a small wordstar like editor by Jeremy Hall
G is a general purpose programmable text editor for DOS and UNIX.
G is FreeWare (but an email would be appreciated!). G may be freely distributed.
Please email questions, problems, bugs etc to :-
jah@ilena.demon.co.uk
Jeremy Hall, Reading, England
Instructions for compiling G on various platforms are included in the initial comment at the start of g.c. The startup code crt0.asm is only for use with the Watcom C/C++ 10 for MSDOS (and is optional).
To use:
Having just unzipped G, you can try it right away by typing:-
g g.txt
To get help, press F1 (then press "return" to get each page), to get out of G, press ESC or F7. You can move around and make simple alterations to the text in the usual way, that is, use the arrow keys, page up/down, tabs etc. to move around, and the delete key and back arrow (at the top right) to remove characters. Text is simply typed in. All the WordStar commands require the "control" key to be pressed but they are not needed for simple edits.
To get into the text from the "home" area just press down arrow. Don't worry about the home area for now, this is where the powerful context editor commands are given. To exit and save the file back to disk, press F8.
The file g.txt contains the complete reference manual.