TEACH VEDNOTES Aaron Sloman 30 Sep 1998
This is a set of notes on the most frequently required VED commands. See
HELP LOGICAL_KEYS, for information on VED function names. The file
TEACH USEFULKEYS gives a more elementary introduction, and is not as
comprehensive as this file.
CONTENTS - (Use <ENTER> g to access required sections)
-- There are several ways of controlling VED
-- ENTER COMMANDS AND KEYBOARD COMMANDS
-- File and window management
-- Search and substitute
-- -- Caseless search
-- -- Searching for a named procedure
-- Move the ved cursor
-- -- Going to a specified line:
-- -- Keyboard move sequences
-- Stacked positions
-- Marked range facilities
-- Common Key Sequences
-- Deleting text
-- -- ^K (Control-K) delete sequences
-- -- ^W, ^U shortcuts
-- Help facilities
-- Miscellaneous utilities
-- Reading or sending mail
-- Local to Birmingham
-- There are several ways of controlling VED --------------------------
1. Via ENTER commands: press the ENTER key (or Control G) then type the
command, then press RETURN. Warning: on some terminals (HP and PC) the
RETURN key (part of the main keyboard) is labelled ENTER. This is not
the real ENTER key, which is on the RIGHT hand edge, except on a Sun3,
when it is L10. There are very many ENTER commands available. Some are
shown below, many others in REF VEDCOMMS, HELP VEDSEARCH and a lot more
in other files. You can define your own ENTER commands when fluent in
Pop-11.
2. Using Function keys: We have produced a graphical keymap which should
work with most terminals running the X window system, as currently set
up at Birmingham for Poplog users. (If these facilities don't work you
may need to have your .Xdefaults file or your vedinit.p file fixed.)
See HELP XTERMKEYS
Should work on PCs, Suns, DEC Alphas.
3. Using keyboard short cuts based on Control keys and Escape sequences
as described below. A complete overview of the basic functions can
be found in
HELP VEDKEYS
You can define your own keyboard short cuts, when fluent in Pop-11, by
editing your vedinit.p file. See HELP VEDSET, HELP VEDSETKEY
4. Using VED menus (invoked via the "ENTER menu" command).
5. Using XVed. This takes longer to start up than "plain" VED, but
provides a separate window for each file, and has other facilities based
on the mouse. To run XVed you can type "xved" "xved <filename>" or
"pop11 %x" to Unix. You can limit the number of wnidows XVed creates by
putting something like this in your .Xdefaults file
XVed*MaxWindows: 6
(This will not limit the number of files you can have in the editor.)
See TEACH XVED, HELP XVED, REF XVED
-- ENTER COMMANDS AND KEYBOARD COMMANDS
Note concerning instructions of the form: "^A"
This means HOLD "CTRL" or "Control" button down WHILE pressing key A
Note concerning instructions of the form: "ESC a"
This means press AND RELEASE ESC key BEFORE pressing A key
-- File and window management -----------------------------------------
ENTER ved <file> ENTER name <file>
Get the file into VED Change current file to new name
ENTER r <file> ENTER rb
Merge <file> contents from disk "Rotate" buffers - if done
into current file. repeatedly you see all buffers
ENTER q ENTER bye or ENTER xx
Quit current file. (Also ESC q) Exit VED and Poplog
If file changed, asks for
confirmation
ENTER wq ENTER wqved <file>
Write, then quit current file Write and quit then VED <file>
ENTER deletefile ENTER cleanup
Delete the file from VED and Delete VED's "backup" versions
from the disk of the current file.
ENTER w ENTER w1
Writes (saves) all current Saves only the current file
files on the disk
ENTER wr <file> ENTER autosave 5
Writes the marked range to Change autosave interval to 5
the disk, in new <file> minutes
ENTER dired <pattern> ENTER purgefiles <pattern>
Can be used to browse sets of ENTER purgefiles
files. See HELP DIRED delete files matching pattern
but show them first.
^L refresh window ESC w set window size
ESC x Switch to previous window (not used in XVED)
ESC V Scroll other file up ESC ^V Scroll other file down
(Also ENTER xup) (Also ENTER xdn)
ESC e (get menu of current files) ESC q Quit this file
ESC F filecomplete (complete name of file left of cursor)
(Also ESC 3 in some installations.)
