Level: Global
Dialog box: None
Save Settings handling: Not savable
Use SET AUTOCOLOR to determine the syntax coloring parser used for files with a specified extension.
When the default of COLORING ON AUTO is in effect for a file, KEDIT decides which parser to use for that file by examining the file's extension. If SET AUTOCOLOR has been used to specify a parser for that extension, KEDIT uses that parser to control syntax coloring for the file. The NULL parser, which does no syntax coloring, is used whenever a file has an extension for which no parser has been specified.
For example, the command
SET AUTOCOLOR .LNG LANGtells KEDIT to use the LANG parser (which must already have been defined via the SET PARSER command) for files with an extension of .LNG.
Parsers referred to in SET AUTOCOLOR commands must already be defined, either by being built into KEDIT or via the SET PARSER command.
SET AUTOCOLOR is automatically put into effect for the following extensions during KEDIT initialization:
| Extension | Parser |
|---|---|
| .BAS | BASIC |
| .FRM | BASIC |
| .C | C |
| .COB | COBOL |
| .COBOL | COBOL |
| .CBL | COBOL |
| .CPP | C |
| .CXX | C |
| .DLG | RESOURCE |
| .FOR | FORTRAN |
| .FORTRAN | FORTRAN |
| .F90 | FORTRAN |
| .F | FORTRAN |
| .H | C |
| .HPP | C |
| .HXX | C |
| .HTM | HTML |
| .HTML | HTML |
| .INI | INI |
| .JAV | JAVA |
| .JAVA | JAVA |
| .KEX | REXX |
| .KML | REXX |
| .REX | REXX |
| .KLD | KLD |
| .PAS | PASCAL |
| .DPR | PASCAL |
| .PRG | XBASE |
| .RC | RESOURCE |
Level: Global
Dialog box: Options SET Command
Save Settings handling: Savable
SET AUTOEXIT determines whether KEDIT automatically exits when the last file in the ring is closed.
With the default of AUTOEXIT OFF, KEDIT keeps running even if there are no files in the ring and all of its document windows have been closed. You can then begin editing other files, or you can use File Exit to close KEDIT's frame window and end your editing session.
With AUTOEXIT ON, your editing session ends whenever the last file is removed from the ring. Some KEDIT users prefer this behavior, because it is more like the behavior of text mode KEDIT and because it saves the extra step of closing KEDIT's frame window to exit KEDIT after closing the last file in the ring.
Level: File
Dialog box: Options SET Command
Save Settings handling: Not savable
When syntax coloring is active, KEDIT uses different colors to highlight different types of text. Syntax coloring is controlled by a language-specific parser. The parser scans the text in your file, decides which characters are parts of keywords, comments, strings, etc., and displays the text in the appropriate color; the specific colors used are determined by the SET ECOLOR command.
Syntax coloring parsers for several languages are built into KEDIT, and you can use KEDIT Language Definition files in connection with the SET PARSER command to load your own parser definitions.
The first operand to SET COLORING turns syntax coloring ON or OFF for the current file. When COLORING OFF is in effect, your file is displayed without syntax coloring. When COLORING ON is in effect, your file is displayed using the colors determined by the parser that you specify.
The second SET COLORING operand determines the parser to use for the current file:
With the AUTO operand, KEDIT uses a parser that is determined by the extension of the file you are editing. The parser that is used for a given extension is controlled via the SET AUTOCOLOR command.
If no parser is defined for a particular extension, KEDIT uses the NULL parser, which is a special dummy parser that doesn't actually apply any syntax coloring.
The
Level: Global
Dialog box: Options SET Command
Save Settings handling: Savable
The first two operands control the amount of space set aside in DIR.DIR
files for file names and for file extensions. To accommodate long
filenames, you can use the SET DIRFORMAT command to have KEDIT set
aside more columns for file names and for file extensions (i.e. everything
after the last period in a fileid). By default, the 32-bit version
of KEDIT sets aside 30 columns in DIR.DIR files for filenames and
10 columns for file extensions. The 16-bit version of KEDIT, which
does not support long filenames, uses 8 characters for file names
and 3 characters for file extensions.
As a special case, you can specify 0 as the value for file extensions.
This causes KEDIT to display the name and extension together as a
unit in the columns normally set aside for the file name.
The third operand of SET DIRFORMAT controls the number of digits used
to display the year in DIR.DIR files. It can be set to either 2 (the
default, which yields two-digit years, such as 96 or 97, in DIR.DIR
listings) or 4 (which yields four-digit years, such as 1996 or 2000).
SET DIRFORMAT does not have any effect on a DIR.DIR file that you
have already created; it only affects subsequent DIR commands. So
you should use SET DIRFORMAT before issuing a DIR command whose output
you want to affect.
