© MYSTERY-soft, K&K Co.1991,1992.

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TED is a text editor with simplified interface. The editor's features are sufficient to create or edit various text files. The TED editor was written in Z80 assembler and complied with Macro-80.

ted.zip

Usage:

TED filename.ext

if there is no file name in the command line, the following message appears:

 Tiny Editor v1.61 (C) MYSTERY-soft
Use:TED filename

When you start the editor, you will see its editing window:

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                     YOUR TEXT IS                        │
~                         HERE                            ~
~                                                         ~
~                                                         ~
│                                                         │
│  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │
│  [D:filename.ext]  00000: 00000:00000 [00] 00:00 *      │
└─────────────────────▲───────▲───────▲───▲──▲──▲──▲──────┘
                      │       │       │   │  │  │  │
The number of lines───┤       │       │   │  │  │  └─ Text changed flag
     in the text ─────┘       │       │   │  │  │
                              │       │   │  │  │
                              │       │   │  │  │
   The amount of free ────────┤       │   │  │  │
     space in bytes   ────────┘       │   │  │  └─ vertical cursor position
                                      │   │  │
                 Current line number ─┘   │  └── horizontal cursor position
                                          │
                                          │
        Current character's code ─────────┘
              (hexadecimal)             

Notes:

• Numbering of lines and cursor position coordinates starts from zero.
• Tab (code 9) is not displayed in the character code field, but is considered a space (code 20h), although the tab is written to the text.

The following keys can be used for editing a text:

If you press DEL at the end of a line, the previous line will be merged with the current one.

Press CTRL+S to search, the editor will ask you to enter the text to search:

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                     YOUR TEXT IS                        │
~                         HERE                            ~
~                                                         ~
~                                                         ~
│                                                         │
│  Search:▊────────────────────────────────────────────── │
│  [D:filename.ext]  00000: 00000:00000 [00] 00:00 *      │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

After the search character or string is input and Enter⏎ is pressed, the search will be performed from the beginning to the end of the text. If the match is found, it will be located at the top of the screen.

To continue searching using the same pattern press CTRL+Q.

Pressing the ESC key will display the output or exiting options:

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                     YOUR TEXT IS                        │
~                         HERE                            ~
~                                                         ~
~                                                         ~
│                                                         │
│  ────────────────────────────────────────────────────── │
│  [D:filename.ext]  Select: [S]ave [Q]uit [ESC]-continue │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

To save current text into a file, press S, and the cursor will go to the filename editing field. Type the desired name and press Enter⏎. The file will be saved with the specified name.

Note:
File name editing will ignore certain keys: INS, DEL, BS
The corrections are made by Space and cursor keys → and ←.

To exit the editor, press the Q key.

To quickly exit the editor and save the currently edited file, press the F10 key.

Note:
When exiting with F10, there is no request to save the file and to confirm exiting the editor.

When the buffer overflows in file loading mode, the following message is displayed:

Buffer full

and any key is expected to be pressed, after which it switches to edit mode with the part of the text that fits in the buffer.

Note:
When the buffer is full, the insertion of characters and lines does not occur!

In case of disk exchange errors, the editor displays a message:

Disk I/O error: ([A]bort,[R]etry,[I]gnore)

response to it, as in MSX-DOS. (only for Abort — return to edit mode).

Note for the system programmer:
The editor disconnects the network (if there is one) and sets (38h):=0C9h; upon exit, these states are saved.

We express our gratitude to all the authors of this text editor and to those who helped solve the problems of launching the editor on machines with several mappers:

• MYSTERY-soft
• K&K Co.
• Kamil Karimov (Caro)
• [RBSC] Wierzbowsky
• [RBSC] GreyWolf

Нормальный текстовый редактор под Nextor(MSX-DOS 2)