ENTER pwd ENTER files
Print Working Directory List files currently in VED
-- Search and substitute ----------------------------------------------
In the examples the string can be any sequence of characters. To end
with a space, repeat the "delimiter" after the space. See HELP VEDSEARCH
ENTER /string ENTER "string
ENTER \string ENTER `string
Search forward or backward Search forward or backward for
for the string the string, non-embedded
ENTER / ENTER \
ESC / ESC \
Redo last search, forward Redo last search, backward
Search patterns can include @a (start of line), @z (end of line) @? any
character. See HELP VEDSEARCH and TEACH REGEXP for more on patterns.
ENTER s/string1/string2/ ENTER gs/string1/string2/
ENTER s"string1"string2" ENTER gs"string1"string2"
Interactive search and replace. Global search and replace in
Using " ignores embedded strings. file. " means non-embedded
ENTER gsr/string1/string2 ENTER gsl/string1/string2
ENTER gsr"string1"string2 ENTER gsl"string1"string2
Global search and replace in Global search and replace in
marked range current line
Add "s" in front of global commands to make them "silent" or "swift",
e.g.
ENTER sgs, ENTER sgsr,
-- -- Caseless search
ENTER ss string ENTER bss string
Search forward for string Search backward for string
ignoring case ignoring case
ENTER ww string ENTER bww string
Search for non-embedded string Search back for non-embedded
i.e. "word" string
-- -- Searching for a named procedure
ENTER f name
Search for procedure called name defined in the current file
-- Move the ved cursor ------------------------------------------------
-- -- Going to a specified line:
ENTER 23 ENTER @a
ENTER 2 ENTER @z
Go to line 23, or line 2 Go to beginning or end of file
ENTER @+5 ENTER @m
ENTER @-5 ENTER @e
Go forward, backward 5 lines Go to start or end of range
-- -- Keyboard move sequences
^P charuP (Move up) ESC ^P charuPlots
^N chardowN ESC ^N chardowNlots
^B charleft (Backwards) ESC ^B charleftlots
^F charright ESC ^F charrightlots
^H (BackSpace)
charleft or delete current character.
^A screenleft ^E textright
ESC b wordleft ESC < topfile
ESC f wordright ESC > endfile
ESC v screenup ESC g markfind Goto range start
^V screendown ESC G endrange Goto range end
^A screenleft ^E textright
ESC ^E screenright ESC ^A textleft
LF (^J) Next line then left
-- Stacked positions --------------------------------------------------
ESC p ESC P
Save current position (pushkey) Restore stacked position
ESC s
Swap current and stacked position
See also ved_cut, and HELP VEDBLOCKS (manipulation of text blocks)
-- Marked range facilities --------------------------------------------
F1 (or ESC m) F2 (or ESC M)
Mark start of range Mark end of range
(Also use CTRL and middle mouse button in XVED)
ENTER d ENTER t
Delete marked range Transcribe (copy) marked range
ENTER y ENTER m
Yank back last deleted range. Move marked range
ENTER mi ENTER ti
Move range In - from other file Transcribe/copy range In
ENTER mo ENTER to
Move range Out - to other file Transcribe/copy range Out
ENTER smr ENTER crm
Sort range in alphabetical order Clear range mark
ENTER mbe ENTER mbf
Mark this file Beginning to End. Mark from beginning of file.
ENTER mcp ENTER mcm
Mark whole of current procedure. Mark Current Message
ENTER tidy ENTER jcp
Tidy marked range in program file Justify Current Procedure
ENTER j ENTER jj
Justify range-program or text file Right aline marked range
ESC j ESC J
Justify current para/procedure Right aline current para
ENTER imr ENTER wrapmr
Indent marked range Break long lines in range
ENTER lmr (or ^D) ENTER lcp (or ESC c)
Load compile a marked range Load Current Procedure
ENTER ltl
ESC d Load this line (loadline)
See also HELP MARK, HELP VED_BC, VED_BR, VED_BL,
-- Common Key Sequences -----------------------------------------------
(See keyboard maps for function keys)
^C interrupt processing ^G - the same as ENTER
ESC RETURN Re-do last command ESC ^G switch status/buffer
ESC o lineabove ESC O linebelow
(Only on some terminals)
^T ESC l
Transpose chars left of cursor ESC u
Change word to lower/upper case
ESC .
