ahead characters start being echoed again this is normal If the insertion is occuring in the first screenful of text in the window then this cannot be done without losing the operator s cursor position and so SEDIT will lt BEEP gt and ignore the command this is an unusual circumstance lt RETURN gt This command causes a lt RETURN gt character to be inserted into the text at the point of the cursor Characters to the right of the cursor are moved down to the next screen line and the cursor is positioned at the left of the characters moved down so that more Insert Me commands may be entered This command is used at the end of a screen line or to break a line into two parts It may be entered even when the cursor is at the right side of the screen unlike an Insert Me command Note that even though the lt RETURN gt character is invisible it is present at the end of every line on the screen and can be deleted If
3. into DISK DELETED TMP before SEDIT is invoked The first lt ESC gt R executed will cause the contents of DELETED TMP to be inserted into the text window lt ESC gt X This command terminates the editing process All changes made are moved the new file this process may take a while if a large file was being edited The original text file is renamed to XXX BAK where XXX YYY was its original name and the changed text is placed in the specified file Note an intermediate file EDITOR TMP is used by the editor during the editor process lt ESC gt Z This command causes the screenful of text at the end of the text window NOT necessarily the End of the File to be displayed and the cursor positioned at the very end of the displayed text This command is used generally with small documents those that fit entirely in the text window to get to End of File An easy way to get to the actual end of the text file in a large document is to search for lt ESC gt F a string known not to be in the text the string ENDFILE generally works well for this purpose C 1988 Software Dynamics 14 06 25 81 SEDITV1 2 SEDIT USER S MANUAL SECTION IV Special Commands lt ESC gt lt TAB gt i This command causes a new tab setting to be set at the current cursor column If a tab setting already exists at that column it is made to go away The screen will be re displayed if it has a tab in it thus changing the tab settings will change the appearanc
4. is greater than zero the digit 1 selects the lst line of the file etc a maximum of 9 rulers may be stored in SEDIT TAB file SEDIT will lt BEEP gt if SEDIT TAB does not exist or does not have enough rulers in it to satisfy the request lt ESC gt T removes all tab stops and resets the left margin to and the right margin to infinity this may be performed even if SEDIT TAB does not exist Selecting a new ruler causes any previous tab stops left or right margin specifications to be lost and replaced by the newly selected settings Modifications to the newly selected ruler may be made immediately if desired When SEDIT is invoked an automatic lt ESC gt Tl is executed so ruler 1 is the default ruler If the file SEDIT TAB does not exist an automatic lt ESC gt T is performed instead Since the rulers in SEDIT TAB are simply lines of text SEDIT may be used to add or modify the rulers in that file When constructing a ruler the character lt indicates the desired left margin the character gt the optional right margin and a indicates a tab stop All other characters in the ruler should be blanks presence of a tab character in a ruler will invalidate it C 1988 Software Dynamics 16 06 25 81 SEDITV1 2 SEDIT USER S MANUAL SECTION V Disasters DISASTERS A Disaster can occur while using SEDIT for either of the following reasons a system or disk error occured which SEDIT is not prepared to handle or a fata
5. lt ESC gt lt COLON gt lt ESC gt lt PERIOD gt lt ESC gt lt MINUS gt lt ESC gt lt ESC gt A lt ESC gt B a lt ESC gt C e lt ESC gt D e lt ESC gt F la lt ESC gt H lt ESC gt J lt ESC gt K lt ESC gt N lt ESC gt Q lt ESC gt R e lt ESC gt X e lt ESC gt Z lt ESC gt lt TAB gt lt ESC gt lt lt ESC gt gt i i e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e id e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e id e e e e Ld e e id e e e e e e e s kd e e e lt ESC gt T lt DIGIT gt e e o o o o SECTION V DISASTERS C 198 Software Dynamics EDITO COMMANDS e e 1 1 gt l 4 e 4 5 e 5 oe e 5 6 6 6 6 2 7 7 7 2 7 8 gt 8 8 8 8 9 e 9 9 e 9 9 s 9 96 25 81 SEDITV1 2 SEDIT USER S MANUAL SECTION I Introduction SEDIT An Easy To Use Screen Editor SEDIT is a very easy to use CRT screen oriented text editor SEDIT can be used to both create and modify arbitrary text documents such as letters manuscripts input text for SD s TYPE text formatter and even compute
