KEDIT for DOS and OS/2

KEDIT 5.0 is Mansfield Software Group's text editor for DOS and for OS/2. KEDIT 5.0 is a text mode editor; a separate Windows version is also available. KEDIT provides many powerful and useful facilities for working with text files. It is typically used to edit computer programs, notes and memos, e-mail, lists of information, and other textual data files.

Full-Screen Editing

Like most PC editors, KEDIT is a full-screen editor. Your screen acts like a window into your file.

• You can use the PC's function keys and cursor movement keys to position the cursor anywhere within your file for easy additions and changes.
• Other keys perform such functions as duplicating lines of text, splitting lines, adding and deleting lines, and recovering mistakenly deleted text.

KEDIT Commands

KEDIT's rich command set ranges from basic commands like ADD and DELETE, to such sophisticated search and replace facilities as the LOCATE, CHANGE, and SCHANGE commands, or the flexible and efficient SORT command.

Block Operations

KEDIT supports three types of blocks: line blocks (groups of lines), box blocks (columns of text), and stream blocks (streams of characters that may span one or more lines). Once you've marked a block of text you can move or copy it within a file or between files. Other block operations include duplicating a block, shifting it left or right, uppercasing or lowercasing the text in the block, and printing the block.

Multiple Files, Multiple Windows

With KEDIT, you can work with more than one file at a time.

Up to 20 files (100 files under OS/2)

You can easily switch from one file to another and move text between one file and another.

You can also define multiple windows on your display, allowing split-screen editing of several files at a time.

Selective Line Editing

One special feature of KEDIT is its selective line editing facility, normally accessed through KEDIT's ALL command.

The ALL command can pick out all lines in your file that contain a particular string, for example all lines in a program that use a particular variable, and display only those lines on the screen.

You can then use all of KEDIT's facilities to edit this subset of your file as if the selected lines were the only lines in your file.

You can then return to viewing and working with the entire file, with the lines in the selected subset (as modified by your editing) remaining in their original position in the file.

Reconfigurability

You can easily tailor KEDIT to meet your own special needs. You can change dozens of KEDIT default settings and options, and you can place the settings that work best for you into a KEDIT PROFILE that is automatically executed whenever you start KEDIT.

• You can change KEDIT's screen layout. For example, you can move KEDIT's command line from the bottom of the screen to the top, or you can show line numbers for all lines of your file, and you can control which columns of your file are displayed.
• The SET COLOR command lets you replace KEDIT's color scheme with your own.
• You can change all of KEDIT's default key assignments, and make changes in the way the mouse is handled.
• Existing commands can be renamed via KEDIT's SYNONYM facility.
• You can use KEDIT's macro facility to add new commands of your own.

REXX Macro Facilities

KEDIT is a highly programmable editor, with programming facilities based on the REXX language.

• Built into KEDIT is a large subset of REXX, known as KEXX. KEXX has enough features to handle the editing needs of most KEDIT users, and includes an interactive debugging facility.
• KEDIT also includes an interface to Quercus Systems' Personal REXX product, and to IBM's OS/2 REXX implementation.

Macros can be run from the KEDIT command line, assigned to keys, or activated by the mouse. You can replace any of the default key definitions with your own macros, putting the power of REXX at your fingertips.

XEDIT Compatibility

One unique feature of KEDIT is its compatibility with XEDIT. XEDIT is IBM's editor for their CMS system, which many users of IBM's mainframe computers are familiar with. Many of XEDIT's commands and features are available in KEDIT.

• If you have used XEDIT in the past, you can quickly become productive using KEDIT on a PC.
• If you'll be switching between CMS and your PC, you can move between KEDIT and XEDIT with little confusion or loss of productivity.
• Because KEDIT makes full use of the PC's keyboard, display, and dedicated processing power, many KEDIT functions are actually faster and more flexible than their XEDIT counterparts.
• Even if you aren't familiar with XEDIT, you benefit because KEDIT gives you access to XEDIT capabilities available in no other PC editor.

Compatibility Feature Summary

XEDIT compatible commands and features in KEDIT include:

• Reconfigurable XEDIT full screen layout
• Prefix area and XEDIT prefix commands
• XEDIT-style targets and named lines
• SET ARBCHAR, SET WRAP, SET ZONE, SET VARBLANK
• The ALL command and other selective line editing features
• Support for REXX macros and the EXTRACT command
• Column oriented operations and commands like CLOCATE, CDELETE, and CINSERT
• SORT, GET, PUT, SET VERIFY, SET RANGE, SET SYNONYM
• Over 100 other XEDIT-compatible commands and SET options

Other KEDIT Features

• An online help facility featuring much of the information in the KEDIT Reference Manual
• Comprehensive Undo and Redo facility
• Mouse support
• File locking support, letting you lock the files you are editing to
prevent access by other users on a network or other processes on your own machine
• DOS and OS/2 directory access
• Line lengths up to 4095 (32,000 under OS/2)
• ASCII code manipulation and display features
• AUTOSAVE and BACKUP options
• Support for screen sizes up to 80 lines by 200 columns
• Wordwrap and paragraph formatting

KEDIT for DOS

• Proven technology, available since 1983
• Edits files up to 250K in a typical 640K system
• For editing larger files, KEDIT supports up to 16MB of EMS and XMS memory
• A swap facility, which lets KEDIT swap all but about 4K of its memory to XMS or EMS when the DOS command is issued

KEDIT for OS/2

• One of the first OS/2 applications, shipping since Spring 1988
• Runs in a full screen OS/2 session or in a Presentation Manager text window
• File size limited only by OS/2 virtual memory
• HPFS support

Also includes the DOS version of the KEDIT module

Pricing

Note: We are no longer actively marketing KEDIT for DOS or OS/2 KEDIT 5.0 for DOS: $159
KEDIT 5.0 for OS/2 (also includes the DOS version): $189

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KEDIT comes with a 60-day money-back guarantee.

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