Level: File
Dialog box: Options SET Command
Save Settings handling: Savable
When syntax coloring, enabled via the SET COLORING command, is active,
KEDIT uses different colors to highlight different types of text.
KEDIT includes a simple parser for each language with syntax coloring
support. The parser scans the text in your file, decides which characters
are parts of keywords, comments, strings, etc. and based on this decides
which of 35 emphasis types, referred to by the letters A through Z
and the numbers 1 through 9, to use for those characters. For example,
numbers used in most programming languages are given emphasis type
C, which is by default shown in dark red.
Here are the emphasis colors that KEDIT uses by default when MONITOR
WINDOWS is in effect:
Level: Global
Dialog box: Options SET Command
Save Settings handling: Savable
SET FCASE controls whether KEDIT handles all fileids internally in
lowercase or keeps them in mixed case, as is necessary to create and
preserve the mixed case fileids available under Windows 95/98/NT/2000/Me/XP.
SET FCASE is available only in the 32-bit version of KEDIT; the
16-bit version of KEDIT handles all fileids in lowercase.
With the default of FCASE ASIS (``as is''), KEDIT displays filenames
in the same case (upper, lower, or mixed) that the names have on disk,
and creates new files using exactly the combination of upper- and
lowercase characters that you specify. An exception comes within DIR.DIR
files, where names that are in lowercase or mixed case are displayed
as is, but names that are in uppercase are displayed in lowercase,
since this is generally easier to read.
With FCASE LOWER, KEDIT displays all filenames in lowercase in DIR.DIR
files and on the ID line, and in uppercase on the title bar. New files
are created with lowercase names, regardless of the case in which
you enter the name.
Level: Global
Dialog box: Options SET Command
Save Settings handling: Savable
Level: View
Dialog box: Options SET Command
Save Settings handling: Savable
Level: Global
Dialog box: Options SET Command
Save Settings handling: Savable
Tells KEDIT to search for macros in each of the directories
specified via the PATH variable in the system environment.
Tells KEDIT not to do a path search for macros. KEDIT
will look for macros only in memory and in the current directory.
Tells KEDIT to do a path search for macros, with the
list of directories to search found in the environment variable means search the C:\TEMP and E:\SOURCE directories,
then the directories listed in the INCLUDE environment variable, and
then the directory of the current file.
In order for the value of MACROPATH to affect KEDIT's initial search
for your profile, it needs to be set in an earlier KEDIT session and
then saved to KEDIT's INI file via the Options Save Settings dialog
box. You can also specify MACROPATH as a KEDIT initialization option,
and if you do so its value will override the value in KEDIT's INI
file.
When searching for macros, .KML files, .BMP files, and .KLD files,
KEDIT proceeds as follows: If a specific drive and/or directory is
specified, KEDIT looks only there. Otherwise, KEDIT looks first in
the current directory, next does a path search, as controlled by SET
MACROPATH, and next looks in the directory from which the KEDIT module
was loaded and in its USER and SAMPLES subdirectories. The search
ends successfully as soon as KEDIT finds the file it is looking for,
and ends in failure if the file cannot be located.
We normally recommend that macros that you create be kept in the USER
subdirectory of the directory where the KEDIT module is stored.
Level: Global
Dialog box: None
Save Settings handling: Not savable
The syntax coloring facility depends on language-specific parameter
files, known as KLD (KEDIT Language Definition) files, to determine
which text to display as comments, strings, keywords, etc. Use the
SET PARSER command to define a syntax coloring parser and load its
associated KLD file.
Use the
The
For example, if you were working with a hypothetical language called
LANG and you had described the language in a KEDIT Language Definition
file called LANGDEF.KLD, you could define a parser called LANG with
the command
If files in your language always had an extension of, for example,
.LNG, you could use the SET AUTOCOLOR command to tell KEDIT to always
use the LANG parser for .LNG files:
The following parser definitions are automatically put into effect
at KEDIT initialization:
If you want your own KLD file to be used in place of one of KEDIT's
built-in KLD files, you can use a SET PARSER command that specifies
the appropriate parser name along with your KLD file. For example
Level: Global
Dialog box: Options SET Command
Save Settings handling: Savable
KEDIT looks for your file in each of the directories
specified via the PATH environment variable.
Tells KEDIT not to do a PATH search for your file. KEDIT
will look for the file only in the current directory.
Tells KEDIT to do a path search for files, with the
list of directories to search found in the environment variable means search the C:\TEMP and E:\SOURCE directories,
then the directories listed in the PATH environment variable, and
then the directory of the current file.
In order for the value of PATH to affect KEDIT's search for files
added to the ring at the start of a KEDIT session, it needs to be
set in an earlier KEDIT session and then saved to KEDIT's INI file
via the Options Save Settings dialog box. You can also specify PATH
as a KEDIT initialization option, and if you do so its value will
override the value in KEDIT's INI file.