6. requested The Operator must type another key to specify what function is desired i e lt ESC gt ape followed by H for HELP The operation of the special commands is described below Type to INSERT lt RUBOUT gt deletes insert lt CTL U gt deletes under cursor lt UP gt lt DOWN gt lt LEFT gt lt RIGHT gt Move cursor in specified direction ESC lt UP gt or lt DOWN gt Move cursor one screen in specified direction ESC lt LEFT gt or lt RIGHT gt Move cursor left or right to start of word ESC lt CR gt Move cursor to start of current line ESC lt PERIOD gt Mark cursor location as start of Delete or Justify ESC Delete text from marked point to cursor ESC Redisplay the screen centering cursor context ESC A Again repeat change and find next occurence ESC B Move cursor to top of text window ESC C lt string gt ESC Change found string to lt string gt ESC D Delete word ESC F lt string gt ESC FIND lt string gt ESC H ESC Displays this text ESC J Force text between marked point and cursor to fit margins ESC K Delete Kill rest of line ESC N Find next occurrence of lt ESC gt F string ESC Quit editing don t update file ESC R Restore deleted text here ESC X Exit edit mode update file ESC Z Move cursor to bottom of text window ESC lt or ESC gt Set Left Margin Right Margin ESC lt TAB gt Set Reset Tab Stop ESC T lt digit gt Select new Ruler from SEDIT TAB lt CTL E gt erases
7. text in the window on the CRT The cursor is positioned to the upper left hand corner This command is always legal lt ESC gt C This command is used to change a string found by using lt ESC gt F lt ESC gt N or lt ESC gt A to a string of characters specified in the command After the user types lt ESC gt C the line currently occupied by the cursor is blanked on the screen the last change string specified is displayed and the cursor is moved to the left side of the screen The user may edit the Change string using lt Left Arrow gt lt Right Arrow gt lt Control U gt lt RUB gt out Insert Me lt Control E gt or lt Control X gt characters if the last change string is not what is desired the operator may strike lt Control X gt to erase it completely The operator indicates the desired change string is complete by typing lt ESC gt SEDIT will re display the text that was erased when lt ESC gt C was typed and then it will change the occurrence of the find string under the cursor to the specified change string The find string is NOT saved for lt ESC gt R Note if the cursor is not positioned at the first character of a string that matches the find string the editor will lt BEEP gt and no change will be made lt ESC gt D This command causes the word whose first letter is under the cursor to be deleted from the text buffer A word is defined as any sequence of letters or digits that are not seperate
8. the left side of the CRT screen it is moved to the end of the preceding line Should this require the cursor to move off the top of screen the screen will be re displayed so that the line on which the cursor will be placed will roughly be centered C 1988 Software Dynamics 8 06 25 81 SEDITV1 2 SEDIT USER S MANUAL SECTION IV Special Commands lt ESC gt lt Right Arrow gt This command causes the cursor to be moved to the beginning of the word following the current cursor location If the cursor is anywhere within the last word of a line it is moved to the end of the line If the cursor is at the end of a line it is moved to the left side of the CRT screen on the next line SEDIT will lt BEEP gt if the cursor is at the end of the text window and will not move the cursor lt ESC gt lt Digit gt lt Digit gt This command specifies a repeat count used to repeat the following command some commands ignore the repeat count in particular single character inserts deletes do not repeat For example to move the cursor right 13 places type lt ESC gt 13 lt Right arrow gt lt ESC gt This command causes the cursor to move to the right end of the line on which the cursor is currently positioned The lt CONTROL R gt key should be used instead lt ESC gt lt Colon gt This command causes the cursor position and the location of the distinguished point to be exchanged the new cursor location is then displayed This is use
