Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Sedt Users Guide Screen EDiTor Version 2.0 Sedt is an interactive "what you see is what you get" editor for VAX/VMS and the Rainbow 100 under CP/M version 2.0 or MS/DOS version 2.05. Sedt key definitions are soft and can easily be redefined to suit personal preferences. For compatibility Sedt is distributed with key definition files that implement sub/supersets of EDT and Gold keypads. Sedt is not just a reimplementation of EDT, but contains a great number of extentions and offers a superior level of performance. EDT compatibility is designed to offer easy transition to Sedt. Most users choose to use Sedt on all operating systems. Sedt has been integrated under ALL-IN-1 V.1, Mail, Nmail and, of course, DCL. Although Sedt is not designed as a word processor it contains most word processor functions that can be implemented without imbedding tokens. Sedt implements sophisticated text fill/justification and automatic margin control. With a post processor such as TXTF or Runoff Sedt will satisfy almost anybody's word processing requirements. Page 1 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Getting Started Sedt is called with the command line: SEDT {} {} {-} {-j} {-e} {-b} and are optional file names. If only one file name is given, it will be assigned to both the input and output files. Sedt will read the input file into buffer number 0 and set the default output for buffer number 0 to the output file. is an optional line number at which Sedt will position the cursor after loading the input file. -j will disable the generation of a journal file when editing. The journal file is automatically invoked if it exists when a new file is edited. -j will typically be used to improve performance when editing from a floppy disk. -e will make Sedt terminate files written with a Control Z (SUB). This is used to generate files for applications that require this terminator. -b will disable the generation of a backup file when writing files. This is typically used when editing with limited disk space available. This is not encouraged because you can end up with no file at all if disk space runs out before the write is completed. The initialization sequence for Sedt is as follows: On non-PC versions determine the terminal type. Load the input file and display the file on the screen. Load a key definition file (CP/M and MS/DOS: Sedtkeys.Txt. VMS: Sedt$Keys:). Sedt will abort if it cannot find the key definition file. Load a default ruler file (CP/M and MS/DOS: Ruler0.Txt. VMS: Sedt$Dir:Ruler0.Txt). If no default ruler file is found, Sedt will set up a standard ruler with tab stops at every 8 columns and margins at column 1 and column 80. If the user has supplied an optional Page 2 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 starting line number in the command line, Sedt will position the cursor at the specified line. Look for an initialization file on disk (CP/M and MS/DOS: Sedtcom.Txt. VMS: Sedt$Commands:). If the initialization file is found Sedt will read all the input in the file and execute them as basic Sedt commands. Look for a journal file with the same name as the input file except for the file extention .JOU. If the journal file is present Sedt will read all characters in the journal file as if they had been typed on the keyboard. Sedt will create journal files for all files edited and remove the journal files when the file is written to disk or the user quits the edit session. Journal files will not recreate the correct file if you have moved data between windows. Window changes and spawns to the operating system are disabled when recovering. Text is entered at the cursor position. Deletion of any character is done by placing the cursor to the right of the character and typing Delete. The cursor can be moved around the text by using the cursor keys. At the end of the session Gold F or Exit will save the file and exit from Sedt. Page 3 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Screen layout The Sedt screen is divided into a number of fields. It can display either one or two windows into your edit buffers. In single window mode the layout is as follows: The top line on the screen (in reverse video) is a status line. It shows you the contents and status of your current buffer. The first character on the status line indicates whether there have been changes to the file in the current edit buffer. An * indicates that changes have been made, a space that the file is unchanged. The second field indicates what the output file for the current buffer is. The contents of the buffer is initially the disk contents of the input file. The third field on PC implementations (Column=) tells you what column the cursor is positioned at. The third (fourth on PC implementations) field (Line=) tells you what line number in the buffer Sedt is positioned at, The final field (Buf=) tells you the number of the current buffer. The second line is the ruler line. It shows the current settings of left and right margins, the word wrap margin and the tab stop settings. L is the position of the left margin, W the position of the word wrap margin if fixed, A the position of the word wrap margin if automatic, R the position of the right margin with