If running edit over a slow serial line, you can optionally eliminate the periods (.) at the end of the file and in the status line. Specify lowbaud in your environment. You can use redirection to send a set of commands to the editor, so you can actually edit a set of files by "remote control". Use this trick when you have standard changes to make to a lot of files. See the Applix demo disk for an elaborate example. Fancy text If you embed terminal control characters or escape sequences in a text, you can display bold , underline, italics , subscript , and superscript text (or any reasonable mixture). The $29.95 Dr Doc editor uses these extensively, and also will allow them to be printed.
However, any 1616/OS command that writes text to the display ( cat, type ) will also work. These sequences are displayed or used whenever the Applix 1616 encounters them, thus making it relatively easy to employ fancy text in your text files. Test them by using to embed an key in your text. Thus, from the keyboard, echo will put the display into bold mode, etc. Listed below to star in your text are the main sequences that produce text attributes. The full list of escape sequences is in the 1616/OS Reference Section at the end of this manual, after the term entry. ^G Beep speaker 7. ^L Clear screen 12. ESC ) Start highlighting. ESC ( End highlighting.
ESC * Clear the screen, or current window. ESC B (value+32) Sets the background colour to ‘value’. ESC b Visible bell. ESC F (value+32) Sets the foreground colour to ‘value’. ESC G 1 Sets subscript mode. ESC G 2 Sets superscript mode. ESC G 4 Sets bold mode. ESC G 8 Sets underline mode. ESC G @ Sets italic mode. ESC G 0 Clears subscript, superscript, underline, bold and italic modes. ESC S (value+32) Sets the border colour to ‘value’. Ctrl P Esc Ctrl P Esc G 4 Page 54 User Tutorial Manual Edit: The Screen Editor