9. the window is full SEDIT attempts to make more room as described in Insert Me lt TAB gt The lt TAB gt key is used to effectively insert one or more spaces in the buffer from the current cursor location until the next tab stop as indicated by the current ruler is reached SEDIT 1 2 actually places spaces in the text SEDIT 1 3 and above place actual lt TAB gt characters in the text so that displaying the text causes actual tabbing to occur This allows the tab boundaries to be changed and have the text display automatically adjusted without changing the text C 1988 Software Dynamics 5 06 25 81 SEDITV1 2 SEDIT USER S MANUAL SECTION III Single Keystroke Commands lt Control H gt Left Arrow This causes the cursor to be moved left one character position on the CRT screen If the cursor is past the lt RETURN gt on a line it is moved left until it is over the lt RETURN gt If the cursor is at the left hand side of the screen it is placed at the right hand end of the line above if the line above is wider than the CRT the cursor will be placed at the rightmost position of that line on the CRT and lt BEEP gt will be echoed The screen will scroll down a line if the cursor was at the top left hand corner If the cursor selects the character at the very top of the window this command is illegal lt Control L gt Right Arrow This causes the cursor to be moved right one character position on the CRT screen If
10. to end of line lt CTL X gt cancels line lt CTL F gt moves cursor to front of line lt CTL R gt moves cursor to end of line ESC lt digits gt Repeat next command lt digits gt times ESC Moves cursor to end of line ESC lt COLON gt Swaps cursor position with marked text location Le C 1989 Software Dynamics 3 96 25 81 SEDITV1 2 SEDIT USER S MANUAL SECTION II General Commands SEDIT Commands SEDIT commands consist of following types Simple Cursor Movement Insert Me lt Tab gt Delete Character Cancel Line or Erase to End of Line Special Unless an lt ESC gt ape character is typed immediately before a keystroke the keystroke is cursor movement insert me delete character cancel or erase to end of line a tab character or illegal The arrow keys on the CRT are simple cursor movement keys and are used to move the cursor in the direction given by the arrow All characters with visible representations and the space character are treated as Insert Me commands carriage return is also an Insert Me command that has some side effects Tabs cause conventional tabbing to occur The lt RUB gt out key is a delete character to left of cursor command lt Control U gt is a delete character under cursor command Erase to end of line deletes part of a line cancel line deletes the entire contents of a line An lt ESC gt ape character tells SEDIT that the next keystroke specifies which of the special functions
11. 345678941234 6789512345678961234 gt lt ESC gt lt This command sets the left margin to the column in which the cursor is currently located the left margin is where the first character inserted in a line will be placed The old left margin setting is lost SEDIT will automatically cancel all tab settings to the left of the newly specified Leftmargin this may change the appearance of the text A left margin causes SEDIT to automatically insert left margin spaces after an inserted CR or automatic wrap due to line overflow lt ESC gt gt This command sets the right margin to the column in which the cursor is currently located the right margin is the rightmost place where a character is allowed to be Tab settings beyond this point will be lost this may change the papearance of the text Selecting a right margin will cause C 1989 Software Dynamics 15 96 25 81 SEDITV1 2 SEDIT USER S MANUAL SECTION IV Special Commands SEDIT to automatically move words at the right margin to the beginning the left margin of the next line and to re justify until the next paragraph break when inserting text in that screen line Setting the right margin to the rightmost column of the screen causes the right margin to be set to infinity line wrap cannot then occur lt ESC gt T lt Digit gt This command is used to select a new Ruler from the file DISK SEDIT TAB The lt Digit gt specified selects a line from the SEDIT TABS file if the digit
12. 5800 5809 SCDII V 1 3 USER S MANUAL Cx 5 SOFTWARE DYNAMICS 6899 6809 SEDIT USER S MANUAL SEDIT V1 3 lst Printing COPYRIGHT C 198 SOFTWARE DYNAMICS NOTICE This manual describes Software Dynamics SEDIT Version 1 3 Software Dynamics has carefully checked the information given in this manual and it is believed to be entirely reliable However no responsibility is assumed for inaccuracies SD reserves the right to change the specifications without notice Je Je de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de de Je de de de k de de de de de Je de de de de de de de de de de de de KKK de Je de de kk This manual describes software which is a proprietary product of Software Dynamics SD SD software is licensed for use on a single copy per computer basis and is covered by U S copyright laws Unless a written exception is obtained from SD the soft ware must be used only on the single computer whose unique SD assigned serial number matches that for which the software was purchased Copying the software for any purpose other than archival storage or use of the software on other than the as signed serial numbered CPU is strictly prohibited SD assumes kk no liability regarding the use of the software Certain software programs and datafiles are delivered for use in an encrypted format The content of such programs and data are considered to be a trade secret o
