OpenEuphoria

Re: ed on XP

• Posted by "Greg Haberek" <g.haberek at comcast.net> Dec 19, 2003
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I tried this. Now Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End don't work. I use these a lot. Any
solution?

Also, I copied ed.bat to edw.bat so i can run with ex.exe or exwc.exe. Just
a tip.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Craig" <rds at RapidEuphoria.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: ed on XP


>
>
> Lately I've been doing a lot of editing,
> converting thousands of lines of C to Euphoria.
> This is all part of the project to convert the
> Euphoria "front-end" and translator to Euphoria.
>
> I'm noticing that when running ed on XP
> there's a tiny, almost imperceptible, delay from the
> time I hit a key to the time it's echoed on the screen.
> This didn't used to happen on earlier versions of Windows,
> not even on my old 486 running Windows 3.1, so it's
> not that Euphoria itself is slow.
> I'm now running a Pentium-4 and the delay sometimes
> throws my timing off a bit so I, say, delete an extra
> character that I didn't intend to, etc.
>
> I think Microsoft on XP has chosen to emulate DOS
> screen I/O in a very slow way. I know on NT they used to
> introduce an extra process to handle the simulated
> DOS screen, so the characters that you typed were
> transmitted from one process to another.
>
> Anyway, I've found a really easy solution.
> Do the following:
>      1. run:
>             makecon.exw
>         in euphoria\bin
>         You can double-click it. This will create exwc.exe,
>         a console-oriented version of exw.exe.
>
>      2. edit euphoria\bin\ed.bat, replacing "ex.exe" with "exwc.exe"
>
> Now when you run ed, it will use the Windows console version of
> Euphoria instead of the DOS version to interpret ed.ex.
> ed seems to run fine. I'm using a 43-line console window in XP
> to match the default setting in ed.ex. The slight typing delay
> is gone, and ed starts up instantly.
>
> On older versions of Windows, I think you should stick with ex.exe.
>
> Note: you could simply use exw.exe. It's just that you'll
> have an extra console window on your desktop while you edit.
>
> Regards,
>     Rob Craig
>     Rapid Deployment Software
>     http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
>
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