EDITOR SECTION 7. 1
INTRODUCTION
7,1 Hunter's built-in text editor provides practical text handling
facilities,
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It may be used for the creation and alteration of standard ASCII text
files for reports, correspondence, etc. This feature is invaluable
for text entry 'on the move' in trains, planes or any other form of
transport. Text may then be easily printed out on return to the
office,
Husky Basic files, which are encoded to save memory and execution
time, may also·be edited directly, These files are recognised by
their use of the .HBA suffix, It is important, therefore, co
maintain the .HBA suffix convention when attempting to edit Basic
programs.
NOTE: Encoded source files for other interpreted programs e.g.
MBASIC cannot be edited with this editor.
Automatic Cont Edit
On entry to the Editor from either Basic or Demos, the HUNTER is
forced into Cont mode. This applies even if the Editor has been
initiated but the HUNTER is still converting a Basic tokenised
program into its text equivalent and the normal Editor screen is not
yet displayed,
If the HUNTER is now powered down, either by manually pressing the
power key or by auto-timeout due to lack of keyboard operation, then
on power up the HUNTER re-enters the Editor and continues operation
from where it ceased at power down. This applies in all cases e.g.
midway through a search, writing to a file or exiting to Basic and
recreating a Basic tokenised file from its text equivalent. This
feature ensures that all data entered into the Hunter whilst in the
Editor is always accessible to the user. On exit from the Editor,
either by 'Exit' or 'Save', the HUNTER is forced out of Cont mode
automatically. Thus,
if the HUNTER is powered down, then it will
power up normally.
Editor program size check
When the Editor is initiated, an automatic check on the file size is
carried out. Since the Editor uses only the TPA for its work space,
if a text file greater in length than the TPA is attempted to be
edited, a warning message will be displayed and the operation will be
aborted.
NOTE: The file will not have been changed in any way and the Hunter
will not be in auto Cont mode.
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