13. TED TMP when SEDIT is exited via lt ESC gt Q or lt ESC gt X this allows blocks of text to be C 1988 Software Dynamics 9 6 25 81 SEDITV1 2 SEDIT USER S MANUAL SECTION IV Special Commands shuffled arbitrarily between different files This command ignores any repeat specification lt ESC gt This command causes SEDIT to re display the text on the CRT such that the line on which the cursor is positioned is displayed roughly halfway down the CRT screen The logical position of the cursor with respect to the text is not changed This is useful when the text surrounding the cursor in both directions needs to be examined or if rarely the CRT fails to display the text properly C 1988 Software Dynamics 19 06 25 81 SEDITV1 2 SEDIT USER S MANUAL SECTION IV Special Commands lt ESC gt A This command changes the text under the cursor if it matches the last specified find string See lt ESC gt F to the last specified change string See lt ESC gt C and then causes SEDIT to locate the next occurrence of the find string The newly found occurence is then displayed with the cursor on the first character of the found sequence The command is logically identical in function to the commands lt ESC gt C string lt ESC gt lt ESC gt N and is best thought of as again change it and find the next occurrence lt ESC gt B This command moves the cursor to the first character in the window and displays the first screen of
14. ame line The lt Control F gt command should be used lt ESC gt lt Up Arrow gt This command causes SEDIT to display the screenful of text preceding the text currently displayed and to position the cursor roughly halfway down the screen at the currently selected left margin Attempting to go up beyond the beginning of the window will cause a lt BEEP gt and the cursor will not move lt ESC gt lt Down Arrow gt This command causes display of the screenful of text following the text currently being displayed the cursor is positioned roughly halfway down the screen at the currently selected left margin When the screen being displayed is at the end of the window lt ESC gt Z can do this lt ESC gt lt Down Arrow gt will cause the next screenful to be taken from the old file If SEDIT does not have enough room in the window to hold the new text text at the beginning of the window is moved to the end of the new file to make space If only a partial screenful of text is displayed when the command is executed the screenful will be filled out instead of displaying the next screenful lt ESC gt lt Left Arrow gt This command causes the cursor to be moved to the beginning of the word to the left of the cursor a word begins with a letter or a digit If the cursor is at the left margin position and the contents of the left margin are blank this command will position the cursor at the left side of the screen If the cursor is at
15. auses the characters under the cursor and to the right of the cursor on the same screen line to be deleted The cursor is not moved Text deleted by this command cannot be recovered see lt ESC gt K for a similar command whose effects are reversible lt Control X gt Cancel Line This key causes all the characters on the same line as the cursor to be deleted the lt RETURN gt character at the end of the line is not deleted The cursor is placed at the left edge of the screen on the same line Text deleted by this command cannot be recovered see lt ESC gt K for a similar command whose effects are reversible lt Control F gt This key causes the cursor to be moved to the currently selected left margin position on the same line lt Control R gt This key causes the cursor to move to the right end of the line currently holding the cursor C 1989 Software Dynamics 7 06 25 81 SEDITV1 2 SEDIT USER S MANUAL SECTION IV Special Commands Special commands Special commands are those used for less common functions such as moving the cursor long distances deleting large blocks of text moving text blocks around and other miscellaneous functions All special commands are invoked by typing lt ESC gt ape key followed by a keystroke to select the desired special function The special commands are listed below lt ESC gt lt RETURN gt This command causes the cursor to be moved to the currently selected left margin position on the s
