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From: utoddl@ecsvax.UUCP (Todd M. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Faking input for Ed
Keywords: Ed, front end
Message-ID: <6911@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 1 May 89 21:12:36 GMT
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Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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I've been playing around with this crazy idea of sending input
into Ed from another program.  This would let me creat macros, etc.
for use with Ed.  (I know i could use ARexx and some other editors
to do this better, probably, but I first thought of this about 
2 years ago and the idea just wont go away.)  
   How would I go about it?  I can find open Ed windows on the screen.
Would I just send his IDCMP some faked messages, or is it more complicated
than that?  I wish I'd never thought of this.  
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