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dxnotepad(1X) dxnotepad(1X) NAME dxnotepad - DECwindows text editor SYNOPSIS dxnotepad [options] [file] OPTIONS Specifies the color of the window's border (color displays only). This overrides the system default defined in the Session Manager's Customize Window dialog box. Specifies the color of the window's background (color displays only). This overrides the system default defined in the Session Manager's Customize Window dialog box. Specifies the display screen on which dxnotepad displays its window. If the display option is not specified, dxnotepad uses the display screen specified by your DIS- PLAY environment variable. The display option has the format host- name:number. Using two colons (::) instead of one (:) indicates that DECnet is to be used for transport. The default is :0. For more in- formation, see X(1X). Has the same function as the -d option. Speci- fies the color of the text in digital mode and the color of the tick marks in analog mode (color displays only). This overrides the system default defined in the Session Manager's Customize Window dialog box. Specifies the font used as the output font in digital mode. Any fixed- width font can be used. The default is 6x10. Specifies the width, length, and location of the dxnotepad window. If the geometry argument is not specified, dxnotepad uses default values. The geometry option has the format [widthxlength][{+-}x{+-}y]. For more information about the screen coordinate system, see X(1X). OPERANDS Specifies a file to open at startup. If you omit the file name, you can open or create a file from within dxnotepad. DESCRIPTION The dxnotepad command displays a window where you can edit a file or a text buffer that you can later save as a file. At startup, the dxnotepad window consists of the following three areas: Displays the name of the window, the name of the file currently being edited, and window manager buttons that move and resize the window and shrink the window to an icon. For more information, see mwm(1X). Lists the available dxnotepad menus. Displays the text that you are editing or creating. MENUS The dxnotepad window contains the following menus: File Edit Search Navigate Customize File Menu The File menu contains the following items: Creates a new dxnotepad window. Displays a dialog box that lets you specify the file to open. Opens the file whose name has been selected in any application window on the screen. Displays a dialog box that lets you specify a file to write into the current buffer. The included file appears at the cur- sor's current position. Saves the contents of the Edit window in a file. If the file is untitled when Save is selected, dxnotepad dis- plays a dialog box that prompts for the file name. Automatically dis- plays a dialog box that prompts for the file name under which to save the contents of the buffer. Cancels all edits made since the last time dxnotepad saved edits. Edits are saved when you choose the Save menu item from the File menu and when you exit from an editing session. Ends the current editing session without saving changes and closes the dxnotepad window. Ends the current editing session, saving the modi- fied text in the output file. Edit Menu The Edit menu contains the following items: Undoes the last edit. Each time you select this menu item, each previous edit is undone. Redoes the last edit. Each time you select this menu item, each edit that has been undone is redone. Displays the Undo dialog box that allows you to undo and redo sequences of edits. Removes text selected in the Edit window and moves it to the clipboard. This text can be retrieved with the Paste menu item. Copies text selected from the Edit window to the text buffer. You can retrieve this text with the Paste menu item. In- serts text previously cut or copied to the clipboard. Deletes selected text without copying it to the clipboard. Marks the entire buffer as the current selection, as if you had selected it with the mouse and pointer. Search Menu The Search menu contains the following items: Searches from the current insertion point to the end of the file for the next occurrence of a string selected from any window on the screen. Searches from the cur- rent insertion point to the beginning of the file for the next occur- rence of a string selected from any window on the screen. Displays a dialog box that prompts for a search string. The Next button finds the next occurrence of the string (moving forward); the Previous button finds the previous occurrence of the string (moving backward). The de- fault direction is forward. Displays a dialog box that prompts for a search string. The Next button finds the next occurrence of the string (moving forward); the Previous button finds the previous occurrence of the string (moving backward). The default direction is backward. Searches from the initial search position to the bottom of the buffer for a string of characters. You can change the search string during the operation; each time you add or delete a character, dxnotepad re- turns to the initial position and highlights the next occurrence of the pattern now specified. Searches from the initial search position to the top of the buffer for a string of characters. You can change the search string during the operation; each time you add or delete a char- acter, dxnotepad returns to the initial position and highlights the next occurrence of the pattern now specified. Displays a dialog box in which you enter an existing string and the string that you want to sub- stitute. Searching from the insertion point forward, dxnotepad finds the next occurrence of the existing string. Click on the Yes button to replace the string and move to the next occurrence; click on the No button to skip to the next occurrence without making the replacement. Displays a dialog box in which you enter an existing string and the string that you want to substitute. The operation replaces all occur- rences of the string within a selected block of text. Displays a dia- log box in which you enter an existing string and the string that you want to substitute. The operation replaces all occurrences of the string in the buffer. Navigate Menu The Navigate menu contains the following items: Moves the cursor to the top of the buffer. Moves