re: CONTEST: Another nolo

[OkAnnie@xxxxxxxx]

I too salute Tim's initiative as stimulant to the language, but
as a contestant I'm a nonstarter. I do xpl in v3,
noncompetitively and probably eccentrically. I couldn't hope to
pick one favorite from the multipurpose several that form my
xyWrite interface, all inextricable from my hypercustomized *.kbd
and useless to anyone reluctant to, in effect, learn a new app
(one that owes a large debt to the Leading Edge Word Processor
interface, which imo should have been the model for CUA, however
much of a dog LEWP was under the hood). The lone prize that could
motivate me to compete is total liberation of v4 from dialog
boxes and menus.

Most xpl I've written in recent months has been system-specific
v3 code that tries in vain to impose order on the 'net info glut,
with some breaks to code v3 stuff inspired by v4 innovations.
Browsing v4 docs, when I noted that one key cycles through case
options, I stopped reading and wrote v3 !CC (E = epsilon) ... BC
{sv86,ccuc}{if{is00}E{is86}}==0}uc{ex}
{ei}{if{is00}E{is86}}==2}lc{ex} {ei}cc{ex}
... and assigned it to a key (one I use often since I turned on
au, which I'm fond of anyway): 00=GH,EL,SI,r,u,n, ,!,c,c,
,CI,XC,GT,CL,XC
I've had char, word, and paragraph transposition keys as long as
I've used xyWrite. Haven't you? I replaced sentence transposition
with a routine that transposes words around (often) a
conjunction; changes "goose nor gefilte" to
"gefilte nor goose" (maybe you had to have been there ;) ):
00=XD,RW,PW,PW,UD,RW,NW,UD,XD
(v4: assumes d un=0)

!B is a 5127-byte v3 xpl Christmas tree that gives everything I
could think of that relates to text blocks a coherent interface.
!B begins a defined block and exits--or, if it finds a block has
been started, it concludes the define at the cursor position and,
responding to an argument from any of--count 'em--16 dedicated
keys, !B can:
* transfer the block from display to memory
 (i.e., RD, which I use instead of MV or CP)
* sort the block
* change the block's case
* convert the block to uc
* convert the block to lc
* append the block to the file designated in the arg
* save the block as the file designated in the arg (i.e., sad)
* type block to disk (waits, ernvs print.tmp)
 (could but doesn't type block to printer)
* display a directory of keyholds--
 my private term for @a-z/@0-9 save/gets (i.e., SD) ...
 In the next cases except the last, !B looks for a single
a-z/0-9
 char on the command line. If found, !B skips the prompt and
{rc}
 it otherwise presents before performing the indicated action:
* a-z/0-9:show readout for which @keyhold? (i.e., SK)
* a-z/0-9:       zap which @keyhold? (i.e., remove)
* a-z/0-9: save string to which @keyhold? (i.e., SV)
* a-z/0-9:  add string to which @keyhold? (i.e., AD)
* a-z/0-9: insert which @keyhold in text?
 (replaces default .kb3 @a-z/0-9 table)
* a-z/0-9:which @keyhold string to CMline?
* a-z/0-9:CMline string to which @keyhold?
If {rc} is ?, !B displays SD dir and loops to {rc}. !B keys look
like: 76=&L,BC,r,u,n, ,!,b, ,?,XC
The macro assigned to &L stores the CMline; !B restores it before exit. ...

I open files with one of two kludges: My edp key automatically
opens xpl files as XP and ci's to lc xpl code that v4 offensively
capitalizes. My ed key runs an xpl macro that tests for stray LFs
and CRs and if it finds them offers to convert them to (normal
xyW/80x86) newlines. When !FIXCR.XY3 choked xyDos 4, I ported
it--my first. Since some subscribers have complained of
interplatform eol incompatibility, I'm including !FIXCR.XD4 here
XXBUGged and--for anyone like myself whose system is
uncontaminated by either MS and
IBM dos ;) and thus is shunned by debug, or whose system is as
xxencoding-hostile as mine--a uuencoded version. (XXBUG's debug
script is hardcoded: no need for debug to create XXBUG files.)
!FIXCR.XY3 requires a custom .hl3 entry, so I'm omitting it, but
will share it, !B, or the lc-xpl key entry with any other v3
hardnose who wants to try any or all.   --A

========================== annie fisher  nyc

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XXBUG version: Save text between dotted lines that follow as
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