Topic: Macro compatibility across OS versions (1 of 5), Read 22 times Conf: VEDIT Macro Language Support From: Scott Lambert Date: Saturday, July 31, 2010 05:36 PM How important is it to people here that a macro uploaded here work regardless of the OS version of Vedit? For example Vedit 6.x comes with several Windows version only commands, if used, the resulting macro won't then work in the DOS version or any of the others. Vedit has the OS_Type command, so it is possible to write macros that work across OS versions of Vedit, but still takes full advantage of the commands in each OS version. This entails more coding, so I am wondering how important this is to the group here? Is anyone reading this using a version other then the Windows or DOS version of Vedit? Scott

Topic: Macro compatibility across OS versions (2 of 5), Read 23 times Conf: VEDIT Macro Language Support From: Ian Binnie Date: Sunday, August 01, 2010 03:52 AM On 7/31/2010 5:36:08 PM, Scott Lambert wrote: > >How important is it to people >here that a macro uploaded >here work regardless of the OS >version of Vedit? For example >Vedit 6.x comes with several >Windows version only commands, >if used, the resulting macro >won't then work in the DOS >version or any of the others. > >Vedit has the OS_Type command, >so it is possible to write >macros that work across OS >versions of Vedit, but still >takes full advantage of the >commands in each OS version. >This entails more coding, so I >am wondering how important >this is to the group here? The DOS version won't work with any version of Windows later than XP. I would be more interested in seeing Vedit keep up - and support Unicode (at least Unicode filenames). This requires 2K at minimum, but even Microsoft has abandoned versions older than XP.

Topic: Macro compatibility across OS versions (3 of 5), Read 22 times Conf: VEDIT Macro Language Support From: Peter Rejto Date: Sunday, August 01, 2010 11:53 AM On 7/31/2010 5:36:08 PM, Scott Lambert wrote: >Is anyone reading this using a >version other then the Windows >or DOS version of Vedit? Scott, I am not sure that the following two examples of mine are relevant or not. Let me give them anyway. Example 1. I am running the MikTex compiler from my Vedit user menu, to compile my tex files. Since MikTex is a Windows program I am only using the Windows version of Vedit. Example 2. I am using a "graphics package" in Miktex and so I have to look at some of the supporting files. One of these supporting files looks very strange, too many "LF" symbols. So, I thought to use the Vedit {File, Edit, Convert, Unix to Dos} menu command. I was lucky, all of a sudden, the file is cleaned up. So, in some sense I am using Unix commands. -peter

Topic: Macro compatibility across OS versions (4 of 5), Read 15 times Conf: VEDIT Macro Language Support From: Pauli Lindgren Date: Friday, August 06, 2010 03:54 AM On 7/31/2010 5:36:08 PM, Scott Lambert wrote: > > Is anyone reading this using a > version other then the Windows > or DOS version of Vedit? That is unlikely, since there has not been other than Windows and DOS versions of VEDIT available for ages. Some people may still use the CP/M version of Vedit (which is freeware now), and maybe Vedit still comes with the (freeware) QNX 4.0 operating system. But those are old version that use the old macro language. But I hope the Linux version of Vedit will be made some day. Some of my macros (such as ctags.vdm) have both Windows and DOS version in the same file. If the macro was originally made for DOS and you create a new UI for Windows, it is easy to add the OS_Type command and keep the old UI for DOS. But if you make a new macro (where the UI is essential), it may not be worth the trouble to worry about DOS compatibility. -- Pauli

Topic: Macro compatibility across OS versions (5 of 5), Read 14 times Conf: VEDIT Macro Language Support From: Scott Lambert Date: Friday, August 06, 2010 02:50 PM On 8/6/2010 3:54:39 AM, Pauli Lindgren wrote: >Some people may still use the CP/M >version of Vedit (which is freeware >now), and maybe Vedit still comes with >the (freeware) QNX 4.0 operating system. >But those are old version that use the >old macro language. > >But I hope the Linux version of Vedit >will be made some day. > Hi, Pauli, If you do a search on Google for: +Linux +Vedit There seems to be a Linux version of Vedit. Also the OS_type command in the v6.x PDF manual has a value for Linux as well as QNX. I am unsure which operating systems, Vedit is available for, other then Windows. I agree the DOS version seems to be history. Scott