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From: carl@gergo.tamu.edu (Carl Perkins)
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Subject: Re: Is this Sci-Fi?
Date: 17 Apr 1995 22:13 CST
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<01HPG8K4GE2A8WWQMG@kopc.hhs.dk>, Arne Vajhoej <ARNE@ko.hhs.dk> writes...
}> The corporation in wich I am employed are currently operating with a couple
}> of VAX 4000's and approx 150 local, and remote users. This has whatever no
}> relation to my question. One of my tasks is to read files from both diskettes
}> (via Pathworks), and tapes, (directly connected with the VAX). The diskette-
}> files I can (of course), check on any editor or database on my PC. The
}> problem arises when I want to check the fixed-lenght-record files I have read
}> from tapes on to the disks used by the VAX.
}> The editor I have been forced to use, is EDT. For records under 80 characters
}> this is like icecream on a hot summer day, but all the records I'm supposed
}> to check is in the area of 140-300 characters wide.
}> 
}> I have been told that I "just" can go to position 79, or whatever, press
}> <ENTER> and by doing so get a good overlook over the file's contents. This
}> doesn't strike me to be a good way of working. So what I am really asking
}> is this:
}>          Is there anybody out there who know about any good editor wich
}>          enables me to scroll past the 80-character border?
} 
}Switch to EVE and use the commands:
} 
}SHIFT LEFT 80
}SHIFT RIGHT 80
} 
}to shift the window from column 1-80 <-> 81-160 <-> 161-240 ... !
} 
}Arne Vajhj                             local DECNET:  KO::ARNE

Or, if you need to keep using EDT, add something like the following two
lines to your edtini.edt initialization file.
Define Key GOLD L as "SHL."
Define Key GOLD R as "SHR."

This makes Gold-L and Gold-R shift you onw tab stop in the specified direction.
If you want to shift farther, put a number between the first " and the S
and you'll shift that many tab stops. I.E. to get an 80 character shift,
assuming the usual 8 character tab stops, use
Define Key GOLD L as "10SHL."
Define Key GOLD R as "10SHR."

By the way - if you're wondering where to get help for the commands you can use
in key definitions (other than the printed manual), from inside EDT at the
"*" prompt the yare listed in "help change subcommands", which is not exactly
the intuatively obvious place to look.

--- Carl