When searching for files to be edited, KEDIT proceeds as follows:
If a specific drive and/or directory is specified, KEDIT looks only
there. Otherwise, KEDIT looks first in the current directory, then
does a path search controlled by SET PATH, and then looks in the directory
from which KEDIT was loaded and in the USER and SAMPLES subdirectories
of that directory. The search ends successfully as soon as KEDIT finds
the file it is looking for; if the file cannot be located, KEDIT assumes
you want to edit a new file with the specified name in the current
directory.
The default value of *PATH;*INCLUDE;= tells KEDIT that its path search
should involve looking in each of the directories listed in the PATH
environment variable and the INCLUDE environment variable and then
in the directory of the current file.
Level: Global
Dialog box: Options SET Command
Save Settings handling: Savable
SET PRINTPROFILE lets you change the name of the profile executed
when the Windows Explorer invokes KEDIT to print an associated file.
You can use the Windows Explorer to specify that KEDIT will be the
application used to print files with certain extensions. Once a file
extension has been associated with KEDIT, you can select a file with
that extension in the Windows Explorer and choose Print from the button
2 context menu to have the file printed by KEDIT. You can also have
KEDIT print the file by dragging the file within the Windows Explorer
to your default printer icon.
When the Windows Explorer uses KEDIT to print a file, KEDIT is invoked
with a command like
Level: View
Dialog box: Options SET Command
Save Settings handling: Savable
There is also a new form of the SET TABS command that lets you specify
a set of specific tab columns and then specify that tabs will be set
every
Parser Used With
C C and C++ programs
REXX KEXX and REXX programs
HTML HTML documents
JAVA Java programs
COBOL COBOL programs
FORTRAN FORTRAN programs
PASCAL Pascal and Delphi programs
KLD the KEDIT Language Definition files described in Chapter 8, ``KEDIT Language Definition Files''
INI INI files
BASIC BASIC programs
XBASE xBase programs
RESOURCE the RC and DLG files used in Windows program development
NULL dummy parser that doesn't actually apply syntax coloring
Notes
SET DIRFORMAT
Format
[Set] DIRFORMat fname fext year
KEDIT default: (32-bit version) 30 10 2
KEDIT default: (16-bit version) 8 3 2
Changes
The first two operands of SET DIRFORMAT are new in KEDIT for Windows
1.5; they let you control the amount of room set aside within DIR.DIR
files for file names and file extensions.
Description
SET DIRFORMAT controls the output format used by KEDIT's DIR command.
SET ECOLOR
Format
[Set] ECOLOR a foreground [ON background]
KEDIT default: See the table below
[Set] ECOLOR a DEFAULTChanges
In KEDIT for Windows 1.0, there were 16 different emphasis types (A -- P)
whose colors you could control. In KEDIT for Windows 1.5, there are
35 different emphasis types (A -- Z and 1 -- 9). The details of
which emphasis types control which type of program text (labels, keywords,
etc.) have changed, so you may need to make some adjustments to your
existing ECOLOR settings.
Description
SET ECOLOR (``emphasis color'') controls the colors used by KEDIT's
syntax coloring facility.
Letter Color Language Element
A dark green comments
B dark cyan strings
C dark red numbers
D blue keywords
E dark red labels
F dark red preprocessor keywords
G red header lines
H black extra right paren, matchable keyword
I blue level 1 paren
J blue level 1 matchable keywords
K dark red level 1 matchable preprocessor keywords
L dark green level 2 paren, matchable keyword
M red level 3 paren, matchable keyword
N dark cyan level 4 paren, matchable keyword
O dark magenta level 5 paren, matchable keyword
P gray level 6 paren, matchable keyword
Q dark blue level 7 paren, matchable keyword
R magenta level 8 or higher paren, matchable keyword
S magenta incomplete strings
T blue HTML markup tags
U red HTML character and entity references
V -- Z black not currently used
1 red alternate keyword color 1
2 dark blue alternate keyword color 2
3 dark red alternate keyword color 3
4 dark magenta alternate keyword color 4
5 dark green alternate keyword color 5
6 dark cyan alternate keyword color 6
7 red alternate keyword color 7
8 black alternate keyword color 8
9 blue alternate keyword color 9
SET FCASE
Format
[Set] FCASE ASIS|LOWER
KEDIT default: (32-bit version only) ASIS
Description
SET FCASE is new in KEDIT for Windows 1.5.
SET FILEOPEN
Format
[Set] FILEOPEN SINGLE|MULTIPLE
KEDIT default: SINGLE
Description
Under Windows 3.1 and Windows NT 3.51, there are two slightly different
versions of the File Open dialog box, and the SET FILEOPEN command
determines which of the two KEDIT will use. Under Windows 95/98/NT 4/2000/Me/XP,
the multiple file version of the File Open dialog box is always
available and SET FILEOPEN has no effect.
