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From: lea362@estevax_a.UUCP (Hr Lea Iain )
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: JOVE (Ver. 4.9)
Summary: Questions
Message-ID: <136@estevax_a.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 89 13:27:19 GMT
Reply-To: lea362@estevax_a.UUCP (Hr Lea Iain )
Organization: Siemens AG ESTE3, W-Germany
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  I have been using and evaluating the JOVE (Ver. 4.9) editor  for
the last few weeks on a Xenix 386 PC and a Vax DSD4.3 and am quite
pleased with the product.

  But i have a few questions to ask concerning a few of the commands :

  1)  I have defined, named and saved to a file a few keyboard macros
      (no problem), but when i try to  read the  macros from the file
      there is no command to do it. The manual states that the command
      read-macros-from-file should be used, but it does not seem to be
      implemented. Is this command implemented or is there an error
      between the product and its manual ?

  2)  On the Vax i have a Wyse wy85  terminal set to  emulate a vt100.
      I have  tried to  configure  the keyboard to my tastes and  have 
      been less than successful. I have tried to bind-to-key commands
      with the numeric keypad and also the four cursor keys. In respect
      to the cursor keys i have been able to use the Prefix-3 command
      in my .joverc file at startup. The problem as far as i can tell 
      is that the keypad and cursor keys seem to generate a 3 byte code
      instead of the normal 2 byte code. Has any one an idea how i can 
      use the keypad, cursor keys and function keys to execute commands ?

  3)  I wish to have a form of programming on-line help available. I
      have created a text file of the most popular 'C' commands i.e.
      
        int  ferror(stream);    FILE *stream

      and wish to be able to view a specified commands syntax easily.
      The simple way to do this is to use shell-command-with-typeout
      and then 'grep <command name> helpfile'. Considering that on-line
      help should be quick and easy to access the outlined solution 
      has fallen short in both respects. I would like to be able to 
      activate a help macro (or whatever solution) by just selecting
      the word that the cursor (point) is on i.e. cursor is in the 
      middle of the word 'read(' and it would list all the correct
      syntax for the 'C' command 'read'. Any suggestions ?

  4)  Has anyone written any interactive macros that use the command
      make-macro-interactive. If so could you please post or mail an
      example(s).

  5)  I have been tinkering with word abbreviations and would like to
      know if there is a limit to the number of abbreviations JOVE
      can handle. I entered over 150 and when i saved the abbreviations
      and later used some of them i found that only about 65-70 had 
      been saved. If there is a limit can it be changed ?

and finally !!

  6)  Has anyone used JOVE with the Clipper compiler (Dbase compatiable)
      and written any routines or macros to speed up & ease the
      development of large programs. Also has anyone written a 'tags'
      generator for the Dbase/Clipper language. Last but not least has 
      anyone converted the error messages from the clipper compiler to
      a form usable by the next-error / previous-error commands ?


  Any tips, code examples (macros & C) would be much appreciated.

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