Qedit 6.5 for HP-UX User Manual

Qedit 6.5 for HP-UX

Doc-To-Help Standard Manual

by Robelle Solutions Technology Inc.

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Qedit 6.5 for HP-UX. i

Welcome to Qedit. 9

Introduction. 9

Documentation. 10

Printed Documentation. 10

Additional Software. 10

Highlights In Version 6.5. 13

Highlights In Version 6.3. 13

Highlights In Version 6.2. 13

Highlights In Version 6.1. 14

Highlights In Version 6.0. 14

Highlights In Version 5.9. 14

Installing Qedit/UX. 15

General Installation Notes. 15

Who Should Use These Instructions?. 15

Summary of Installation Steps. 15

Step 1: Log On as Root. 15

Step 2: Create Robelle Directory. 16

Step 3: Restore Files. 16

Step 4: Set Up PATH (Optional) 16

Step 5: Start the Qedit for Windows Server (optional) 16

Getting a Quick Start with HP Full-Screen Editing. 19

Introduction. 19

Starting Visual Mode. 20

Screen Layout. 21

Status Line. 22

Template Line. 22

Special Indicator Columns. 23

Using Your Keyboard. 23

Moving the Cursor 23

Editing the Text Lines. 24

Control Functions. 24

Reflection for DOS Keyboards. 25

Other PC Keyboards. 25

Function Keys. 26

Browsing Through Your File. 27

Cut-and-Paste. 28

Cutting Operations. 28

Pasting Operations. 29

Resetting Cut-and-Paste. 29

Copying a Block of Text 29

Cut-and-Paste Between Files. 30

Dividing and Gluing Operations. 31

Dividing Lines in Visual Mode. 31

Gluing Lines in Visual Mode. 31

Excluding Lines From Visual Mode Display. 32

Justifying Lines in Visual Mode. 32

Renumbering Lines. 33

Inserting Blank Lines. 33

Marking Changes Without Using Line Numbers. 33

Paste from a Non-Qedit File. 34

Home Line Commands. 34

Finding Strings. 35

Changing Strings. 35

Help on Visual Mode. 35

Formatting Paragraphs. 36

Undoing Changes in Visual Mode. 36

Refreshing the Screen. 36

Other Line Mode Commands. 37

Truncated Home Line. 37

Exit from Visual 37

Getting a Quick Start with VT Full-Screen Editing. 39

Introduction. 39

Home and End keys. 39

Starting Screen Mode. 40

Troubleshooting. 40

Screen Layout. 40

Status Line. 41

Message Line. 41

Using Your Keyboard. 42

Moving the Cursor 42

Editing the Text Lines. 43

Control Functions. 44

Browsing Through Your File. 44

Cut-and-Paste. 45

Resetting Cut-and-Paste. 45

Copying a Block of Text 45

Splitting and Joining Lines. 46

Getting a Quick Start with Line Mode Editing. 47

Introduction. 47

Adding Lines to a File. 47

Looking at the File. 48

Browsing the File. 49

Searching the File. 49

Editing Lines. 50

Global Changes. 52

Copying Lines. 53

Moving Lines. 53

Deleting Lines. 54

Help Command. 54

Saving the File. 55

Open and Shut for Instant Access. 55

Running Qedit under HP-UX. 57

Running Qedit. 57

Visual Mode for HP Terminals. 57

Screen Mode for VT Terminals. 58

Edit Several Files at Once. 58

How to Edit Several Files?. 59

Starting a New Scratch File. 59

Configuring Different Shells. 59

Bourne and Korn Shells. 59

Setting Up a PATH for Qedit. 60

Bourne and Korn Shells. 60

Control Characters and stty. 61

Qeditmgr Configuration Files. 61

Default Set Commands. 62

On-Line vs. Batch Access. 62

Command Line Options. 62

Initial Command Line: -ccmdstring. 63

Editing a Single File: -s. 63

Exit with Verify: -v. 63

"Discard Changes?" on Exit 63

HP-UX Notes. 64

EDITOR Variable. 64

Scratch File. 64

Shell Commands. 65

Shell Command History. 66

Hardcoded File Names. 67

/opt/robelle/qeditmgr 67

$HOME/.qeditmgr 68

/opt/robelle/help/qedit 68

Visual Mode. 68

Variables that Drive Qedit 68

Setting Variables in Your Shell 69

RCRTMODEL Variable. 69

RPCVERSION Variable. 72

RCRTWIDTH Variable. 73

Function Key Labels. 73

RCRTSTRAPSGH for Handshaking. 73

QEDITMGRTRACE Variable. 74

QEDCURWFILE Variable. 74

QEDSTOREDPWD and QEDPROMPTEDPWD Variables. 74

ROBELLE Environment Variable. 75

Converting Qedit Files with qcat. 76

Differences Between MPE and HP-UX. 76

Current "*" File Name. 76

Missing Features. 76

Qedit for Microsoft Windows. 79

Introduction. 79

Server Process. 79

Console Messages. 81

Log File Names. 82

Qedit Issues and Solutions. 85

Running Qedit with Reflection. 85

Alt-Y vs. :Reflect 85

Form Feed Causing Return/Line Feed. 86

Completion Codes. 86

Controlling the PC. 86

Accidental Exit from Reflection. 86

Changing the Exit Keystroke. 87

