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

[Patricia M Godfrey pmgodfrey@xxxxxxxx]

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