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Re: What Editor is best to use ?

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Andrew wrote:I am writing some code now - and I would love a better editor.
So - what editor do you recommend ?
MicroEMACS is the most powerful text editor available for our platform.
http://www.hunggartorino.it/ql/microema ... ulti-edit/

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Re: What Editor is best to use ?

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Regarding the QED problem - the drives are mapped correctly. And I get the same error regardless of the drive type (Mdv_, flp_, win_). Tonight I will document the issue and make some screen captures, so you can test if you can reproduce the issue on your system.

The Editor - I downloaded the latest version - 3.07. It loads and works. But I cannot change the configuration - the configuration program does not recognizes Editor as the correct version to be configured.
I did not had time to check the code - but at first glance the configuration program reads bytes 10 to 16 from the Editor and then checks if they form the string "Editor"
In version 3.07 the string "Editor" starts at byte 12 or 14 (i do not remember exactly and had no time to check)


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Re: What Editor is best to use ?

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Andrew wrote:Regarding the QED problem - the drives are mapped correctly. And I get the same error regardless of the drive type (Mdv_, flp_, win_). Tonight I will document the issue and make some screen captures, so you can test if you can reproduce the issue on your system.
I've tested it on Qemulator and was able to read a file successfully from mdv2_ when mapped to a Windows directory (could not test .WIN or .MDV files, my copy is not registered).
When you get something like mdv1_ prepended to a given filename this means that QED can't open the directory containing the filename as given so it prepends the TK2 default directory and tries again. One question - were you able to get a listing using DIR mdv2_ then?

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Re: What Editor is best to use ?

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Yes, I could get a listing using dir mdv2_ and I could load mdv2_file_bas and edit it with ED
When I get home from work I will redo all the steps and test again

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Re: What Editor is best to use ?

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janbredenbeek wrote:
Andrew wrote:Regarding the QED problem - the drives are mapped correctly. And I get the same error regardless of the drive type (Mdv_, flp_, win_). Tonight I will document the issue and make some screen captures, so you can test if you can reproduce the issue on your system.
I've tested it on Qemulator and was able to read a file successfully from mdv2_ when mapped to a Windows directory (could not test .WIN or .MDV files, my copy is not registered).
When you get something like mdv1_ prepended to a given filename this means that QED can't open the directory containing the filename as given so it prepends the TK2 default directory and tries again. One question - were you able to get a listing using DIR mdv2_ then?

Jan.
Ok - now I have more info:

TEST 1 - Load file from win3_

Step 1: attached QED to win2_, mdv2_, flp2
attached directory wit the basic file to win3_, mdv3_, flp3_
Result :OK

Step 2: test dir on win3_, mdv3_, flp3_ : Result :OK
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Step 3: Start QED and enter the filename
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Result: NOT OK
File is not loaded - and the filename entered has win1_ added in front of the name
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TEST 2 - Load file from win1_

Same as Test 1, but the file was in win1_. Same result NOT OK
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TEST 3 - Load file from win1_, but input file name without the preceding drive
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Result: Now it gets interesting. The file is automatically pre=fixed with mdv1_ and it is loaded, but at first it is not shown on screen
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But scrolling down past the first screen the text is starting to show:
But first 18 lines are not shown (or maybe they were shown but written with red ink on red paper ??, so the first screen just looked empty ??)
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But if you scroll back up the text is starting to be messed up with the text fro the first row (probably because of the window size bug that was fixed)
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Re: What Editor is best to use ?

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Maybe try extracting the files from the QED zip before running it - it might be something with the zip file being read only causing an issue..


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RWAP wrote:Maybe try extracting the files from the QED zip before running it - it might be something with the zip file being read only causing an issue..
I extracted QED - but it works exactly the same.


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I downloaded from github the new version
When I try to load win3_edt_config307_bas QED tries to create the file mdv2_win3_edt_config307_bas :?
(Qed is in win1_ )

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Hi Andrew,

When you say the drives are mapped correctly, can you show the drive mapping or maybe upload the Q-Emulator config file here so that we can see what you have setup.

I have attached a QXL.WIN file to Slot 1,2,3 which translates to MDV1(FLP1,WIN1),MDV2(FLP2,WIN2),MDV3(FLP3,WIN3), I have defined this in the Q-Emulator setup.

I have tested all editors which work correctly, which include:

QED, QED120c
DME
ELVIS
EditorSE
MircroEMACS (Pointer Environment required)
QD (Pointer Environment required) - Note commerical
Editor with BCPL, PorPascal, ProFortran

The only problems I had was when attaching a ZIP file, but that is not a error, as the ZIP file is read only and can not create a new file in the ZIP file. Or maybe that can be done as well.


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Re: What Editor is best to use ?

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Andrew wrote:I downloaded from github the new version
When I try to load win3_edt_config307_bas QED tries to create the file mdv2_win3_edt_config307_bas :?
(Qed is in win1_ )
I've not been able to reproduce the problem on Qemulator. What kind of medium was win3_ mapped to (Windows directory or MDV/WIN file)? Was it perhaps read-only?

Jan.


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