Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!dogie.macc.wisc.edu!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!perry From: perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: CygnusEd questions Message-ID: <771@madnix.UUCP> Date: 3 Aug 89 20:02:40 GMT References: <0665.AA0665@worsel> Reply-To: perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz) Organization: ASDG Incorporated Lines: 110 In article <0665.AA0665@worsel> blaine@worsel.UUCP (Blaine Gardner) writes: >I bought CygnusEd Professional a couple of weeks ago, and I've got a few >questions about it. Thank you. >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? CygnusEd Professional Release is scheduled for release in September. It will honor the script bit. It will also load a file which is not write enabled as a read-only view (new feature). There are tons of new/improved features so read on. >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: Release 2 uses an entirely redone requester system. All requesters used by the program including one, two, and three valued requesters, the file and font requester and the color requester all come from a shared reentrant library which the authors will make freely distributable. Watch comp.sys.amiga for complete specifications soon. For example, the file requester opens at any screen resolution to match the screen it is opening on, has two completely independent scrolling lists (one for files, the other for devices), supports multiple selections, has hide and show wild-carding, can be keyboard driven and a whole lot more. Yes, you did read correctly above: font requester. CEDPro Release 2 supports alternate fonts to assist those, for example, with interlaced screens and flicker-fixers. >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". CEDPro Release 2 will allow macros to be bound to *any* key. You may even use the hard wired meaning of the key within the macro redefining the use of that key. >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. :-( CEDPro Release 2, in addition to its safe-saves feature, now supports single and multiple backups. Single backups will create a single backup file in T: which is overwritten with the newly saved file each time. Multiple backups creates a .bak file for every file that is saved. >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. We're hoping that others will share their work as well. We've added some features to help make integration in to various compiler/assembler envi- ronments easier. For example: CEDPro Release 2 now supports Jump-To-Byte so that Modula 2 compilers which produce error messages based upon byte offsets can be integrated easily. Second example: CEDPro Release 2 now promises to store a given file in contiguous memory terminated by a null. That means you can ask CEDPro where a source file is in memory, and compile or assemble it right from there. This will be supported in ArgAsm and is rumored to be support by Cape. >6) Can SnipIt be made to work with CED? Anything I cut from the CED screen > comes out as garbage. Probably because CEDPro doesn't use the system routines for rendering text when rendering Topaz 80. >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. Indexes are really hard - even with AmigaTeX - but we'll try again this time. Some other new features: Search and Replace mode is now 100 times faster than it used to be. Alternate fonts can be used (as mentioned above). Much improved ARexx interface. Much improved Macro capability. String requesters, for example, can now be driven from inside macros. The copyright notice now comes up only when you ask for it. Replace/Insert/WordWrap/Layout/Etc modes are now shown on the status line. Views can be read only. File protection bits are honored. Colors can be changed to anything you want when on a custom screen. Oh yeah, I almost forgot... There's now an unlimited per-view undo/redo feature. Nearly every editor command can be undone and redone as far bask as the beginning of your edit session (you choose how much memory to allocate for undo/redo). Find Matching Bracket now stays put insted of jumping back after a second. There's numerous other new features and improvements but I've touched on some of the main ones. Hope you like it! Perry -- Perry Kivolowitz, ASDG Inc. ARPA: madnix!perry@cs.wisc.edu {uunet|ncoast}!marque! UUCP: {harvard|rutgers|ucbvax}!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!perry CIS: 76004,1765 (what was that about ``giggling teenagers''?)