ragged right margin, J the position of the right margin with right justified margin, I the current indentation setting, and T tab stop settings. If a position marks several of the above it will only show one. The order of precedence is W/A over L over R/J over I over T. The next 20 lines are in normal video and display a window into the current buffer. All text is shown exactly as it is and how will be written to the file. The cursor is always on line 12 and shows the current position within the buffer. If a select region is active the region between the select point ant the cursor will be shown in reverse video. The 23'd, or second line from the bottom, is in reverse video and separates the text from the message line. This line contains status information. The first indicator shows the default direction for moves. The second whether typed characters Page 4 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 will be inserted or replace existing text. The last shows whether Sedt is currently learning keystrokes or executing a learned keystroke sequence. The 24'th, or bottom line, is the message line. It is used to display informational and error messages, and also for accepting command arguments. In two window mode a second status line is added on line 14. It has the same format as line 1 and shows the status of the buffer displayed in lines 15 through 22. The current buffer is displayed in lines 3 through 13. The Cursor position is always on line 8. Page 5 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Typing text Text is entered at the cursor position by typing the desired data. Text keys are all the printable ASCII characters plus Return and Space. All other keys cause either an error message or make Sedt execute a series of commands programmed into the key. Sedt supports the full multinational character set, either through compose sequences or through the country kits. Sedt can be in either replace or insert move. In replace mode typed text will overwrite existing text. In insert mode (the default) the existing text will be moved to make room for the typed. If a Tab character is replaced it will be expanded to spaces before the replacement. The effect of this is that text to the right remains unchanged. Replace/insert mode is toggled with Gold O and is indicated on the mode line. Tab will insert tab and space characters in the text and position the cursor at the indentation setting (indicated with an I on the ruler line) if it is to the right of the cursor, otherwise at the next tab setting on the ruler. Note that the tabs are soft tabs set by default at columns 9, 17, etc.! Sedt assumes that the hardware tabs are set at eight character intervals at the default positions. Using soft tabs means that text can be tabulated at any column independently of the hardware tab stops, and will print correctly on most printers. Return will insert an LF (ASCII 12) character in the text and place the cursor at the appropriate left margin. If you wish to search for a string including a new line insert an LF (F13 or ^J) in the search string. When the file is writtenm to disk the LF will be replaced by the correct line terminator for the operating system. Gold Keypad 0 will insert a new line in front of the current cursor position. No indentation will be done. To insert an arbitrary ASCII character enter Gold, the decimal value of the character and Gold Keypad 3. Typing Escape twice, or F11, will insert an escape character in the text. If the end of line is to the right of the physical screen margin, Sedt will display a reverse video > in the rightmost column. Page 6 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Commands Commands are coded into ASCII control characters and the function keys on the keyboard. PF1 (Gold) has a special meaning. It does not cause any commands to be executed, but modifies the effect of the next key to be typed. When in this text the term Gold is used before a key it means that you have to type PF1 before typing the key. Gold also causes the normal ASCII characters to be modified to execute Sedt commands instead of entering text. Some commands require arguments from the keyboard. These commands will prompt for the argument and wait for you to type it in. As you type the argument it is echoed at the end of the prompt on the message line. Argument entry is terminated by typing Return, Do or Enter. Mistakes can be corrected by moving the cursor with the Right and Left Arrow keys and deleting a character at a time with Delete (above Return) or inserting characters at the cursor position. The entire command can be cancelled by typing Control U. Most commands can be repeated by typing Gold, inputting the number of times the command should be repeated, and the key sequence for the command. While entering the number you see it echoed on the message line. Mistakes can be corrected by typing Rubout to delete a character. Entry of the number can be aborted by typing Control U. Most direction dependent commands can have the direction set by entering Gold + or Gold > for forward, or Gold - or Gold < for reverse before typing the key. After typing Gold + or Gold - you can enter a count exactly as described above. If you have entered a partial command but do not wish to