Turbotext Brief
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Does anyone out there know if the 'BRIEF' macros for TurboText can be made
to operate in a sensible manner.
I am a '386 (yuchh) programmer who uses Brief every day, and would like to
use a familiar editor on my A-2000.
I have installed AREXX and the Brief emulator.
My problems lie in the fact that the Amiga numeric keys remain numeric (no
page-up, page-down, arrow, end, or home keys!).
A quick glance at the manual indicates that Turbotext should be able to
handle all but the most complex Brief features, but it would be nice to
know if the emulator has any known limitations. Maybe I just know how to
enable the 'extended' brief features.
Oxxi Has been unable to answer any questions concerning emulations. This
bothers me.
The TurboText manual says the Brief macros were written by Jamie Clark,
although Oxxi doesn't seem to know or care about this.
ANY info would be appreciated.
Ron Flory, 71053,3551
Hello, Jamie.
To use the numeric keypad keys as cursor keys, do the following:
1. Check the file "Turbotext:support/TTX_Startup.dfn" to see if you have
"Turbotext:support/TTX_PCNumPad.dfn" listed under the "Links" section,
which is probably toward the end of the TTX_Startup.dfn file. This tells
ttx to incorporate the key definitions in "TTX_PCNumPad.dfn", but you
still have to activate them when editing by:
2. Press Shift-NumPad-( {the parenthesis on the numeric pad}, and this
will toggle the numeric pad when editing. If this still doesn't work,
check TTX_PCNumPad.dfn for the line "SHIFT-NP_NUML SetMode Toggle" and
insert it at the beginning if it isn't there.
If this still doesn't work. leave me a message and we can try to figure it
out.
David Dunn 71250,2261