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From: blaine@worsel.UUCP (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: CygnusEd questions
Message-ID: <0665.AA0665@worsel>
Date: 29 Jul 89 03:06:42 GMT
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I bought CygnusEd Professional a couple of weeks ago, and I've got a few
questions about it.

1) Why does CED trash the Script protection bit? Am I doomed forever to
   editors that are unaware that 1.3 has been released? When can an upgrade
   be expected to fix this bug?

2) Is there any way to keep the file requester from listing useless devices?
   It isn't a whole lot of use to have NULL: PIPE: AUX: SPEAK: CNX: CND:
   PIP: and NEWCON: taking up space in the file requester when they are not
   filesystem devices and contain no files that could be edited. I'd much
   rather have S: DEVS: and other assigns listed like the ARP file requester
   does. 

   Also, is there any way to tell the CED file requester that FF0: FF1: and
   FF2: are hard drive partitions and it should replace the "?" with its
   cute little hard drive icon?

3) Is there any way to remap the arrow keys to so that Shift-Arrow moves a
   WORD instead of beginning/end of LINE? Both Conman and TxEd have
   conditioned me to think that this is the way that "THINGS SHOULD BE". 

4) Can CED be made to save multiple backups (again like TxEd)? Sure it
   wastes disk space, but it's mine to waste. I deep sixed a file by saving
   it under the wrong name, and I didn't have my safety net to fall on.  :-(

5) Does anyone have some whizzy Arexx macros or CED configurations they'd
   care to share? There's a lot to this editor, and any help learning its
   tricks would be appreciated.

6) Can SnipIt be made to work with CED? Anything I cut from the CED screen
   comes out as garbage.

All in all, I've got to agree with all the rave reviews that CygnusEd Pro
has received. It's an impressive piece of work, and the column block move is
great! I do have one complaint (what, another one? :-) that I haven't seen
mentioned in any review: there is no index in the manual, only a table of
contents. An index would be a real help.


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