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Article #85Re: edt emulation
From: Tom Williams
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:19
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 18:19
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> I see no
> reason to have the user insert the search string into the buffer, only to yank
> it back out to the paste buffer destroying what is there. This really sounds
> like a kludge to me which I do not want to duplicate.
>
Agreed. I have been an EDT user for about 10 years now.
(Does that give me extra votes? :-) ) The first thing I did
was redefine Gold/Enter to be the nokeypad mode command
"(S/?'Old string: '/?' New string: '/)."
A couple of subtleties worth emulating: Search commands
perform an implicit SELECT (Set Mark) operation on the
search string if it's found, allowing the user to do a CUT
operation on it. Also, the change case (Gold-KP1) command
acts on either select range or, if no select range is
defined, the current character.
--
-Tom Williams
Computer Center Manager
Alderson-Broaddus College
WILLIAMS@AB.WVNET.EDU
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