16. d by some other character If the cursor is not over a letter or digit the editor will lt BEEP gt and the command will not be executed This command can be invoked when the cursor is in the middle of a word in which case the editor only deletes the part of the word under and to the right of the cursor The deleted word can be restored using lt ESC gt R lt ESC gt F This command is used to make the editor search for a sequence of characters specified by the command The string specified by the user is referred to as the find string throughout the rest of this document After the user types C 1988 Software Dynamics 11 06 25 81 SEDITV1 2 SEDIT USER S MANUAL SECTION IV Special Commands lt ESC gt F the line currently occupied by the cursor is blanked on the screen the last find string searched for is displayed and the cursor is moved to the left side of the screen The user may edit the find string using lt Left Arrow gt lt Right Arrow gt lt Control u gt lt RUB gt out Insert Me lt Control E gt or lt Control X gt characters usually the last string searched for is not what is desired and the operator strikes lt Control X gt to erase it completely A find string may not include the lt RETURN gt character The operator indicates the desired find string is complete by typing lt ESC gt SEDIT will re display the text that was erased when lt ESC gt F was typed and then it will search for the next occurre
17. e of text containing lt TAB gt characters Note The current setting of tab stops left margins and right margins within the editor are only valid for the editing session in which they are made they cannot be saved permanently However the lt ESC gt T command can be used to specifiy a set of tab stops and margin selections from a permanent file Whenever a tab stop or left or right margin are adjusted or a new ruler is selected the ruler is displayed The line containing the cursor is erased and the rightmost digit of the column number of each column is displayed in that column Columns whose column number is a multiple of 19 have the 10 s digit displayed in that column instead of a zero The current setting of the left margin is shown by a column containing the lt character instead of a digit the right margin if not at infinity is shown by a gt character and all tab stops are shown by characters Columns beyond the right margin are not numbered The ruler below has a left margin at column 15 tabs at 23 and 45 and a right margin at 65 The operator may now make further adjustments to the ruler using the displayed digits to simplify counting The operator signals completion of adjustments by executing any SEDIT command other than a ruler adjustment When all adjustments to the ruler are complete the erased line of text is re displayed in place of the ruler Sample ruler display 12345678911234 lt 6789212 456789312
18. en delete from left to right whereas lt RUB gt out deleted from right to left Virtually all the editing required to a document can be performed via positioning the cursor inserting and or deleting using lt RUB gt out or lt Control U gt as necessary Entry of text for documents or letters can be easily accomplished using the margin control facilities of SEDIT The operator can specify using a set of special commands the position of left and right margins and tab stops Then text entry may be performed by simply typing the raw text as a continuous stream of keystrokes SEDIT will automatically break off lines that are longer than the right margin and continue them on the next line starting at the specified left margin Typing errors may be corrected without regard to margin boundaries by use of the lt RUB gt out key Correction of text after it is entered is performed as described above re justification of the text after correction can be performed using the Justify command C 1989 Software Dynamics 2 96 25 81 SEDITV1 2 SEDIT USER S MANUAL SECTION I Introduction Other editing functions such as searching for a specific string removing a block of text cutting so it may be inserted at another point pasting making repeated identical changes to the text etc are accomplished with special keystroke sequences that begin with the lt ESC gt ape key Depressing this key signals the editor that a special function is being
19. f SD Attempts or suc cess at breaking the encryption publication of the results of such attempts or successes or copying storage or use of such a file in clear text form will be treated as theft of a trade sec ret and prosecuted as such POSSESSION OR USE OF THIS MANUAL OR THE SOFTWARE IT DESCRIBES CONSTITUTES AGREEMENT BY THE USER TO THESE TERMS kik kk k ki kk kk kk ki kk kik kk k kk kk kk kk kk kk kk kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk This manual and the software it describes are the copyrighted property of Software Dynamics TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION I INTRODUCTION SEDIT AN EASY TO USE SCREEN OPERATION OVERVIEW SECTION II GENERAL COMMANDS SEDIT COMMANDS e s s SECTION III SINGLE KEYSTROKE INSERT ME lt RETURN gt lt TAB gt 0 0 lt CONTROL H gt lt CONTROL L gt lt CONTROL K gt lt CONTROL J gt lt CONTROL E gt lt CONTROL X gt lt CONTROL F gt lt CONTROL R gt e e e e e Ld e e a e e e e LEFT ARROW RIGHT ARROW UP ARROW DOWN ARROW ERASE TO END OF CANCEL LINE SECTION IV SPECIAL COMMANDS lt ESC gt lt RETURN gt e e lt ESC gt lt UP ARROW 2 o lt ESC gt lt DOWN ARROW gt lt ESC gt lt LEFT ARROW gt lt ESC gt lt RIGHT ARROW gt lt ESC gt lt DIGIT gt lt DIGIT gt lt ESC gt
