Dec 302017
 
A programmers editor for OS/2 PM.
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A programmers editor for OS/2 PM.
File Name File Size Zip Size Zip Type
READ.EXE 23814 15367 deflated
SEE-DOS.EXE 43687 25886 deflated
SEE.EXE 76784 41120 deflated
SEE.TXT 11109 4619 deflated
SEEFONTS.DLL 34816 6312 deflated

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Contents of the SEE.TXT file


SEE editor.
-----------

I wrote this editor three years ago as an answer to many MS-DOS editors which
need many keystrokes and confirmations to do a single thing (Are you sure to
quit ?) (Are you sure to overwrite this file ?). Now I converted it to OS/2
and it also works under OS/2 as a Presentation Manager program.
Requirements:
OS/2 1.1 and up and 70 K disk space. Even IBM and Microsoft didn't provide a
PM editor yet. The MEP (provided with C 5.1) and E (provided by IBM) are just
character mode editors.

Font problems.
--------------

I also supply SEEFONTS.DLL with this editor for a 7*12 pixel font, and a
small 6*8 font. The first allows more than 80 columns on the screen and the
second allows a 100 column screen on VGA and EGA and 55 line screen on VGA.
For using this font you must copy SEEFONTS.DLL to the directory pointed to by
the LIBPATH parameter in your CONFIG.SYS file. When this file is not found,
the smallest Courier font will be loaded.
You must install the Courier font first (if you haven't done it yet) with the
Control Panel, otherwise SEE won't work with Courier. For the other fonts you
don't need Courier.
Unfortunately, there is a problem with this font (a bug in OS/2 1.1). I used
the smallest available Courier font (the others are proportional and not
suitable for a text editor and the larger Courier fonts are too large for
text editing less than 70 columns per line when SEE uses the entire screen).
The lowest scan line is missing in this font, so an underscore looks like a
space and a lowercase g as a q. When you have OS/2 1.2 installed, this bug
may be fixed.

Command line options.
---------------------

Type SEE -? to show a dialog box with all options.

Invocation: SEE [] []
-4 medium font (36 lines/screen on VGA)
-6 small font (60 lines/screen on VGA)
-a assembly mode: tabs 8 and special insert
-b not a bold cursor line
-cxxx color attribute (0 is different colors on color screen)
-f start in full screen mode (maximized window)
-l start in lower half of PM screen
-h start in upper half of PM screen
-u enable error beeps (must also be enabled in Control Panel)
-i overwrite mode at startup
-y find/replace case insensitive
-z line buffer marking by characters
-0 translates all nulls to hex 80 chars and back
-tnn sets tab to nn
-wnn sets right column value to nn and enables auto wrap

Colors.
-------

The default colors will be according to the Window Text, Window Static TEXT
and Window Background as set in the Control Panel.

When the option -cxxx has been set the colors of the text are set to this
value. When -c0xFF is set, there is more color variation.

The command line options -mxx, -nxx, -oxx, -pxx, -qxx and -rxx
where xx is a hexadecimal number sets the color of the

-m normal text
-o header text
-p header reverse
-q help colors 1
-r help colors 2
-s help colors 3

The colors are an ORed value of:
01h blue foreground
02h green foreground
04h red foreground
08h highlighted foreground
10h blue background
20h green background
40h red background
80h blinking

Config file.
------------

See searches first the current directory and then the directory in which
SEE.EXE is for a file called SEE.CNF.
This file can contain command line options (without / or -, each option on a
new line), e.g.

c0xff
y
a
w80
m2h
n4h

sets more color variarion, case ignore for search, tabs 8 (assembly mode), 80
column word wrap, green normal text, red current line.

Mouse control.
--------------

The left button of the mouse sets the cursor in the position where the arrow
pointer is. When the 'buffer mark mode' is on, clicking the left button
finishes the marking. E.g. when Ctrl-B is pressed and then the left button is
clicked, ih has the same effect as Ctrl-B again.
When the left button is held down and the middle or right is pressed, the
current line will be deleted (same as Ctrl-Y). Pressing the middle or right
button only copies the line (or buffer marked by Ctrl-B or Ctrl-D) at the
point where the mouse arrow is. This is convenient for moving lines in a text
or source code.

Run program.
------------

With the F12 key you can start a new shell from SEE. When nothing is filled
in, SEE will call the CMD.EXE dos shell with no parameters.
Otherwise, SEE will append .EXE to the first word and look in the current
path for a matching program file. If it finds it, it will call the program
file with the parameters specified, or otherwise it will call the dosshell
CMD.EXE with the original string. So you can also enter COPY *.* A: for
example. When you mark 'Background' see will remain the active window and
when the program is finished, the window of that program will clear.
Otherwise, the title bar will show 'Completed' when it ends and press Alt,C
or click the upper left '-' button. Then, the Task manager will appear which
I don't like but could not prevent yet.

Drive full/not ready.
---------------------

When A or B is selected and when they are not ready, SEE ignores it.

Wildcards.
----------

On the command line or in the Edit file menu (^E) wildcards are also allowed.
The next file can be get by pressing the Escape key. Ctrl-E (edit file menu)
clears the wildcard.

