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/*==========================================================================
* \__________/ Copyright 1988-90 Jean-Michel Forgeas & The Software Winery.
* \ / All Rights Reserved. This program may not be distributed
* \ / without the permission of the author:
* \ / Jean-Michel Forgeas
* \ / 4 rue du Général Leclerc
* || 95210 Saint-Gratien FRANCE
* || Contact The Software Winery at :
* || BBS : +33 (1) 39 55 84 59 (V23 Videotex)
* || MAIL : c/o Alain DIDIERJEAN 69 rue Dunois
* || 75646 Paris cedex 13 FRANCE
* ====== INTERNET: rouaix@inria.inria.fr or groult@ibp.fr
*==========================================================================
*/
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|| ||
|| AZ : Summary ||
|| -version # : 1.50 (06-Feb-90)- ||
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A WORD OF WARNING ..................................... 26
1- INTRODUCTION .......................................... 41
1.1- Technics : ...................................... 53
1.1.1- multi-Windows : ............................ 55
1.1.2- multitasks : ................................ 60
1.1.3- AZ code is shared and reentrant : .......... 69
1.2- Ergonomy : ...................................... 76
1.2.1- basic informations : ....................... 78
1.2.2- basic commands : ........................... 84
1.2.3- redundancy of commands : ................... 88
1.3- Limits : ........................................ 99
1.4- Variations : .................................... 105
1.4.1- the big version : .......................... 109
1.4.2- the short version : ........................ 114
2- INSTALLATION .......................................... 126
2.1 the big version : ................................ 131
2.2 the short version : .............................. 136
3- STARTING AZ ........................................... 142
3.1- Options : ....................................... 145
3.1.1- option -a : ................................ 147
3.1.2- option -b : ................................ 153
3.1.3- option -cn : ............................... 158
3.1.4- option -d : ................................ 163
3.1.5- option -e : ................................ 171
3.1.6- option -fn : ............................... 181
3.1.7- option -i : ................................ 189
3.1.8- option -k : ................................ 195
3.1.9- option -l : ................................ 202
3.1.10- option -m : ............................... 207
3.1.11- option -o : ............................... 223
3.1.12- option -p : ............................... 229
3.1.13- option -r : ............................... 247
3.1.14- option -s : ............................... 257
3.1.15- option -tc : .............................. 264
3.1.16- option -x : ............................... 271
3.2- From the CLI : .................................. 277
3.2.1- the command line : ......................... 279
3.2.2- no use to "Run" : .......................... 290
3.2.3- "Resident" forbidden : ..................... 295
3.3- From the WorkBench : ............................ 306
3.3.1- launching AZ : .............................. 308
3.3.2- passing parameters : ........................ 315
3.3.3- icons : .................................... 324
4- FILE HANDLING ......................................... 330
4.1- New : ........................................... 337
4.2- Open : .......................................... 342
4.3- Load Binary : ................................... 347
4.4- Save : .......................................... 355
4.5- Save as : ....................................... 364
4.6- Cur Dir : ....................................... 370
4.7- Erase : ......................................... 376
4.8- Quit : .......................................... 380
5- THE WINDOW ............................................. 387
5.1- The Title Bar : ................................. 390
5.1.1- a window close gadget : .................... 396
5.1.2- a cursor line position indicator : ......... 404
5.1.3- a cursor column position indicator : ........ 408
5.1.4- ASCII code : ............................... 411
5.1.5- a character creation mode indicator : ....... 415
5.1.6- a search case sensitivity indicator : ....... 420
5.1.7- the full path and name of the file in the window :426
5.1.8- the flag "(modified)" : .................... 431
5.1.9- an iconify gadget : ........................ 435
5.1.10- a window size toggle gadget : ............ 438
5.1.11- a pair of standard depth gadgets. .......... 444
5.2- Showing text : .................................. 447
5.2.1- fonts : ..................................... 449
5.2.2- colors : ................................... 464
5.2.3- the screen : ............................... 479
5.3- Scrolling text : ................................ 491
5.3.1- Sliders : .................................. 493
5.3.2- Menu "Tools/Go To Line" : .................. 514
5.3.3- Scrolling as the cursor moves : ............. 519
5.3.4- Scrolling while selecting a block : ....... 524
5.3.5- Using arrow keys to scroll : ................ 529
5.4- Iconifying the window : ......................... 537
5.4.1- definition : ............................... 543
