Re: Minitrue

[urqurw@xxxxxxxx (Russ W. Urquhart)]

> On 9/29/98 Russ Urquhart wrote:
> >Here is the minitrue home page and the URL. Hope that this helps!
> >http://www.pagesz.net/~minitrue/
>
> All I can say is "Wow!" Thanks for letting us know about this excellent
> search and replace program. I use XY 3.55+ and was always frustrated that I
> had no way of making global search and replacements across multiple files.
> Minitrue gives me ability, from a single keystroke within Xywrite,
> functioning just as if it were part of XY.
>
> To do this, I downloaded Minitrue, and put the files into a directory dubbed
> c:\minitrue.
>
> Then I wrote the following macro in my keyboard.kbd file, assigning it to my
> key of choice:
>
> =BC,d,o, ,c,:,\,m,i,n,i,t,r,u,e,\,m,t, ,/,f,q, ,*,.,*, ,=,CL
>
> Hitting this one keystroke places the above command on the command line,
> with the cursor waiting for me to type in the pertinent text to find and
> replace. The /fq switches above are Minitrue switches--f prevents line
> wrap-arounds from spliting words in half, and q bypasses Minitrue's opening
> screen.
>
> After entering the text and hitting ENTER, Minitrue immediately searches and
> replaces within the Xywrite directory that I have been working in. If I
> merely want to search, without replacing, I merely have to type over the "="
> sign and enter only one string.
>
> Really great! My only complaint (which is quite petty) is that I'd like to
> be able to change Minitrue's screen colors. If only all problems in life
> were as bad.
>

I'm glad that everyone found this program as usefull as i did! I have been
wondering if there is a later version around? If anyone finds out anything,
please let me know!

I think that its great that we can still find a lot of well-crafted applications
like Xywrite, that run in the DOS world, and are fast and bloat free!

Thanks for the keyboard command!


Russ