Line number.
------------

A line number can be invoked directly by see .
E.g. SEE test.c 34 will start the editor in TEST.C at line 34.

Large files.
------------

SEE can normally handle files up to 48 KB (extendable to 60 KB in one buffer),
but when larger files are loaded the first 48 K will be loaded first (except
in the case a line number is given which is not in the first 48 K).
For the next 48 K press Ctrl-PgDn and for the next 48 K following the current
line press Ctrl-U (which updates all previous text). A temporary file named
@SEETEMP will be created and when the entire file is updated, this file will
be renamed to the original file name. One buffer back is, unfortunately not
possible (only with Ctrl-PgUp, reinitialize file at line 1). All functions
working on the entire file (e.g. Ctrl-O(verall replace) or (Ctrl-K T(ab
conversion)) will work only in the current text buffer. For find Again the +
and - (numeric keypad) functions will only work within the text buffer.
Ctrl-A searches the next text buffer(s) for a matching string. The
Ctrl-L(ine number) function works on the entire file, thus will load another
buffer if necessary.

Note for Multi tasking environments (OS/2, Windows/386, VM/386, etc.)
Be careful with editing two large files in the same directory in two
different sessions!

Limitations
-----------
The limits are:
Maximum 300 characters per line.
Maximum 2560 lines or 48 KB per text buffer (the one which is reached first).

Return value.
-------------
SEE exits with ERRORLEVEL 0 unless exited by F3 or Ctrl-Break. Then it exits
with errorlevel 1. (Handy for a edit-compile batch file).

DOS screen.
-----------
Because SEE runs in the Presentation Manager session, in cannot read the
screen of a character mode session, so it must get the information of that
session from a file.
SEE reads a file (normally called ERR) but can be changed by option
-efilename. This file is viewed by the View entry on the menu bar or the F9
key. The first line will be in the title bar and the remaining 25 lines will
be shown in the dialog box. The program READ.EXE reads the screen of a
character mode session. You can also redirect the output of your compiler to
the ERR file.
E.g.

echo "Compiler errors" > err
cl -Zi -Od file.c >> err

When SEE is invoked now and F9 is pressed, the error messages will be shown
under the title "Compiler errors".


Goes down, character sequences
------------------------------
The F5 key toggles the mode in which the cursor goes down instead of right
after each character or Del or F4(not Backspace).
The F4 key is an increment key for digits. It enters digits 0-9 ( each time
the key is pressed the next digit or char will be entered).


Special insert
--------------
When Shift-Ins is pressed the editor is in insert mode, except for blanks.
That means that all nonblank characters right of the cursor will be shift to
the right, but the blanks right of the cursor will be overwritten until one
blank remains.

Word wrap.
----------
Although not designed as a text processor, a very simple text processing
feature is added. When Word-wrap mode is enabled (see -wnn) or in SEE
by the 'Options' menu (Ctrl-T) nn is the right column number words will
automatically wrap at that column. Ctrl K-W (Line wrap button) will wrap line
by line (reformat) in that mode.

Set buffer
----------
Normally in SEE the buffer (Copy or delete) is set by entire lines, but when
Ctrl-T (or invoking see with the -z option) is enabled the buffer can be
barked by each point in the text. When the buffer marker is set (by the
inverse screen bar/point, it can also be ended by the mouse button.


Search
------
Normally the Find/Replace functions are case sensitive but you can disable
them by Ctrl-T + marking check box or invoking see with the -y option. For
finding a control character press Ctrl-A after Ctrl-F(ind) or Ctrl-R(eplace)
and fill in the value.

ASCII values, color values.
---------------------------
These can be entered decimally or in hex in the form 0xnn or nnh.

Null characters and Ctrl-Z characters.
--------------------------------------
Normally a file is loaded in the buffer until the first Ctrl-Z (EOF) or null
character. When the -0 option is invoked, null characters and EOFs are loaded
too and the nulls are translated into hex 80 characters temporarily and reset
to nulls wnen written to a file. Moreover no additional CR-LF will be added
in that mode. Handy for small config files.

Problems.
---------
When the main window is minimized and the user wants to close SEE with the
system menu, the dialog box 'Ignore the changes' does not appear properly.
This is due to a bug in WinSetWindowPos() in OS/2 1.1.

Various functions.
------------------
Try out the functions under Ctrl-K. (Special menu in OS/2 version) Ctrl-K G
and Ctrk-K [/{/( and Ctrl-K B are very useful for C programmers. Ctrl-K G
inserts a "/* " at the cursor position and a " */" at the end of the current
line. When there is already a "/* " and " */" (both with space) they will be
removed. Handy for quick commenting out debug lines. Ctrl-K (brace open) will
search a matcing close brace. Ctrl-K B (Bracket count button) will count the
number of ( and )s in a single line (for checking complex expressions).
Ctrl-K 7(Ascii button) will AND all characters above 80h ascii with 7Fh.


SEE is developed by:

Klaas van Ditzhuyzen
c/o DATAD data communications
PO Box 371
3900 AD Veenendaal
Holland

using MS-C 5.1


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