[misc.handicap] qedit and silver

Scott.Marshall@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Scott Marshall) (08/21/90)

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Hi Tandy: 
Sammy Mitchell, the author of qedit, is very interested in feedback
from blind users.  He has written bios write for a speech version of
qedit.  He also is aware of the problem of pop up boxes which don't
speak very well.  By the way, you choose s for save when you pull
down a menu using the escape key.  
All this having been said, I prefer to use Wordperfect's program
Editor (now called WP Office Pc).  I guess that I like the absolute
compatibility with wp commands.  Also, the new editor has word wrap
which it didn't before.  

Somehow, Walter, I could never get the key config file for qedit
which was supposed to make it feel like WP to work very well.  Since
I already owned WP Library, it was only a $35 upgrade to the new WP
Office PC which includes the dos text and macro editor.  
Take care, Scott 

... From Washington, DC, where every day is Christmas

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Stu.Turk@f26.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Stu Turk) (08/21/90)

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 TW>  would like to use qedit but I need to know a coupple things. so you
 TW>  qedit freaks help me.  first of all if I don't want the full range of
 TW>  features and printing of qedit just its editing and saving in ascii
 TW>  form can I just use the q.exe file and leave all that other stuff in
 TW>  the zip file?  next what is the save command in qedit I tried control
 TW>  ks control kd control s and all with no luck and there seems to be no
 TW>  help menu to tell me how to bail out.   

 SW>     Tandy, I know that you will get better answers then mine, 
 SW>but Willie has a file on his board which will configure q edit in 
 SW>a wordperfect configuration.  This might help you.  The little 
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(This is really to Tandy but I can't find the original msg).  When
you type ESC with Qedit 2.10 you get a (reverse video) pull down
menu.  Typing F1 give you a (again, reverse video) help screen.  To
save a file with the default Qedit keyboard setup, type Alt-X and a
small window will pop up someplace in the body of the file and ask
if you want t save Yes/No with the Yes line in reverse video.  This
little window pops up in different places on the screen each time.
Tandy, the first time you run Qedit, you might want to unzip the
qconfig exc and also pick up the WordPerfect Keyboard and help file
(or WordStar if you prefer).  You can edit the keyboard and help
files so that the keys will do whatever you want them to (you edit
it with q.exe).  Run the qconfig and tell it to install the new
keyboard file and then the help file.  While you are in qconfig, if
your synthesizer does not like reverise video, you might want to go
into the advanced options and change the colors for the different
windows and help screen.  You also may want to tell it not to start
in Insert and AutoIndent mode, not to end the files with Ctrl-Z,
not to End-Of-File logo and, if you're short space, not to create
*.bak files.  Once you get q.exe configured the way you want you
can delete qconfig and the keyboard file.

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