continue, you can type one of the dead keys: Resume, Enter or Main Screen. Page 7 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Help To get help within an edit session type Gold H, Help or PF2. Sedt will display a help screen and ask you whether you want to see the next help screen. Typing Return will display the next help screen. Typing Space will return to the edit session. The help text is found in a disk file (CP/M and MS/DOS: Sedthelp.Txt. VMS: Sedt$Help:). If the help file cannot be found an error message will be displayed. Return or Next Screen will move you forward through the help screens. Backspace or Prev Screen wil move you backward, and space or Exit will return to the edit session. Page 8 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Moving The most simple moving commands to use are the arrow keys. Left arrow moves the cursor one character backwards in the text. Right arrow moves one character forward in the text. Up arrow moves one line up and attempts to keep the cursor at the same relative position within the line. If the line is too short the cursor will be positioned at the end of the line. If the character at the previous line has a representation longer than one character (Tab or other control characters) the cursor will be positioned at the end of the representation. Down arrow works as up arrow, but moves one line down. Previous Screen moves 10 lines up the text and places the cursor at the start of the line. Next Screen moves 10 lines down in the text and places the cursor at the beginning of the line. Gold T moves the cursor to the top of the text. Gold B moves the cursor to the bottom of the text. More complicated moving commands are: Backspace (F12) Moves to the previous beginning of line * Find Moves to the next occurrence of the current search string. * Keypad 0 Moves to the next beginning of line. * Keypad 1 Moves one word. * Keypad 2 Moves to the next end of line. * Keypad 3 Moves one character. * Keypad 7 Moves one page. * Keypad 8 Moves one paragraph. * PF3 Moves to the next occurrence of the current search string. * Gold Find Moves to the next occurrence of the current search string which is entered as a command argument on the message line. Entering an empty argument causes Sedt to use the old search string. Gold Up Arrow Moves to the top of the text. Gold Down Arrow Moves to the end of the text. Page 9 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Gold Keypad 4 Moves to the end of the text. Gold Keypad 5 Moves to the start of the text. * Gold PF3 Moves to the next occurrence of the current search string which is entered as a command argument on the message line. Entering an empty argument causes Sedt to use the old search string. Keypad 4 Causes commands marked by * to move backwards in the text. Keypad 5 Causes commands marked by * to move forward in the text. Gold Left Arrow Scrolls continuously up through the text until a key is typed. Gold Right Arrow Scrolls continuously down through the text until a key is typed. (Enter is dead key) To undo a move you type Gold U as the next command. Page 10 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Marks Marks are points in the text that you may want to return to. You can mark a point in the text by entering Gold, the number of the mark to be set, and Gold M. You can set mark number 1 by entering Gold M. To return to a mark you enter Gold, the number of the mark, and . (dot). You can return to mark 1 by entering Gold . (dot). Valid mark numbers are in the range 1 to 10. Page 11 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Deleting text The character immediatly before the cursor position may be deleted with Delete. The word immediatly before the current position may be deleted with Line Feed (F13). The line up to the current position may be deleted with Control U. The character after the current position is deleted with Keypad , (comma), the next word with Keypad -, and the next line with PF4. Gold Keypad 2 deletes up to the end of the current line. To delete arbitrary text move to one end of the text and enter either Select or Keypad ., then move to the other end of the text and enter either Remove or Keypad 6. PF4 will append the deleted text to the paste buffer. Gold Remove will move the text between the current position and the select point into the paste buffer, but will not delete the text. This command is useful for copying text from one position to another. The select point may be cancelled with Gold Keypad . (dot) or Gold Select. It is not necessary to delete a character to change it's case. Simply place the cursor over the character and enter Gold Keypad 1. If a select point is active the whole select range will change case, otherwise, if the last command was a search command the found string will change case. Page 12 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Undeletion Any deleted text can be undeleted until a similar type of text is deleted. Gold Keypad , (comma) undeletes the last deleted character, Gold Keypad - undeletes the last deleted word, and Gold PF4 undeletes the last deleted line. Insert Here or Gold Keypad 6 undelete the paste buffer which is filled with Remove, Gold Remove or Keypad 6. Page 13 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Search