the cursor to the bottom of the buffer. Moves the cursor to the line whose number has been selected somewhere on the screen. Displays dialog box that prompts for the line number. When the line number is specified, the cursor moves to the beginning of the line. Divides the current view of the file into two views of that file. The first time you use this option, it splits the window into two views. Each view has its own scroll bars, so that you can work with two sections of the file at once. Further splits affect the view in which the cursor is active. Removes the view in which the cursor is active. Customize Menu The Customize menu contains the following items: Specifies whether dxnotepad distinguishes between uppercase and lowercase occurrences of text characters when searching for a string. When the button is set to On, a search finds all occurrences of a character. When the button is set to Off, a search finds only occurrences whose case matches the case in which you enter the search string. Specifies whether dxnotepad au- tomatically starts a new line when you reach the right margin. When the button is set to On, word wrapping is automatic. When the button is set to Off, you must press the Return key at the end of each line. Note that dxnotepad does not insert carriage return characters as it wraps the line; with word wrapping on, you can create a line that looks like a paragraph in your dxnotepad edit window, but that a printer in- terprets as a single long line. Displays a dialog box in which you choose font attributes and see a sample of the resulting font; the Ap- ply button applies the font you select to your buffer. Saves the val- ues that you specified for options on the Customize menu. These values are stored in the file in your home directory; they will be used the next time you invoke dxnotepad. Restores the last saved values for op- tions on the Customize menu. Help Menu The Help Menu contains the following items: Provides overview informa- tion on using the application. Provides product information about the application. JOURNALS The dxnotepad editor records every keystroke in a journal file. When you save the file you are editing, the journal file is deleted. If an editing session terminates unexpectedly (due to a system crash, for ex- ample), the edits recorded in the journal file can be restored. When you attempt to edit a file whose journal file still exists, the Recover dialog box asks whether to apply the previous edits to the in- put file. Click on the OK button to restore the edits; click on the No button to forego applying the edits and delete the journal file. If an editing session is interrupted before you have saved the editing buffer as a file and assigned it a file name, dxnotepad assigns the journal file under the name of the file you were editing, with the suf- fix JNL (unless you have changed the default name, using a dxnotepad resource). To recover, first locate the journal file. You can recognize it in your directory because it has the form of AAAXXXXXXCCC, where AAA is your journalNamePrefix, XXXXXX the name of the file you were editing, and CCC is your journalNameSuffix. Invoke dxnotepad, specifying an input file whose name is the number portion of the default journal file name. A dialog box asks whether to recover the crashed session. To restore the edits, answer yes. For information about specifying the journalNamePrefix and the journal- NameSuffix, see the X DEFAULTS section. X DEFAULTS The dxnotepad application uses the values in the file when you logged in and uses the appropriate resource specification values to customize the appearance of the dxnotepad window. The format for a resource spec- ification in the file is: [name]*resource: value Specifies the application name or the name string that restricts the resource assignment to that application or to a component of an appli- cation. If this argument is not specified, the resource assignment is globally available to all X applications. Specifies the resource. Specifies the value that is to be assigned to the resource. Because each toolkit-based application can consist of a combination of widgets (for example, push buttons and a scroll bar), you can form the name string by adding widget class and name identifiers to the string. For further information about adding class and name identifiers, see X(1X). For dxnotepad, the available class identifiers are: XmLabel XmMainWin- dow XmPushButton XmRowColumn XmScrollbar XmText For dxnotepad, the available name identifiers are: The name of the ap- plication. View of the edit window. Each edit window can have one or more views into a text buffer or file. In addition to the general resources listed in X(1X), the resources available for dxnotepad are: Specifies that the original file is saved as the backup file. The name of the backup file is constructed by prepending the original file name with the string contained within the backupNamePrefix, and appended with the backupNameSuffix. The default is On. Specifies the prefix of the backup file name. Specifies the suffix of the backup file name. Specifies the geometry (window size and location) to be used as the default for the dxnotepad window. For more information about the geometry specification and screen coordinate system, see X(1X). If Geometry is not specified, a default built-in geometry is used. Specifies a text filter to add as an option to the Edit menu. The resource value has two parts, separated by one or more space or tab characters: the option name to add to the menu and the command to execute when that option is selected. Specifies the prefix of the journal file name. Specifies the suffix of the journal file name. Each specification included for the translations resource in the file modifies a key setting for the editor that dxnotepad uses. For more information about key and mouse specifications in the file, see X(1X). RESTRICTIONS Large numbers of certain edit functions tend to degrade performance over time. If there is a noticeable decrease in response time, save the file; saving a file resets dxnotepad's internal state. When dxnotepad is started with off-the-spot input style, the input area attached to the bottom of the application disappears during "split view" or "delete view." FILES SEE ALSO X(1X), mwm(1X) dxnotepad(1X)