20. ful when one needs to remember a particular place in the text go inspect something else and then move the editor s attention back to the particular place lt ESC gt lt Period gt This command is used in conjunction with lt ESC gt lt Minus gt and lt ESC gt R to effect a textual cut and paste function It simply marks a point in the text window which is used later by lt ESC gt lt Minus gt If the window is moved down the old file causing the marked place to move out of the window the marked place is lost Moving or changing text in the window above the marked point causes the marked point to be forgotten The marked place can also be used to specify the beginning of a region of text to be justified see lt ESC gt J lt ESC gt lt Minus gt This command is used with lt ESC gt lt Period gt to effect a textual cut or deletion of a large block of text First lt ESC gt lt Period gt is used to mark a point in the text buffer which is the beginning of the region to be deleted or moved then the cursor is positioned to the character beyond the end of the text region desired At this point lt ESC gt lt Minus gt is depressed SEDIT will remove the text between the selected limits from the file and the CRT display The deleted text is saved for use by lt ESC gt R If the text block deleted is large SEDIT will use a disk file DELETED TMP to store the deleted text The the last block of deleted text is always placed in DELE
21. is to be invoked All other keys except lt ESC gt ape are illegal and will echo lt BEEP gt if depressed If lt ESC gt ape is depressed the keystroke following the lt ESC gt ape is used to select from a set of special functions The section special commands below lists all the legal special functions and describes their actions any lt ESC gt ape keystroke sequence not listed causes lt BEEP gt to be echoed and the lt ESC gt ape keystroke sequence is ignored The character immediately following the lt ESC gt ape keystroke is treated as upper case if it is a lower case letter Commands which are not defined i e most control characters and unused letters following lt ESC gt ape or which cannot be executed for some reason cause SEDIT to echo lt BEEP gt Whenever the editor echoes lt BEEP gt as a response to a command the next keystroke entered by the operator will be interpreted as an editor command C 1988 Software Dynamics 4 06 25 81 SEDITV1 2 SEDIT USER S MANUAL SECTION III Single Keystroke Commands Single Keystroke Commands Insert Me The keystroke hit is inserted into the text where the cursor indicates any text to the right is moved right to make room and the cursor is moved right one character to prepare for another Insert Me command If the cursor is at the right side of the screen a lt BEEP gt will be echoed the editor cannot insert and display the character and the command will be ignored
22. l bug Heaven forbid in SEDIT is uncovered In either circumstance SEDIT displays the message Editor Failure Error xxxx nnnn hhhh SEDIT attempts to complete copying the old file into lt FILENAME gt TMP before giving up entirely Generally the edited text is preserved intact although it is not saved in the proper file Simply renaming files can solve this problem The operator should check error code XXXx against standard SDOS error messages Error 1915 Disk Full is the most common error encountered not caused by SEDIT Other errors should be examined by knowledgeable people those that cannot be easily understood should be treated as BUGs and reported to Software Dynamics along with the information printed at the Editor failure message C 1989 Software Dynamics 17 06 25 81 SEDITV1 2