5.4.2- colors : ................................... 547
5.4.3- How to iconify a window : .................. 552
5.4.4- position : ................................... 558
5.4.5- back to a working size : ................... 564
6- THE KEYBOARD .......................................... 574
6.1- Characteristic : ................................ 577
6.1.1- The <Return> key : ......................... 581
6.1.2- The <Enter> key : .......................... 594
6.1.3- The <Alt> <Tab> key combination : .......... 598
6.1.4- The <shift> <Tab> key combination : ........ 601
6.1.5- The <shift> <Del> key combination : ........ 604
6.1.6- The <Ctrl> <Del> key combination : ......... 613
6.2- The Keymap : ..................................... 618
6.3- Moving the cursor : ............................. 629
6.3.1- With the mouse : ........................... 631
6.3.2- With the keyboard : ......................... 635
6.4- The function keys : ............................. 646
6.4.1- The <Help> keys : .......................... 650
6.4.2- <F1> "Insert File" : ........................ 655
6.4.3- <F2> "Save Selected" : ...................... 660
6.4.4- <F3> "New Window" : ........................ 665
6.4.5- <F4> "Copy" : ............................... 669
6.4.6- <F5> "Paste" : .............................. 673
6.4.7- <F6> "Find" : ............................... 677
6.4.8- <F7> "Go To Line" : ........................ 681
6.4.9- <F8> "Iconify" : ........................... 685
6.4.10- <shift> <F8> "Switch Size" : .............. 688
6.4.11- <F9> "Save" : ............................. 691
6.4.12- <F10> "Save and Quit" : ................... 694
7- EDITING AND USING BLOCKS .............................. 699
7.1- Selecting a block : ............................. 708
7.1.1- with the mouse : ........................... 710
7.1.2- using the keyboard : ....................... 727
7.1.3- using the menu : ........................... 734
7.2- Deleting a block : .............................. 738
7.3- Paste : ......................................... 749
7.4- Copy : .......................................... 755
7.5- Cut : ........................................... 760
7.6- Clone Line : .................................... 766
7.7- Join Lines : .................................... 771
7.8- Mode Ins/Repl : ................................. 777
7.9- Select Word : ................................... 784
7.10- Select All : ................................... 789
7.11- Copy From File : ............................... 794
7.12- Paste To File : ................................ 799
7.13- Print Selected : ............................... 804
7.14- Send Selected : ................................ 812
7.14.1- CR : ...................................... 819
7.14.2- LF : ...................................... 822
7.14.3- CRLF : .................................... 825
7.14.4- SUITE : ................................... 828
7.14.5- ASIS : .................................... 848
7.15- Undel Block : .................................. 855
7.16- Moving sideways a whole block : ............. 862
8- SEARCHING ............................................ 869
8.1- Find : ......................................... 875
8.2- Find Selected : ................................ 883
8.3- Find Next : .................................... 890
8.4- Find Back : .................................... 896
8.5- Exchange : ..................................... 902
8.6- Exchange Selected : ............................ 922
8.7- Exchange Next : ................................ 936
8.8- Exchange Back : ................................ 942
8.9- Exchange All : ................................. 947
9- TOOLS : .............................................. 953
9.1- Iconify : ...................................... 956
9.2- Go To Line : ................................... 962
9.3- New Window : ................................... 967
9.4- Insert Hex : ................................... 972
9.5- To Front Screen : .............................. 982
9.6- Switch Case : .................................. 989
9.7- Execute Block : ................................ 995
9.8- Match [] {} () : ............................... 1004
9.9- Match All Text : ............................... 1010
10- MISCELLANEOUS ......................................... 1017
10.1- The Requesters : ............................... 1020
10.1.1- The warnings : ............................ 1026
10.1.2- From the keyboard : ....................... 1049
10.2- Tricks : ....................................... 1057
10.2.1- Another font : ............................ 1062
10.2.2- Exchange blocks : ......................... 1068
10.2.3- Remember : ................................ 1080
10.3- Known bugs : ................................... 1094
10.3.1- "Load Binary" : ........................... 1096
10.3.2- Null characters : ......................... 1104
10.4- AZ future : .................................... 1113
10.4.1- An AREXX interface : ...................... 1118
10.4.2- A FontRequester : ......................... 1122
10.4.3- A config. file ............................ 1125
10.4.4- Rectangular blocks ........................ 1127
10.4.5- Option "Interlace" ........................ 1129
10.4.6- IFF : ..................................... 1131