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    I was wondering if anyone has written anything in TPU as an extension to
Eve which would make Eve act like a very basic WYSIWYG editor?

    I have an application program which will display text files and this
program understands basic VTxxx escape sequences to do such things as bold,
underline, etc. Right now, it is somewhat painful to create these files since
the person creating the file must insert the various escape sequences
manually.  I have considered defining keys that insert the right codes - and
this would definitely be better - but what I really would like is to have Eve
interpret the code and show the word in reverse video, etc.  Right now, the
person has to save their file, get out of Eve and run the application program
to display the file just to figure out if they have all the bold codes, etc.
correct.  It would be so much nicer to have Eve do this.

    I did a little experimentation with the SET(TEXT,window,NO_TRANSLATE)
option and this does allow Eve to show the video attributes but then editing
the text lines containing the escape sequences is difficult because the cursor
movement and the text on the screen aren't in sync.

    Software version info: VMS 5.5-2 with VAXTPU V2.6.

    Has anybody attempted to do something like this using TPU? Any and all
ideas appreciated.  Thanks.

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Univ. of WI - River Falls
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