SET FORMAT
Format
[Set] FORMAT Justify|NOJustify [BLANK|EXTENded
KEDIT default: NOJUSTIFY BLANK DOUBLE
[SIngle|DOuble]]Changes
When FORMAT JUSTIFY|NOJUSTIFY EXTENDED is in effect, KEDIT for Windows
now treats lines with less than (``<'', used with HTML tags) or greater
than (``>'', used to quote text in e-mail messages) in column 1 as
the start of a new paragraph.
SET MACROPATH
Format
[Set] MACROPath ON|OFF|envvar|dirlist
KEDIT default: PATH
Changes
The Description
SET MACROPATH controls the path search done by KEDIT when you want
to run a macro that cannot be found in memory or in the current directory. It
also controls the path search done by the DEFINE command when you
load a macro or a .KML file into memory, by the SET TOOLBUTTON command
when you load a bitmap file from disk, and by the SET PARSER command
when you load a KEDIT Language Definition file.
[Set] MACROPath ON
[Set] MACROPath OFF
[Set] MACROPath envvar
SET MACROPATH dirlist
SET MACROPATH C:\TEMP;E:\SOURCE;*INCLUDE;=
SET PARSER
Format
[Set] PARSER parser fileid
KEDIT default: See the table below
Description
SET PARSER is new in KEDIT for Windows 1.5.
SET PARSER LANG LANGDEF.KLD
After issuing the SET PARSER command, you could then issue the command
SET COLORING ON LANG
to use this parser to control syntax coloring for the current file.
SET AUTOCOLOR .LNG LANG
SET PARSER commands are typically executed from your KEDIT profile
when KEDIT is initially loaded. For example:
* if first profile execution in a session,
* setup the LANG parser and then
* cause all .LNG files to be colored using the LANG parser
if initial() then do
'set parser lang langdef.kld'
'set autocolor .lng lang'
end
Several language definitions are built into KEDIT, and when KEDIT
is loaded it automatically issues SET PARSER commands that use these
language definitions to set up its default parsers. To distinguish
these internal language definition files from actual disk files, KEDIT
uses an asterisk as the first character of their names. For example,
the command
SET PARSER C *C.KLD
tells KEDIT to use *C.KLD as the Language Definition File associated
with the C parser. The asterisk in the name tells KEDIT to use the
special file *C.KLD, which is built into KEDIT, and not to look for
the file on disk.
Parser File
BASIC *BASIC.KLD
C *C.KLD
COBOL *COBOL.KLD
FORTRAN *FORTRAN.KLD
HTML *HTML.KLD
JAVA *JAVA.KLD
INI *INI.KLD
KLD *KLD.KLD
PASCAL *PASCAL.KLD
REXX *REXX.KLD
RESOURCE *RESOURCE.KLD
XBASE *XBASE.KLD
NULL *NULL.KLD
SET PARSER C NEWC.KLD
would use your NEWC.KLD file in place of the built-in *C.KLD file.
SET PATH
Format
[Set] PATH ON|OFF|envvar|dirlist
KEDIT default: *PATH;*INCLUDE;=
Changes
The Description
SET PATH controls the path search done by KEDIT when you use the KEDIT
command or the GET command and specify a file's name and extension
but no drive specifier or path and the file that you specify cannot
be found in the current directory.
[Set] PATH ON
[Set] PATH OFF
[Set] PATH envvar
SET PATH dirlist
SET PATH C:\TEMP;E:\SOURCE;*PATH;=
SET PRINTPROFILE
Format
[Set] PRINTPROFile fileid
KEDIT default: PRINTPROFILE
Description
SET PRINTPROFILE is new in KEDIT for Windows 1.5.
KEDITW32 /P fileid
When KEDIT sees /P as its first parameter it takes this a signal to
run the profile specified via the SET PRINTPROFILE option, instead
of your normal profile. This special profile should contain commands
to print your file and then exit from KEDIT. An appropriate default
profile, PRINTPROFILE, is built into KEDIT, so most KEDIT users will
not need to change the value of the PRINTPROFILE option.
SET TABS
Format
[Set] TABs n1 [n2 n3 ...]
KEDIT default: INCR 8
[Set] TABs INCR n
[Set] TABs n1 [n2 ...] INCR nChanges
SET TABS INCR has been enhanced to set tab columns extending through
the current WIDTH setting. In the past, SET TABS INCR would set a
maximum of 32 tab columns.
TABS 1 10 16 30 40 INCR 5
This sets columns 1, 10, 16, 30, and 40, then columns 45, 50 55, 60,
etc. as tab columns.
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