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Date:Mon Jun 16 12:08:46 2003 
Subject:Re: Ved keys in Windows 
From:Benjamin Lynes 
Volume-ID:1030616.01 

Many thanks Aaron, I'm looking forward to re-familiarising myself with
Pop-11 after being introduced to it by yourself at the University of
Birmingham.

Ben

On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 20:36:14 +0000 (UTC), A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk
(Aaron Sloman) wrote:

>
>Benjamin Lynes <beninnorfolk@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>> I have installed poplog on a Windows XP system, and have it up and
>> running successfully. However, I am unable to determine what key
>> combinations are required to mark the beginning and end of a range in
>> order to use the load marked range command.
>>
>> Can anyone please help me?
>
>The file HELP VEDKEYS ( $usepop/pop/help/vedkeys )
>
>Lists a large collection of default key bindings that should work in
>Ved on any platform. Examples (in section 4.8) are;
>
>     ESC m  Mark start of range                         MARKLO
>     ESC M  Mark end of range                           MARKHI
>     ESC C  Mark the current procedure                  ENTER mcp
>
>     ESC g  Go to start of marked range                 MARKFIND
>     ESC G  Go to end of marked range                   ENDRANGE
>
>        ^D  Compile the marked range                    ENTER lmr
>
>     ^K ^D  Delete the marked range                     ENTER d
> ESC ^K ^D  Yank range                                  ENTER y
>
>
>If the right-hand ENTER key does not work (i.e. does not put the Ved
>cursor on the command line and clear the command line, then these
>three may also be useful (from section 4.7):
>
>        ^G  Enter a command                             ENTER
>    ESC ^G  Switch to/from command line                 SWITCHSTATUS
>ESC RETURN  Redo command on command line                REDOCOMMAND
>
>(Where the 'RETURN' key is the big key under the backspace key).
>
>A small subset of the generally useful keybindings has been
>collected here for people accessing Ved via 'dumb-terminal'
>interfaces:
>
>    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/teach/telnetkeys
>
>Other useful things are listed in the HELP VEDKEYS file. A lot more
>cross-references can be found in HELP VED. Note that you can follow
>up a cross reference of the form
>
>    TEACH VEDSEARCH
>
>by placing the Ved cursor between 'TEACH' 'VEDSEARCH' and then
>use the two keys
>    ESC h
>(sometimes an asterisk is provided between the two words as a
>reminder that you can do this)
>
>    ESC n
>
>Will take you to the next asterisk: a relic of the days before
>things like mice were available.
>
>When you are fluent in pop-11 you can create a file called vedinit.p
>and define key bindings to suit yourself. (I've never done this on
>windows as I use only linux/unix versions of poplog, but I assume
>it will work).
>
>You may also find the text files and the init.p file in this
>directory useful:
>    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/winpop/
>
>You may get more useful tips from people who actually use windows
>poplog!
>
>Aaron
>====
>Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/ )
>School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
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