23. nce of the find string past to the right or below the cursor in the text window note that trailing blanks in the find string ARE significant An instance of the find string exactly under the cursor is ignored If the desired string is found the page of text around the string is displayed and the cursor positioned to the first character of the found occurrence If the desired string cannot be found in the text window the editor lt BEEPS gt and the cursor is not moved searching past the end of the text window is accomplished by use of lt ESC gt N Note that when searching for a find string character cases must match exactly If the repeat count is l see lt ESC gt lt digit gt an anchored search is performed SEDIT will only look for the find string at the beginning of a line lt ESC gt A and lt ESC gt N will perform an anchored search only if the lt ESC gt F command was specified as an anchored search lt ESC gt H This command causes the editor to display a short command summary The operator must hit lt ESC gt to continue editing lt ESC gt J This command justifies text between the selected distinguished point see lt ESC gt lt Period gt and the cursor location between the cursor location and the next paragraph break if no distinguished point has been established to force it to fit within the specified margin boundaries Lines that are too long are broken off at the rightmost blank that does not exceed
24. nderline is used to designate a particular character in the window At any time SEDIT displays a CRT screenful of text around the current location of the cursor All editing occurs at the position specified by the current cursor location Editor commands allow the cursor to be moved up one line on the screen down one line to the right one character and to the left one character This movement of the cursor designates a different character in the window By repeated application of commands to move the cursor it may be positioned anywhere on the screen a repeat key is very helpful here Attempting to move the cursor off the bottom or top of the displayed screen will cause the CRT to roll the currently displayed text up or down one line respectively allowing the operator to display any block of lines that will fit on the CRT screen note that the cursor always stays on the CRT screen Note moving the cursor implicitly moves the editing context to the character shown underneath the cursor C 1989 Software Dynamics 96 25 81 SEDITV1 2 SEDIT USER S MANUAL SECTION I Introduction Other SEDIT commands allow the cursor to be moved up or down as many times as there are lines on the CRT screen this selects and displays the next or the screen of text in the window To insert new text the cursor is positioned in the window at the place where text needs insertion then the desired text is simply typed SEDIT will move characters to the righ
25. r program source files It is fundamentally a what you see is what you get editor and as such is suitable for use by both novice computer users and old computer hands It takes about an hour of training time for a novice to become reasonably proficient with SEDIT Operation Overview This section gives a rough idea of what operation of the screen editor is like The section SEDIT Commands gives detailed descriptions of all editor functions and some simple examples The operator selects a text disk file to be modified the ola file SEDIT essentially makes a new disk file containing the text from the old file plus whatever changes insertions deletions and movements of text that the operator specifies creation of a totally new text file is accomplished easily if one simply treats the old file as one containing no text SEDIT establishes a window in which editing may occur Text is copied from the front of the old file to fill the window The window may be moved down the old file as it does new text from the old file is added to the bottom of the window When the window becomes overly full text is taken from the top of the window and written sequentially at the end of the new file The window is moved down the entire old file to copy text to the new file l All changes insertions deletions and text movement are performed by the operator only on the window contents A cursor a solid blotch blinking character or movable u
26. t as needed to make room for the newly inserted text Keystrokes which cause insertion are all keystrokes with visible printed representations i e to 9 A thru Z punctuation etc spaces and carriage returns A carriage return will cause a new line to be formed Note that even though a carriage return has no visible representation a character slot in the window is reserved to hold it If a mistake is made while inserting new text the lt RUB gt out or lt DEL gt ete key can be used to erase it Pressing rubout causes the character immediately to the left of the cursor location to be deleted from the text The cursor will be moved to the location occupied by the deleted character If the cursor is at the left side of the screen the carriage return character of the previous line will be deleted and the previous line and the current line will become a single line lt RUB gt out can also be used to delete unwanted text by positioning the cursor to the right of the unwanted text and pressing lt RUB gt out as many times as needed However another method can be used The cursor can be positioned on top of the leftmost character to be deleted and lt Control U gt depressed This will delete the character UNDER THE CURSOR Characters to the right will be shuffled left to fill the gap thus leaving the cursor over the character which was immediately to the right of the character that was deleted Repeating lt Control U gt will th
