Quickie navigation

[Tim Baehr/Inso Tim_Baehr@xxxxxxxx]

You can open, close, and delete files with just a few keystrokes
-- handy if you're reviewing a long list of files. This
involves some minor surgery in your keyboard file, but it's
worth it.
1. Copy your keyboard file (XY4.KBD or XW.KBD) to a new filename (like MY.KBD).
2. Open MY.KBD.
3. Search for Table=Ctrl+Shift. Then search for 32=. That's the
key assignment for Ctrl+Shift+D.
4. Delete the stuff to the right of the equal sign (it's a jump
to a rather lame drawing routine, which is available in the
menus anyway).
5. Put this to the right of the equal sign:
BX,d,i,r,Q2,BC,C,A,L,L,GT
Make sure you get all the commas. This is all ordinary text, by
the way -- you don't need to put in BX,Q2, etc., as function
calls.
6. Now go up a few lines to 20=, which is the key assignment for
Ctrl+Shift+T.
7. Delete the space to the right of the equal sign.
8. Put this to the right of the equal sign:
BX,a,b,/,n,v,Q2,BX,r,s,Q2,BC,C,A,L,L, ,GT
Remember the commas.
9. Go to 21=, the key assignment for Ctrl+Shift+Y.
10. Delete the space to the right of the equal sign.
11. Put this to the right of the equal sign:
GT,BC,d,e,l,/,n,v,GT,XC,BC,C,A,L,L, ,GT
12. Save this file and load it (F5, load my.kbd, Enter).

Set up this default:
F5,D NW=2,Enter
You can put it in your STARTUP.INT file as BX d NW=2 Q2 ;*;
(In this case the BX and Q2 are function calls -- type them in
from the command line as 'pfun bx' and 'pfun q2' [without the
quotation marks].)

Now when you press Ctrl+Shift+D, you get a listing of the files
in the current directory. The command "CALL" is put on the
command line. Just scroll down to the file you want and press Enter.
When you're done looking at the file, and you don't want to
modify or save it, press Ctrl+Shift+T to Terminate. The file
will go away, and the file list will reappear, with the
highlight on the file you just looked at. If you want to remove
the file from your disk, press Ctrl+Shift+Y. It will disappear
from your disk and from the file list. Otherwise, just cursor
down to the next file and press Enter.

If you like what happens, you can change your STARTUP.INT file to
load MY.KBD instead of the other one. You'll need to exit
XyWrite and restart it for all these changes to take effect.

This may look complicated, but mostly only because I've broken it
down into many steps. Basically you're just creating a new
keyboard file with three new key assignments and then typing two
modifications into your STARTUP.INT file.

Happy navigating!