and substitute Gold Keypad 9 accepts a search and a substitute string and replaces the next occurrence of the search string with the substitute string. If an empty argument is entered either for the search or substitute strings the old values will be used. If the cursor is placed at the beginning of the search string the substitution will be done if this occurrence. Keypad 9 replaces the next occurrence of the current search string by the substitute string. If the cursor is placed at the beginning of the search string the substitution will be done if this occurrence. To undo a substitution type Gold U as the next command. Gold U will insert the search string exactly as you typed it after deleting the substitute string. Page 14 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Edit buffers Sedt can concurrently edit up to four different files. Each file is contained in a buffer. One of these is the current buffer on which all commands have effect. F17 to F20 change the current buffer. F17 makes buffer 0 the current, F18 buffer 1, F19 buffer 2, and F20 buffer 3. Whenever F17 to F20 are entered Sedt will change into two window mode with the previously current buffer contents displayed in the lower window and the current buffer in the upper window. If the current and previous buffer are the same the lower window will not reflect changes in the buffer unless the screen is refreshed with a Control W, which causes the two window contents to become identical. Page 15 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Windows Gold D will toggle between one and two window mode. The upper window always contains the current buffer and the lower window the previous buffer. Gold W will toggle between 80 and 132 column display format. Page 16 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Session control Gold F causes the current buffer to be written to it's output file. If all buffers have been written to disk Sedt will exit. If there are still unwritten buffers Sedt will ask you whether you intend to terminate the edit session without saving the buffers. Gold S is used to save the contents of the buffer in any file and continue the edit session. The filename is accepted from the keyboard. If no filename is entered the buffer is saved into the buffer's output file. Interrupt will save the contents of the buffer in the output file if any modifications have been made to the buffer. Gold E causes the current buffer to be loaded with a new file. If the current buffer holds an unsaved file Sedt will ask you whether you want to save the old file. If you confirm, Sedt will save the old file in the output file before loading the new file. Gold Q or Cancel will terminate the edit session if all buffers have been written to disk. If unsaved buffers exist Sedt will ask for confirmation before exiting. Gold Z clears the current buffer. Gold G will load the contents of a file into the current buffer at the current cursor position. Control W will refresh the screen. Page 17 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Word processing The basic text formatting commands allow Sedt to be used as a simple word processing system. The format is controlled with the ruler displayed on line 2 of the display. It is convenient to have commonly used rulers saved on disk, ready to be used by typing a 4 character sequence. For example, ruler 0 could contaiin a ruler with the margin at column 1, ruler 1 one with the margin indented one tab stop, ruler 2 with the margin indented two tab stops, and so on. Gold R allows you to change the ruler. The cursor will be positioned at the first column of line 2 after which you can modify the layout with the following commands. Right arrow Moves the cursor one character to the right. The column number can be read on the status line. Left arrow Moves the cursor one column to the left. - Removes a tab stop at the current position. Tab Moves to next tab stop Backspace Moves to column 1 T Inserts a tab stop at the current position L Sets the left margin to the current position. When a Return is entered the cursor will be indented to the left margin. R Sets the right margin to the current position. If the right margin is reached when entering text, a new line will be entered before the word being typed and the word will be indented to the word wrap margin. J Sets the right margin to the current position. If the right margin is reached when entering text, a new line will be entered before the word being typed and the word will be indented to the word wrap margin after adjustment of the text to the right margin. Page 18 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 W Sets the word wrap margin to the current position. W fixes the word wrap position. A Sets automatic margin control. The margin is always the leftmost non-blank position on the current line. I Sets the indentation at the current position. Space Removes all formatting controls at the current position. Digit Load saved ruler number digit. The rulers are saved in the directory defined by environment variable Sedt under MS/DOS and in the directory pointed to by the logical name Sedt$Dir under VMS. The name of the ruler file is RulerN.Txt where N if the number of the ruler. Gold Digit Save current ruler