27. the cursor is at the right hand side of the screen a lt BEEP gt will result and the cursor will not be moved lt Control K gt Up Arrow This causes the cursor to be moved up the screen by one CRT line If the cursor is at the top of the screen the screen is rolled down one line and the previous line in the window is displayed as the top line of the screen If the cursor is logically at the top of the window it is moved to the top left hand corner If the cursor is in the top left hand corner SEDIT echos a lt BEEP gt and the cursor is not moved lt Control J gt Down Arrow This cause the cursor to be moved down the screen by one CRT line If the cursor is at the bottom of the screen the screen is rolled up one line and the next line from the text window is displayed as the bottom screen line If the bottom of the text window is reached another line is fetched from the old file and appended to the bottom of the window SEDIT will make room for a new line by moving a screenful of text from the top of the window to the end of the new file once this happens the operator may not go back and edit the screenful that was moved without exiting SEDIT and re entering If no more lines of text are available from the old file SEDIT lt BEEP gt s but does not move the cursor C 1988 Software Dynamics 6 06 25 81 SEDITV1 2 SEDIT USER S MANUAL SECTION III Single Keystroke Commands lt Control E gt Erase to End of line This key c
28. the margin lines that are too short are filled to the maximum that does not exceed the right margin lt ESC gt K This command is used to delete one or more lines of text lt ESC gt K by itself will delete text starting at and to the right of the current cursor location up to and including the lt RETURN gt character that ends the current line If the cursor is at the left side of the screen then the entire line is deleted Specifying a repeat count see lt ESC gt lt Digit gt causes the specified number of lines to the right of as well as below the position of the cursor to be deleted Lines below the line s deleted are moved up to C 1988 Software Dynamics 12 06 25 81 SEDITV1 2 SEDIT USER S MANUAL SECTION IV Special Commands fill the gap The deleted text is saved for use by lt ESC gt R for more detail on where the deleted text is stored see lt ESC gt lt Minus gt lt ESCON This command causes the editor to locate the Next occurrence of the find string an occurence of the find string exactly under the cursor when the command is invoked is ignored This command will cause the editor to move the text window down the file if the find string cannot be found in the current window If the desired string is eventually located the editor will display the page of text containing the string and position the cursor to the first character of the found occurrence If no occurrence of the find string is located
29. used primarily for two purposes moving a block of text and replicating a block of text To move a block of text the block is first located and deleted using lt ESC gt K or lt ESC gt lt Minus gt the cursor is moved to the desired location for the text block and lt ESC gt R performed If the insertion point is below the deletion point the operator can then move down the file until the insertion point is located and restore the text Since the text window moves down through the old file the process of deleting the desired block may leave the cursor sufficiently C 1988 Software Dynamics 13 06 25 81 SEDITV1 2 SEDIT USER S MANUAL SECTION IV Special Commands far past the desired insertion point that the insertion point has been moved out of the text window and into the new file In this case exiting lt ESC gt X will leave the block of deleted text in the file DELETED TMP so that upon re entering SEDIT the block of text may be restored anywhere within the file The operator can then easily go forward to the insertion point The second use is replicating a text block To do this the desired block is deleted and then immediately restored This leaves the original text intact then the deleted text can be inserted as many times as desired by simply positioning the cursor properly and doing a restore A rare third use is the insertion of text from an already existing file To do this the text to be inserted must be copied
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