mario@wjvax.UUCP (Mario Dona) (10/09/90)
Editing on an IBM mainframe is such a pain, but sometimes that's all you
got. One of the most obvious things missing is a way to easily reformat
paragraphs written with the XEDIT editor. Has anyone figured out how to
reformat (re-align) the lines in a paragraph
so that they don't look this ugly?
Come to think of it... does anyone have a nice
set of EXECs to make life easier when working with XEDIT. My deepest
apprecication if you could share them with me.
Mario Dona
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The above opinions are mine alone and not, in any way, those of WJ.QQ11@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (10/13/90)
In article <1662@wjvax.UUCP>, mario@wjvax.UUCP (Mario Dona) says: > >Editing on an IBM mainframe is such a pain, but sometimes that's all you >got. One of the most obvious things missing is a way to easily reformat >paragraphs written with the XEDIT editor. Has anyone figured out how to >reformat (re-align) the lines in a paragraph >so that they don't look this ugly? > >Come to think of it... does anyone have a nice >set of EXECs to make life easier when working with XEDIT. My deepest >apprecication if you could share them with me. Hmmm, a nice set of execs, you need Eric Thomas' JUSTIFY package. I'll mail it to you unless there's a clamour from others :-) in which case I'll post it to comp.sources.misc. Alan Thew University of Liverpool Computer Laboratory Bitnet/Earn: QQ11@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK or QQ11%UK.AC.LIVERPOOL @ UKACRL UUCP : ....!mcsun!ukc!liv!qq11 Voice: +44 51 794 3735 Internet : QQ11@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK or QQ11%LIVERPOOL.AC.UK @ NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK
ken@sugra.UUCP (Kenneth Ng) (10/28/90)
In article <1662@wjvax.UUCP>, mario@wjvax.UUCP (Mario Dona) writes:
: Editing on an IBM mainframe is such a pain, but sometimes that's all you
: got. One of the most obvious things missing is a way to easily reformat
: paragraphs written with the XEDIT editor. Has anyone figured out how to
: reformat (re-align) the lines in a paragraph
: so that they don't look this ugly?
Check out the following, first the starting text:
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Ok, now the output, the first paragraph was done without justtification,
the second was done with justification:
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050 MAIL FROM:<biff@hardy.u.washington.edu> 250
<biff@hardy.u.washington.edu>... sender OK. 050 RCPT
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Ok, this is the routine itself, please note that it is not well tested,
its just something I threw together. There are probably better ways
of doing it, but what do you expect to be done in an hour? Try learning
more about what the REXX/XEDIT interface can do, it is *VERY* powerful,
I'd say it almost approaches the capabilities of emacs.
/* take from the current line till a line that has a blank in the
beginning and try to format it nicely. */
signal on novalue
/* get and store the starting line number */
'EXTRACT/LINE'
start_line = line.1
paragraph2format = ''
/* get the stuff to format into a paragraph into a long line */
do forever
'EXTRACT/CURLINE'
if curline.3 ^= '' & pos(' ', curline.3) ^= 1 then
paragraph2format = paragraph2format strip(curline.3)
else leave
'DOWN 1'
if rc ^= 0 then leave
end
/* goto previous line and delete to the beginning line number */
'UP 1'
'DEL :'start_line - 1
/* while we are not done, grab 72 characters, strip off the trucated
part of the last word, and input it into editor */
do until new_line = ''
parse value reverse(substr(paragraph2format,1,72)) with ' ' new_line
new_line = reverse(new_line)
paragraph2format = strip(substr(paragraph2format, length(new_line)+1))
/* for justified outout uncomment the following line */
new_line = justify(new_line, 72)
if new_line ^= '' then 'INPUT' strip(new_line)
endjhc@irwin.uucp (James H. Coombs) (10/28/90)
In article <16@sugra.UUCP> ken@sugra.UUCP (Kenneth Ng) writes: >In article <1662@wjvax.UUCP>, mario@wjvax.UUCP (Mario Dona) writes: >> Editing on an IBM mainframe is such a pain, but sometimes that's all you >> got. One of the most obvious things missing is a way to easily reformat >Ok, this is the routine itself, please note that it is not well tested, I have a full blown justifier/formatter for XEDIT. It has been publically available at Brown for 5 years or more, so it is mature and robust. It is a little long to post to a group like this, but I am willing to share it. Perhaps someone can tell me what source group to post it to. Or I will (eventually) respond to direct requests. --Jim