in saved ruler number digit. Return Returns from ruler definition mode to normal edit mode. If more than one ruler setting is commonly used, much time can be saved by storing the settings in rulers 0 through 9. Ruler 0 is loaded by default and any of the other rulers can be called up with four key strokes: Gold R Digit Return. Gold Keypad 8 will reformat from the current position to the end of the paragraph. Gold C will center the text on the current line between the left and right margins. Gold P will insert a page mark at the current position. Control P will print the current buffer on a file. The file name is prompted for. Gold _ will insert a - and a space and reformat the paragraph. This command is used if a hyphenation will improve the formatting of the paragraph. Control T will adjust the text within the select range by a tab stop. The direction of adjustment is determined by the current direction or by entering Gold + or Gold - before control Page 19 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 T. By using a count with Gold Digit ..., you can adjust by more than one tab stop. Gold Enter will swap characters. Place the cursor over the first character to swap. Typing Gold Enter will "pull" the character to the right of the next character. Additional Options will call the text formatting program TXTF to produce a formatted file of type .LST. TXTF is in the public domain and formats using wordstar type . commands. Page 20 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Margin Control The ruler line controls both left and right margins. Several options exist for controlling the margins. No margin control is done if L, W, R and I are set in column 1. Lines can be infinitely long and the cursor is always positioned in column 1 after a Return is typed. If L is set in a column different from 1 and W is set in column 1 a Return will cause Sedt to indent to the column defined by L. If I is set in a column different from 1 and the cursor is positioned to the left of the column a Tab will indent to the column defined by I. The left and right margin controls work as follows: W and R: When a non-blank character is typed to the right of R Sedt will insert a Return in front of the first word that extends to the right of R and indent to the W column. The effect will be that text will be filled between W and R. The fill command, Gold Keypad 8 will fill text from the current cursor position to the end of the current paragraph. Text to the left os W will be left unaffected. W and J: When a non-blank character is typed to the right of J Sedt will change the spacing between the current position and W so that spacing after punctuation characters will be exactly 2 and after non-punctuation characters will be 1. A return will then be inserted before the first word that extends to the right of J, after which spaces will be inserted between words until the right margin is justified to J. Finally the wrapped word will be indented to W. Text to the left of W will be left unaffected. A and R: When a non-blank character is inserted to the right of R a return will be inserted in front of the first word that extends to the right of R. The text after the return will be indented to the same level as the line just terminated. Page 21 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 A and J: When a non-blank character is typed to the right of J Sedt will change the spacing between all words to the left of the current position so that spacing after punctuation characters will be exactly 2 and after non-punctuation characters will be 1. A return will then be inserted before the first word that extends to the right of J, after which spaces will be inserted between words until the right margin is justified to the same level as the line just terminated. W to the right of, or at J/R: No filling or justification will occur. A to the right of or at J/R: When a Return is typed the cursor will be indented to the same level as the line just terminated. If the terminated line is empty the indentation level will remain unchanged. This mode is particularly useful for structured programming. Page 22 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Programming Control A will set the indentation level to the current column. Typing a Tab to the left of the indentation level will indent the cusor to the current level. Control D will decrease the indentation level and control E will increase it. The current indentation level is indicated on the ruler line with an I. If automatic margin control is in effect (an A is displayed on the ruler line) a return will make Sedt indent the cusor to the same level as the line just terminated. Indentation of text can be changed to a tab stop with the control T key, which will adjust the text either left or right by a number of tab stops. To adjust text to the next tab stop to the right enter Gold + control T. To adjust left type Gold - control T. If you desire to adjust by more than one tab stop type the number of tab stops to adjust after the Gold + or Gold -. Page 23 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Defining keys Control K will allow you to define keys differently from the default settings. When the Key: prompt appears type the key you wish to define. When