Re: TED--a Linux Xy-type editor?

["Robert H. Kubie" rhkubie@xxxxxxxx]

Thank you very much. I will experiment.

--Bob Kubie


At 02:55 PM 8/19/2004, you wrote:
> Robert H. Kubie wrote
> ≪[I] have never learned if there is a Windows equivalent to a DOS batch
> file. ≫
>
> Well, first of all, DOS batch files work under Windows: You can write a
> batch file, create a shortcut to it on the desktop, and run it by
> double-clicking. (You may recall that a while back I was creating XyWrite
> programs to write the batch files to automatically update them.) You can
> even create a batch file to run a Windows application: start "c:\Program
> Files\whatever.exe"; the following switches can be entered before the
> fully qualified path of the app
> / m   run minimized
> /max  run maximized
> /r   run restored
> /w   wait until the other program exits to execute the next command in the
> batch file.
>
> Windows also has its own Windows Scripting Host (WSH), which can run
> VisualBasicScript or JavaScript files, which can be created with a plain
> text editor. Search the archives for WSH, because Robert Holmgren gave me
> some very good advice and examples of VBS scripts a while back (late Oct.
> early Nov. 2003). Much as I HATE to say anything good about MicroSquid, I
> have to say that I've been playing around with VBS since then, and am
> finding it really useful. Of course, BBBG thinks all you'd want to do
> with it is gussy up Web pages, so the docs don't tell you what you want
> to know if you're trying to do the kind of low-level stuff we used to use
> BAT files for, or want to push the envelope and do stuff that BAT files
> cannot. I was lucky enough to find a book that listed all the commands
> and functions (though hardly anything else); it's from O'Reilly (you
> know: all those computer books with Dover press pictures of animals,
> birds, or reptiles--no bugs, of course--on the covers), but it's over in
> the office right now, so I cannot recall the author or exact title.
>
> Is anyone else familiar with EditPad(http://www.editpadpro.com)? The
> freeware (well, he wants a picture postcard, but no cash) version,
> EditPad Classic, is a nice text editor, and apparently the full version
> is a programmer's editor with lots of hooks to programming languages. I
> have several times thought that the guy who writes this (a Hollander by
> the name of Jan Goyvaerts) might be just the person to port XyWrite to
> Linux or even to Win Native, could we just get the rights.
>
> Patricia