TED.COM

                Reference: PC Magazine November 15, 1988: 
                The tiniest editor you'll ever need by 
                Tom Kihlken. 

Summary of keys and commands:

Keypad keys:

        Up arrow        Moves cursor up one row
        Down arrow      Moves cursor down one row
        Left arrow      Moves cursor left one column
        Right arrow     Moves cursor right one column

        PgUp            Moves text window up one page
        PgDown          Moves text window down one page
        Home            Moves cursor to start of row
        End             Moves cursor to end of row
        Ins             Toggles insert/overstrike mode
        Del             Deletes character at cursor

        Ctrl-PgUp       Moves to top of file
        Ctrl-PgDown     Moves to bottom of file
        Ctrl-Right arro Moves text window right eight columns
        Ctrl-Left arrow Moves text window left eight columns

Editing functions:

                Editing  functions are shown on menu-bar at the  bottom
                row of the screen.

Function Key    Operation

        ABORT   F1      Exit without saving changes
        UNDO    F2      Replaces recently deleted characters
        PRINT   F3      Prints the marked text
        MARK    F4      Toggles mark state on/off
        CUT     F5      Moves marked text to paste buffer
        PASTE   F6      Inserts contents of paste buffer
        EXIT    F7      Saves changes and exits
        DEL EOL F8      Deletes from cursor to the end of line
        DEL L   F9      Deletes the current line
        UDEL L  F10     Inserts the last deleted line



Tiny EDitor TED
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Purpose:    A  small, full-screen editor for line-oriented files of up to
            64K in length that supports scrolling, cut, copy, paste and
            printing operations, and permits entry of (almost) all members
            of the IBM character set.

Usage:      TED [filespec]

Remarks:    TED will open and read a file whose name (and path, if required)
            are supplied initially.  If no filespec is provided, it will
            open a new file and prompt for a filename when F7 is pressed to
            save and exit.  The original of a modified file is saved with a
            .BAK extension.  The  ABORT command (F1), when verified,
            abandons any modifications and leaves the original file intact.

            Lines may be of any length, and each must be terminated by
            pressing enter.  Lines longer than the screen width display a
            diamond in the rightmost  column.  Offscreen characters (up to
            248 columns) may be viewed by using the Ctrl-arrow keys.  Lines
            may be broken by pressing Enter  at any point, and may be
            conflated by pressing Del at the line end.

            A block of text is defined by toggling the MARK command (F4) on
            and moving the cursor with the arrow keys.  The marked area is
            shown in inverse video.  Pressing F3 prints the blocked text;
            F5 (CUT) removes it to a  buffer from which it can be pasted
            (F6) at any point where cursor is located.  The paste buffer
            remains intact until another section is marked and cut.

            Pressing F8 deletes to  the  end  of a line; F9 deletes the
            entire line.  F10 restores the most recent deletion of F8 or F9.
            The UNDO command (F2) restores letters deleted by the Del (but
            not by the Backspace) key if the cursor has not been moved.

            The Home and End keys move the cursor to the beginning and end
            of the current screen line; the Tab key moves to the next column
            evenly divisible by eight.  Text is entered in insert mode by
            default; pressing the Ins key toggles to overstrike mode (I or
            O in rightmost end of the bottom row).  TED configures itself
            to the display in use and supports EGA and VGA text modes other
            than the standard 80 columns by 25 rows.  PgUp and PgDown scroll
            the file by the  number of rows displayed, minus 5.  Ctrl-PgUp
            and Ctrl-PgDown move to the top and bottom of the file.

            Any character in the IBM character set [except NULL] can be
            entered by pressing the Alt key, typing its ASCII value on the
            numeric keypad, then releasing the Alt key.  Normal control
            character can be entered by just simply typing it (formfeed
            can be entered by typing Ctrl-L, Bell can be entered by Ctrl-G
            etc.).

Missing     Move cursor one word left/right, include (read in another) file,
features:   search, search  and replace (and - of course - text processing
            features like hyphenation or reformatting of paragraphs.
            On-line help is not available but it is not needed.