the As: prompt appears type the definition of the key either by typing the sequence of command keys to be executed or by entering the basic Sedt commands. If the string is terminated with a . the key will take effect immediatly when typed, otherwise it will be stacked up for execution when a key with a . at the end of the definition is struck. Gold control I will insert a key definition into the current buffer. When the Key: prompt appears type the key you want to save the definition of. Gold control L will load the contents of the current buffer into a key definition. When the Key: prompt appears type the key you want to load the definition into. If you type Gold F17 Sedt will save subsequent keystrokes for reexecution later. The save is terminated by typing Control Z. To execute the saved sequence type Gold F18. Be sure you do not type Gold F18 while saving keystrokes. If you do this and execute the keystrokes later with Gold F18 Sedt will loop endlessly. You can enter a count as with other commands, but note that execution of learned sequences is not stopped on errors. Page 24 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Miscellaneous commands Gold Keypad 7 or Gold Do accepts a string of basic Sedt commands from the keyboard and executes them. Gold X will execute basic Sedt commands from a file. Sedt will prompt for the file name. Do will spawn an operating system command. Sedt will prompt for the command to be executed. Under VMS or MS/DOS an empty string will spawn to the command language interpreter. Upon return to Sedt you will be prompted for a character before the screen is refreshed unless you spawned to the command language interpreter. Gold F4 will load the paste buffer from a file. Sedt will prompt for the file name. Page 25 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Quick command guide Moving Control H (Backspace) Goto line start Gold . Goto mark Gold B Goto end of buffer Gold T Goto start of buffer F12(BS) Goto beginning of line Find Goto next occurrence of search string Prev Screen Go 10 lines up Next Screen Go 10 lines down Up Arrow Go 1 line up vertically Left Arrow Go 1 character back Down Arrow Go 1 line down vertically Right Arrow Go 1 character forward Keypad 0 Goto next line beginning Keypad 1 Goto next word Keypad 2 Goto next end of line Keypad 3 Goto next character Keypad 7 Goto next page Keypad 8 Goto next paragraph PF3 Goto next occurrence of search string Gold Find Goto next occurence of string Gold Up Arrow Goto start of buffer Gold Left Arrow Go backwards until key struck Gold Down Arrow Goto end of buffer Gold Right Arrow Go forward until key struck Gold Keypad 4 Goto end of buffer Gold Keypad 5 Goto beginning of buffer Gold PF3 Goto next occurrence of string Insertion Control I (Tab) Insert a tab character Control L Insert a form feed character Control M (Return) Insert a carriage return Escape (twice) Insert an escape character Gold G Include file at current position Gold O Toggle insert/replace mode Gold P Insert a form feed character F11(ESC) Insert an escape character Insert Here Paste Gold Keypad 0 Open line Gold Keypad 3 Insert ASCII character Deletion Control J (Line feed) Delete to beginning of word Control U Delete to beginning of line Rubout Delete previous character Page 26 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Gold Z Clear buffer F13(LF) Delete to beginning of word Remove Cut Keypad 6 Cut Keypad , Delete character forward Keypad - Delete word forward PF4 Delete line forward Gold Keypad 2 Delete to end of line Undeletion Gold Keypad 6 Undelete paste string Gold Keypad , Undelete character Gold Keypad - Undelete word Gold PF4 Undelete Line Miscellaneous Control A Set indentation level Control D Decrease indentation level Control E Increase indentation level Control K Define key Control P Print contents of buffer Control T Adjust select range by a tab stop Control W Refresh display Gold control I Save key definition in buffer Gold control L Load key definition from buffer Gold + Set direction for next command to forward Gold - Set direction for next command to reverse Gold < Set direction for next command to reverse Gold > Set direction for next command to forward Gold C Center line Gold D Toggle between one and two window mode Gold E Edit new file in current buffer Gold F Save current buffer and exit Gold H Help Gold M Set mark Gold O Toggle insert/replace mode Gold Q Exit without saving current buffer Gold R Enter ruler definition mode Gold S Save contents of buffer Gold U Undo last command if possible Gold W Toggle between 132 and 80 character screen Gold X Execute Sedt commands from file Gold _ Insert a hyphen and reindent paragraph F4 Append select range to paste buffer Interrupt Save contents of buffer Resume Dead key Cancel Quit without saving buffer Main Screen Dead key Exit Save buffer and exit Help Help Page 27 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Do Execute operating system command F17 Select buffer 0 F18 Select buffer 1 F19 Select buffer 2 F20 Select buffer 3 Select Set select point at current position Keypad 4 Set default direction forward Keypad 5 Set default direction reverse Keypad 9 Substitute next occurrence of search string Keypad . Set select point at current position PF2 Help