[Coco] ScrEd Manual Wanted ( I'm at work :)

Robert Gault robert.gault at worldnet.att.net
Fri Jul 30 23:30:55 EDT 2004


Paul T. Barton wrote:

> Thanks Robert,
> 
> All good except how to get out of edit mode.
> 
> Paul
> 
> --- Robert Gault <robert.gault at worldnet.att.net>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Paul T. Barton wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Folks,
>>>
>>>Please give me a pointer to the ScrEd Manual,
>>>I'm at work and want to try it again.
>>>I know it's in the DevPak docs (at home).
>>>
>>>I tried looking on RTSI, can't find it.
>>>
>>>
>>>Paul
>>
>>I've not seen this on line but there is not
>>much you need to start using 
>>scred. There needs to be a file termset in your
>>/dd/sys directory. Scred 
>>uses the information in termset to see the type
>>of terminal in use. 
>>There also needs to be the file  scred.help in
>>/dd/sys.
>>
>>The start options for scred can be found with  
>>scred -?
>>Syntax for scred is     scred [filename]
>>[-option]
>>Once scred is running in edit mode (which it
>>does automatically if a 
>>file is named)    ? ENTER     will bring up
>>on-line help for the Edit mode.
>>
>>There does not seem to be any on line help for
>>the Command mode. That's 
>>not much of a problem because most of the
>>commands are seldom used. The 
>>important ones are:
>>ol  filename ENTER        load existing file
>>ed  ENTER                 enter Edit mode
>>ne  filename ENTER        create a new file and
>>start editing it
>>wr  ENTER                 write out file; don't
>>leave scred
>>ex  ENTER                 write out file and
>>leave scred
>>ab  ENTER                 close file with no
>>changes; abandon
>>mo  ENTER                 gets more of your
>>file when it exceeds
>>                           30K; starts at the
>>Edit position
>>ch  ENTER                 replaces all
>>occurences of a string
>>                           great for removing
>>$0A from $0D0A lines
>>                ch
>>                string to find: ctrl-J  ?
>>                string to replace: ?
>>      and
>>                ch
>>                string to find: ctrl-J
>>                string to replace: space
>>      do the job.
>>
>>Try the above and if you need more information,
>>let me know.
>>
>>
>>-- 

Should be in on-line help for Edit mode. However, it is CTRL ESC as many 
times as is needed to escape the current function and reach command level.




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