Welcome to Wed

• Basic Editing functions
• Selecting text
• Copy/Cut/Paste
• Searching/Replace
• Macro Record/Play
• Undo/Redo
• CoCo code collection
• Tech Notes
• Features
• Keystrokes
• Data preservation
• Unix files
• Limits
• Uninstall
• Spell Check
• Multi open
• Hit Mode
• Unix files
• Tabs
• Hex Mode
• Locking the keyboard

Basic Editing functions

Whenever there is a conflict, Wed attempts to allow the action with the most productivity.

For a quick view of key assignments refer to Wed's menu system, or the keys section below.

Selecting text

    Holding shift and navigating up and/or down will start row selection.
    Holding shift and navigating left and/or right  will start column (block) selection.
    Dragging the mouse up and/or down will start row selection.
    Dragging the mouse left and/or right  will start column (block) selection.

Wed's principal selection method is Alt-L for row select, Alt-C for column (block) select. Navigation keys will extend selection.

Selection shortcuts:

    Use Alt-V to select the current word
        Mouse double click will also select the current word
    Use Alt-M to select (mark) the current block, as understood by 'C'
    Use Alt-P to select the current paragraph as in text file paragraph (empty line)
    Use Ctrl-A to select the whole buffer (file)

Selection can be canceled by pressing Esc or Control Break.

Copy/Cut/Paste

• Standard windows clipboard
• Set of ten holding buffers

• Ctrl-C for copy
• Ctrl-X for cut
• Ctrl-V for paste

• Row mode
• Column mode (or block mode)

To copy highlighted text, use the Plus (+) key on the number keypad. (Gray Plus)
To cut highlighted text, use the Minus  (-) key on the number keypad. (Gray Minus)
To paste holding buffer text, use the Ins  key on the number keypad.

    If shift is held while copying/cutting, the holding buffer appends the new data to the old. This is useful for accumulating text in the holdings.

To switch holding buffers, use Alt-0 Alt-1  ..... Alt-9

Holding buffers are automatically saved and re-loaded into Wed.

Searching text

    Entering Hit Mode. Alt-H enters hit mode, which displays only the lines with matches.

    Use Alt-S to start Search
    Use Alt-T to start Search/Replace
    Use F5 to jump to previous match  (updated live)
    Use F6 to jump to next match  (updated live)

The action of F5 and F6 are updated live, so matches will hit correctly even if the buffer changes. This is most useful on macro playback.

While in Search pop-up

    Use Navigation keys to jump onto search hits
    Use Alt-C To change all occurrences in one buffer
    Use Alt-O To change one occurrence
    Use Alt-G To change al occurrences in every selected file (Power User Be Aware)
    Use Alt-E To close all search pop-ups

Search has three modes:

• Normal Search                    Case Insensitive
• Function Search                   Find functions as in "C, C++, Java"
• Regular expression Search    POSIX compatible Regex

The function search depends on the following algorithm:
    Non empty column(0)  before the line with "{" in colomn(0)  [the first position]

Regular expression syntax:

• ^         Beginning of the string. The expression "^A" will match an ‘A’ only at the beginning of the string.
• ^         The caret (^) immediately following the left bracket ([) has a different meaning. It is used to exclude the remaining characters within brackets from matching the target string. The expression "[^0-9]" indicates that the target character should not be a digit.
• []         Brackets ([ and ]) enclosing a set of characters indicates that any of the enclosed characters may match the target character.
• $         The dollar sign ($) will match the end of the string. The expression "xyz$" will match the sub-string "xyz" only if it is at the end of the string.
• |         The OR character (|) allows either expression on its side to match the target string. The expression "x|y" will match ‘x’ as well as ‘y’.
• .         The dot (.) will match any single character.
• *         The asterisk (*) indicates that the character to the immidiate left of the asterisk in the expression should match 0 or more times.
• +         The plus (+) is similar to asterisk but there should be at least one match of the character to the left of the + sign in the expression.
• ?         The question mark (?) matches the character to its immidiate left 0 or 1 times.
• ()         The parenthesis affects the order of pattern evaluation. Also serves as a tagged expression that can be used when
• replacing the matched substring with another expression.

Macros

Wed has ten macro buffers. They can be selected with the keys Ctrl-0, Ctrl-1 ... Ctrl-9
Macro buffers are automatically saved and re-loaded into Wed. (persistent macros)

Undo/redo

    To undo a change use Alt-U
    To redo a change use Alt-R

  Undo/Redo information is  automatically saved and re-loaded into Wed. (persistent undo)
This means Wed saves all the information to reconstruct every modification to your file. Undo/Redo can be applied at any point, Wed will safely walk you back and forth on the changes you made.

  For data safety, undo is limited to 10.000 saves. If that is exceeded, undo discards the oldest undo information. Wed saves undo information to the undo file. This means one can undo changes beyond file save boundaries. Undo will clearly prompt you if it detects an undo/redo beyond file save boundary.

CoCo code collection

Tech Notes

Wed will remember all ten Holding buffers, and all ten Macro buffers, and automatically reload them on startup.

Resetting Wed Configuration:

Deleting the registry key

    \\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PeterGlen\Wed

will reset Wed to its original configuration.

Copyright Banner:

  The Banner is intelligent to assist one in productivity. If the editor is started in short succession, the copyright banner will not be displayed.

Interactive:

  Wed's interactivity features let you cancel any lengthy operation, including load/save/find/copy/paste. Canceling any action is atomic, the canceled action will have the correct undo/redo, and will preserve data integrity. Canceled Read/Load will mark the buffer read only, so partial files will not overwrite originals.

    These set of features are great when editing remote files.