Keypad Enter Dead key Gold F4 Load paste buffer from file Gold Do Execute Sedt command Gold F17 Load keystrokes into key until key pressed again Gold F18 Execute keystrokes loaded into key Gold Remove Load paste buffer from select range without deleting Gold Select Cancel select point Gold Keypad 1 Change case EDT style (Select range,found string,character) Gold Keypad 7 Execute Sedt command Gold Keypad 8 Fill or justify to end of paragraph Gold Keypad 9 Substitute one string by another Gold Keypad . Cancel select point Gold Keypad Enter Swap characters Page 28 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 Basic Sedt commands All Sedt functions are implemented by associating command strings with keys on the keyboard. The syntax and semantics of these command strings are given below. Typically, a standard keyboard layout will only implement a subset of the possible functionality. For complex editing functions it may be useful to enter the commands directly through using Gold Do or Gold Keypad 7. To understand the command struicture fully is it a good idea to study a keypad definition file. Contitional command execution: ^C() Execute commands in parentheses if the buffer has been modified since last save. ^C(|) Execute the first set of commands if the buffer has been modified since last save. Execute the second set of commands if the buffer has not been modified. ^E()() Execute the first set of commands. If an error occurs in this command string, execute the second set of commands. ^E()(|) Execute the first set of commands. If an error occors in this command string, execute the second set of commands. Otherwise execute the third set of commands. Command structure {+|-}{}:{} Performs an action within the editor {+|-}{}@{} Defines a range within the buffer Entities that are not command arguments cause the current position to move to the point defined by the entity. Entities preceeded by a - always work backwards from the current position. When preceeded by a + they always work forward from the current position. Unsigned entotoes work forward or backward depending upon the current direction. An entity working backward starts with the Page 29 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 character immediatly before the current cursor position. When working forward the entity includes the current cursor position. Count normally causes the command or entity to be repeated. A - causes the command or entity to work backwards in the buffer. A + causes the command or entity to work forwards in the buffer. Command sequences may be repeated by following a count with the commands to be repeated in parenthesis. If count is zero the command sequence will be repeated until an error occurs or :TI senses type ahead Entities @BB Top of buffer @EB End of buffer @EL End of line @C Character @F Start of next occurrence of @L Next beginning of line @M Point number . Point 0 is the select point @N Start of next occurrence of same search string @PAG Start of next page @PAR Start of next paragraph @SEN Start of next sentence @SR Select point @V Same position within next line @W Start of next word Commands :A Make entities default forward :B Make entities default backward :CC Change case within entity :CD Change to lower case within entity :CE Changes case EDT style. Select range if set, otherwise search string, else char :CH Insert character with ASCII value :CL Center text of current line :CM Call the top level menu (Not supported) :CU Change to upper case within entity :D Delete entity :EAP Delete entity and append to delete buffer Page 30 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 :FE Edit file named :FG Insert file named at current position :FS Save current buffer in file named :FX Execute basic Sedt commands in file :GE Get entity into delete buffer but do not remove from text :GAP Append entity to delete buffer but do not remove from text :H Display help message contained in SEDTHELP.TXT :I Insert at current position :K{G}{F|A}NNN Define key as G Gold F Function key A Ascii character NNN 3 digit decimal number :LD Decrease indentation by 1 :LD Decrease indentation by :LI Increase indentation by 1 :LI Increase indentation by :LK{G}{F|A}NNN Load key definition from current buffer G Gold F Function key A Ascii character NNN 3 digit decimal number :LNE{G}{F|A}NNN Execute keystrokes previously saved in key :LNL{G}{F|A}NNN Save subsequent keystrokes into key until key retypes :LS Set current column position as indentation :M Save current position in point 1 :M Save current position in point :NL Insert a new line character :NS Substitute using save object and target :OE Output error message and do normal error mandling :OL Open line :OM Output message on message line :OS Toggle replace/insert mode :PL Load the paste buffer from file named Page 31 Sedt Users Guide Version 2.0 :PR Print current buffer on devive LST: :PS Save the paste buffer in file named :REP Replace search string by contents of paste buffer :RF Refresh the screen :RL Change to ruler definition mode :RS Remove select point :SEL Save current position in select point :SK{G}{F|A}NNN Save key definition in current buffer G Gold F Function key A Ascii character NNN 3 digit decimal number :SL insert entity into search buffer :SUB