HELP VEDFILESELECT                                 Mark Rubinstein August 1983
                                                 Last Modified A.S. March 1986

    VEDFILESELECT - activated by <ESC> e

The procedure VEDFILSELECT lets you go to one of the files you are
editing. It will print out a list of the names of the files (on the
command line if it fits), with numbers for you to pick which one you
want.

If more than 9 files being edited then some files are referred to by a
number and others by a letter. There is a limit of 35 files that can be
selected in this way.

Typing anything but a number or letter corresponding to a file gets you
back to your last file, e.g. <RETURN>.

If there are too many files for it to display on the command line it
will edit a temporary buffer to show you the names of the files.  This
can take a small amount of time so it will wait about a second to see if
you know which file you want.  For example if you know that you want the
last but one file you edited then you can type <ESC> e 3 (fairly
quickly) and it will then take you to that file without bothering to
show you the options.  If you have not typed anything during that second
it will show you the options.

For most terminals VEDFILESELECT is set to the key sequence <ESC> e.
If this is inconvenient, VEDSETKEY can be used to change it. E.g.
if you wished to set the sequence <ESC> CTRL-p to activate VEDFILESELECT
you could put the following line into your VED initialisation
file 'vedinit.p':

    vedsetkey('\^[\^P', vedfileselect);

For further details see
HELP * VEDSETKEY - on altering key settings
HELP * INITIAL   - on initialising POPLOG or VED.
