Re: Undocumented keyboard functions NB 3.0

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 Not N.B. 3.0, but I did use N.B. 4.5a a while back. I found it
 a bit quirky, and I eventually left it for XY4. Moreover, I
 don't think that I was getting as much out of it as I might
 have, and that was because most of the users seemed not to be as
 knowledgeable as they ought to have been, and certainly not as
 knowledgeable as XY users. And both of these programmes require
 a knowledgeable user-base. it seems to me. Neither of these
 programmes are "plug and play," as we know.

 I think that there was also a problem with N.B. 4.5a and large
 files. XY4 has no such problem, at least none that I have come
 across.

 M. W. Poirier

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On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Kari Eveli wrote:
> Some basic and very important features of NB 3.0 were left undocumented and unused in the N.B. 3.0
> release, namely
>
> DB keyboard function = move to beginning of define
> DE keyboard function = move to end of define
>
> as well as va$df for querying define status, where
> 0 = no define
> 1 = define open
> 2 = define closed
>
> These are fundamental for writing basic text editing programs.
>
> Another undocumented (at least in the Customization and Programming Guide) keyboard function is
> HF = help function, run a program located in the help file, e.g.
> hf,F = run the menu-based search program (in keyboard file).
>
> The intricacies of N.B. 3.0 help system were not revealed. In fact, the help system of N.B. 3.0 is
> totally customizable and can be harnessed to do many useful things.
>
> There may be other undocumented features I have not discovered as yet. I have tried newer versions
> of N.B. and XyWrite, but N.B. 3.0 is still best for me. Are there other N.B. 3.0 users among this
> list's subscribers?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Kari Eveli
> LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
> lexitec@xxxxxxxx