Change case of char under cursor
-- Deleting text ------------------------------------------------------
DEL or Delete Key delets char on left ^R dotdelete (del cuRrent char)
(Sometimes Backspace is also set to delete on left)
-- -- ^K (Control-K) delete sequences
(Undo by preceding ^ sequence with ESC)
^K ^B wordleftdelete ^K ^F wordrightdelete
^K ^A clearhead ^K ^E cleartail
^K ^K linedelete ^K ^D delete marked range
^K ^P ESC ^K ^P
ENTER cut: delete between stacked ENTER splice: re-insert
positions (See HELP ved_cut) after cut
-- -- ^W, ^U shortcuts
^W wordleftdelete ^U clearhead
-- Help facilities ----------------------------------------------------
ESC h ESC n
Get help on word to right ESC N
Find next or previous asterisk
ESC k ESC K
Show function of next key Show map for keyboard
(Not reliable)
-- Miscellaneous utilities --------------------------------------------
ENTER cal, ENTER cal 95, ENTER dounix
ENTER cal oct, ENTER cal jan 98 Do the unix shell command on
Get a calendar current line in VED buffer
ENTER unix <command> ENTER vman
Run the unix command, and get Browser for Unix "man" files
output into a temp file in VED (Often quicker than "man")
For manipulating arbitrary blocks of text see HELP VEDBLOCKS
-- Reading or sending mail --------------------------------------------
(see HELP ved_getmail, HELP send -- Birmingham only)
ENTER getmail ENTER tmh (See HELP VED_TMH)
Get your latest mail file Tidy mail header
(With an index to it)
ENTER nm ENTER tah
ENTER lm Tidy all mail headers
Go to Next or Last (previous) in current mail file
message in this file
ENTER mergemail ENTER nextmail
Merge current mail file with ENTER prevmail
previous one Get next or prev. mail file
ENTER mergemail N
Merge N files with previous one
ENTER sendmr ENTER send
Send marked range (must include Send WHOLE file. Beware
To: line.)
ENTER reply ENTER respond
ENTER Reply ENTER Respond
Prepare reply to sender only Prepare reply quoting original
or to everyone message (to one, or to all0
ENTER mcm ENTER mdir
ENTER ccm ENTER gm
Mark or clear (delete) current Create index to current mail
message file. Goto Message.
ENTER purgemail ENTER spell
Deletes backup mail messages Check spelling of current file
-- Local to Birmingham ------------------------------------------------
Use SHOWLIB VED_<name> or HELP VED_<name> to get more information
ENTER calc ENTER alias
Compute value of expression ENTER aliases
to right of cursor and insert Find email aliases
ENTER checkmail 120 ENTER names <string>
Check every 120 secs for new mail Find password file entries
containing <string?
ENTER gn (See HELP VED_GN) ENTER postnews
Get News (for reading netnews) Post news
ENTER latex (See TEACH VED_LATEX) ENTER xdvi
For running latex, dvips Run xdvi (Latex previewer)
ENTER latex print -Plw6 ENTER latex print ps
Print latex file on printer lw6 Save postscript version of file
ENTER psprint ENTER lpq
For printing to postcript printer Query printer status
See also ENTER lpr, ENTER lp (HELP lpr, HELP lp)
ENTER mem (See HELP VEDMEMFILE) ENTER gomem
Remember file and location Go to remembered file
ENTER mli, ENTER mlo ENTER tli, ENTER tlo
Move line in, or out Copy line in, or out
ENTER menu ENTER www (See HELP www)
Start up "toplevel" VED menu World wide web access from VED
ENTER procheader ENTER fileheader
Start up new documentation header Start up new header for
for current procedure current file
ENTER headers
Create temporary index file with
procedure headings in current file
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--- Copyright University of Birmingham 1998. All rights reserved. ------Author: Aaron Sloman 30 Sep 1998