Files without NewLine Characters. 88

Lines, Strings and Ranges. 89

Qedit Commands. 91

Introduction. 91

General Notes. 91

Abbreviations. 91

Uppercase or Lowercase. 92

Multiple Commands per Line. 92

Comments on Command Lines. 92

Stopping Commands with Control-Y. 93

Implicit Commands. 93

Function Keys. 93

Shell Commands. 94

Calculator Commands. 94

Add Command [A] 95

Add (Adding New Lines) 95

Add (Adding a String as a Line) 97

Add (Copying Lines within a File) 97

Add (Moving Lines within a File) 98

Add (Copying Lines Between Files) 99

Append Command [AP] 101

Backward Command [BA/F5] 102

Before Command [B] 103

CD Command [CD] 105

Change Command [C] 106

Change (Changing Strings) 106

Change (Changing Columns) 109

Close Command [CL] 111

Colcopy Command [COL] 112

Colmove Command [COLM] 115

Delete Command [D] 118

Destroy Command [DES] 120

Divide Command [DI] 121

:Do Command [DO] 122

Exit Command [E/F8] 123

Find Command [F/F4] 124

Findup Command [FINDU/F3] 126

Form Command [FORM] 127

Forward Command [FO/F6] 128

Garbage Command [GAR] 129

Glue Command [G] 130

Help Command [H/?] 131

Hold Command [HO] 132

Justify Command [J] 134

Keep Command [K] 141

List Command [L] 145

:Listredo Command [LISTREDO/F7] 158

:Listundo Command [LISTU] 159

LS Command [LS] 160

Lsort Command [LSO] 161

Merge Command [ME] 162

Modify Command [M] 164

New Command [N] 177

Open Command [O] 178

Proc Command [P] 182

Q Command [Q] 183

:Redo Command [REDO] 184

:Reflect Command [REFLECT] 186

Renumber Command [REN] 188

Replace Command [R] 189

Set Command [S] 190

Expandtabs. 197

Extentsize. 197

Interactive. 199

RL file name. 214

Statistics. 215

Stringdelimiters. 215

Wraparound. 238

Shut Command [SH] 244

Spell Command [SP] 245

Text Command [T] 246

Undo Command [UN] 252

Up Command [UP/F2] 254

Use Command [U] 255

Verify Command [V] 256

Visual Command [VI/F1] 257

Words Command [W] 260

Zave Command [Z] 261

ZZ Command. 262

Calculator Command [=] 263

Troubleshooting and Error Messages. 267

Introduction. 267

Quit Errors. 270

Errors in Visual. 270

Using Visual with X.25. 270

Using Visual on HP-UX. 270

Terminals Supported by Visual 270

Problems with 700/9x Terminals. 271

Visual Error Messages. 271

File Formats. 275

Introduction. 275

Qedit Workfiles. 275

Original Format Workfiles. 275

Jumbo Workfiles. 276

External Files. 277

Regular Expressions. 281

Introduction. 281

Metacharacters. 281

Character Class. 283

Escape Character. 285

Escaped Sequences in Regular Expressions. 286

Backreferences in Regular Expressions. 287

Escaped Characters in Replacement String. 288

Qedit Glossary. 289

Introduction. 289

Abbreviating. 289

Control Character 291

Current Line. 292

External File. 292

File Names. 293

Full-Screen Editing. 293

Jumbo Files. 294

Memory Lock. 296

Quiet-Q Option. 298

Relative Line Numbers. 300

Template-T Option. 302

Visual Editing. 302

Special Characters. 304

? Means Help, Nonprinting Characters, Alphanumeric (in Patterns) or Optional (in Regexp) 304

$ Means Hex, Memory Lock, List Option, Previous File or End-Of-Line (in Regexp) 304

^ Means Findup, Control-Char, Start-of-line (in Regexp) or Negate (in Regexp) 305

. Means Nonprinting, Reset, Decimal Point or Any Character (in Regexp) 306

! Means Shell Script or Too Long. 306

% Means Octal or String. 306

* Means Current, Refresh, Multiply or Quantifier (in Regexp) 306

\ Means Previous, String, Literal Match (in Regexp) or Special Characters (in Regexp) 307

/ Means Prompt, Range Delimiter, Stop, Exit, or Divide. 308

[ Means FIRST, [default] or Start Class (in Regexp) 308

] Means LAST or End Class (in Regexp) 309

{ } Are for Comments or Indentation. 309

@ Means ALL. 309

& Means Literal Match. 310

: Means Shell Commands or String. 310

; Means Multiple Commands. 310

, Means a List 311

= Means Copy or Calculate. 311

< Means Move, I/O Redirection or Backward Page. 311

> Means Forward Page, I/O Redirection, Modify or Qhelp. 311

" Means String. 312

( Means Start Parameter, Command or Subpattern (in Regexp) 312

) Means End Parameter, Command or Subpattern (in Regexp) 312

+ Means Ahead Some Lines, Add or Quantifier (in Regexp) 313

- Means Back Some Lines, Minus or Range (in Regexp) 313

# Means Numeric Pattern. 314

~ Means Spaces (Pattern), Recent Page or Field. 314