src@cup.portal.com (03/07/88)
I just received QEdit 2.00 and like many of the new features very much. Unfortunately, some of the configurability that was available in previous versions has been removed. Losing the ability to disable the change in the cursor shape in Insert and Overwrite modes was particularly annoying. Annoying enough that I didn't want to wait for a possible reinstatement in a future version so I went digging into the program with DEBUG and came up with the following patch to disable cursor-shape modification: >debug q.com -a 23EA nop nop <Enter> -w -q The two NOP instructions overwrite the INT 10h call to change the cursor shape. Another problem I encountered was with the new DOS command which loads a new COMMAND.COM with the /C option. I've changed the dos switchar from slash (/) to dash (-) using the undocumented INT 21h, function 37h and all programs I've used that have this "execute DOS command from within the program" feature burp offensively when trying to use the "/C" option (ProComm comes immediately to mind). I dream of the day when software developers will get the current switch character before constructing and parsing command lines(sigh!). Fortunately, patching programs to work with -C has not been a big problem and QEdit was no different. >debug q.com -e A368 '-' -w -q The option "/c" is located at CS:A368. Simply change the slash to a dash. Finally, I have a question that I hope one of you fellow QEdit'ers out there can answer. When running QCONFIG / O)therstuff, the question "Prompt for filename on open window (Y/N)?" comes up. I haven't been able to figure out what this means. Has anyone else been able to? Steve Calwas src@cup.portal.com Santa Clara, CA ..!sun!cup.portal.com!src
jkr@pyr.gatech.EDU (J. Kenneth Riviere (JoKeR)) (03/07/88)
In article <3706@cup.portal.com> src@cup.portal.com writes: >Finally, I have a question that I hope one of you fellow QEdit'ers out >there can answer. When running QCONFIG / O)therstuff, the question "Prompt >for filename on open window (Y/N)?" comes up. I haven't been able to >figure out what this means. Has anyone else been able to? >Steve Calwas src@cup.portal.com >Santa Clara, CA ..!sun!cup.portal.com!src There is a Qedit command for splitting the screen into multiple "windows" for editing (by default this is assigned to ^oh). When you invoke this command it can either load the newly opened window with one of the files you are already editing or it can ask you for the name of a new file which is to be edited. If you wish to be asked for a new name then answer 'y' to that prompt and it will give you a prompt for a file name when you split the screen into multiple windows. J. Kenneth Riviere (JoKeR) ISA, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, GA 30332 Internet: jkr@pyr.gatech.edu Bitnet: iadt1kr@gitvm1 uucp: ...!{decvax,linus,rutgers,ihnp4,hplabs,seismo}!gatech!gitpyr!jkr Fidonet: JoKeR's BBS, 133/303, (404)894-5784, 5:30pm-8:00am M-F,24hrs weekends
pt0o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Percival Tieng) (03/15/88)
I've been hearing quite a bit about QEdit. Is it a PD program? If so, could someone please post the binaries to it? If not, can owners give me a price range for it ( eg. between 80 and 100 dollars ). Thanks