Status Bar:

The status bar consist of the following items:

• Status line
• Row Column position
• Number of lines in file
• Current Time
• Current Date
• Current Holding Buffer
• Current Macro Buffer
• Current Mode (Hit Mode Hex Mode, Recording, Playing)
• Caps Lock Indicator
• Num. Lock Indicator
• Scroll Lock Indicator

Wed Features:

• Unlimited macro size
• Unlimited file size
• Undo beyond last save
• Brief compatible keystrokes
• Ten clipboards, ten macro buffers
• Auto file save and file backup
• Synchronized search
• Color diff function
• Selectable colors
• Selectable fonts
•  Templates for "C' and java
• Interrupt able operation
• Full screen operation
• Unix format auto recognition
• Hit Mode

Keystrokes

Control Key Combinations
 

Ctrl-A	Select All	Standard windows key
Ctrl-B	Insert 'C' template	Wed keystroke
Ctrl-C	Copy to clipboard	Standard windows key
Ctrl-D	Goto Next Difference	Wed keystroke
Ctrl-E	Save As	Wed keystroke
Ctrl-F	Find	Standard windows key
Ctrl-G	Close buffer	Wed keystroke
Ctrl-H	Backspace	Standard windows key
Ctrl-I	Tab	Standard windows key
Ctrl-J	Insert Java Template	Wed keystroke
Ctrl-K	Switch on/off hex mode	Wed keystroke
Ctrl-L	Lowercase word	Wed keystroke
Ctrl-M	Enter	Standard windows key
Ctrl-N	Create new buffer	Standard windows key
Ctrl-O	Open file	Standard windows key
Ctrl-P	Print buffer	Standard windows key
Ctrl-Q	Cascade windows	Wed keystroke
Ctrl-R	Goto previous diff	Wed keystroke
Ctrl-S	Save file	Standard windows key
Ctrl-T	Tile Windows Left/Right	Wed keystroke
Ctrl-U	Uppercase current word	Wed keystroke
Ctrl-V	Paste from clipboard	Standard windows key
Ctrl-W	Capitalize current word	Wed keystroke
Ctrl-X	Cut to clipboard	Standard windows key
Ctrl-Y	Redo	Standard windows key
Ctrl-Z	Undo	Standard windows key

 Data preservation

• Initial backup of your file
• Auto save after 30 seconds
• Persistent undo information

    C:\Program Files\Wed\

File specific information is saved to a hashed name of the file's full path. For example the file:

    'c:\autoexec.bat' has the hash of  '0x12a4e903'    (your hash may differ)

To find out the hash value for a particular file, use  --- Menu -> View -> File Properties  ---- Or right click on edit window and select -> File Properties

Hash is case sensitive, so UNIX files will hash correctly.

In this section, we used 'NNNNNN' to denote the file name hash, 'ApplicationRoot'  to denote the path where Wed lives.

Initial backup of your file:

    Whenever you open a file, Wed saves the original under
         ApplicationRoot/wed/data/NNNNNN.bak
    If file is larger then 2 Mbytes, no initial backup is done.

Auto save after 30 seconds:

    If no key is pressed for 30 seconds, Wed saves the changed files in:
        ApplicationRoot/wed/data/NNNNNN.sav
    If file is larger then 2 Mbytes, no auto save is done.

Persistent undo information:

    File can also be reconstructed from the undo information. The undo is saved as a plain text, so it relatively easy to reconstruct the original data.

    Undo files can be found in:
        ApplicationRoot/wed/data/NNNNNN.udo

    Redo files can be found in:
        ApplicationRoot/wed/data/NNNNNN.rdo

These locations are also useful to clean out Wed created files from the system.

Unix Files:

Wed Limits:

Uninstall:

    ApplicationRoot/wed/data/*.*

Spell Check:

    Use: Shift-F7 or the Advanced menu -> Spell Check

Controlling spell check is easy. The popup window will give four options

•     Ignore       Wed will not check this word during this session
•     Learn        Wed will add the word to its custom dictionary
•     Stop          Stop spell check
•     Change    Change (correct) the word in document

String Spell Check:

Wed will parse source files for strings and comments, and spell checks inside the strings and comments. To invoke advanced spell check

    Use: Control-F7 or the Advanced menu -> Strings Spell Check

Wed will parse according to 'C, C++' language's string and comment rules. Please note that the parsing has a limited ability to handle complex syntax.

Dictionaries:

Dictionaries are simple text files, one word per line.

To modify the main dictionary, one can edit/replace:

     ApplicationRoot/wed/spell.txt

Be sure to delete spell.idx before proceeding. (Wed will rebuild the index)

To modify the custom dictionary, one can edit:

     ApplicationRoot/wed/spell.cus

No Index is needed here.

Foreign language dictionary:

Simply replace spell.txt with your version of the dictionary and delete spell.idx

Multiple open:

• Open                        Traditional open
• Multi open Src          Multi select open, remember directory as source directory
• Multi open Dest        Multi select open, remember directory as destination directory

Hit Mode:

    Copy/Paste operations - while in hit mode - copy only the lines that are hit. For example: hit mode can be used to display all function names in the code, highlighting and copying them will produce a list, that contains all the function prototypes.

    Macro recording  - while in hit mode - operate on only the lines that are hit.  For example: hit mode can be used to display all function names in the code, one can record an editing session that is applied to the hits only.

Pressing Enter or Esc will exit hit mode.

Tabs:

Hex Mode:

Use: Ctrl-K or Menu -> View -> Hex Mode

In Hex Mode the buffer is Read Only for character insertion/deletion.
Pressing Ctrl-K again will exit Hex Mode.
 

Locking The Keyboard

To Lock/Unlock the keyboard:

Use:  Menu -> Advanced  -> Lock/Unlock Keyboard
 

Wed Written by Peter Glen, 1999.