Supporting stuff for The Hessling Editor
Supporting stuff for The Hessling Editor
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You will find here useful stuff when using
The Hessling Editor
(THE) by
Mark Hessling. This editor is a freeware OS-independent
text mode editor basing on the concept of the IBM-mainframe editor
XEDIT or its PC-world clone
KEDIT. The editor uses
REXX as
its easy to learn scripting language. Thus,
THE enables you to either work on files in an automated way by
extending REXX with the editing functions or to
extend the editor by using REXX
macros. That way, you
can change the behaviour of THE totally to let it fit to
your needs and habits. So THE may be a versatile tool for
manipulating text files either interactively or by batch.
At this site I will not replicate the executables/sources of THE and the necessary software, which can be found elsewhere. Instead this site is dedicated to user contributions in form of macros or additional documentation, collects these all together and shows also the main links to get THE onto your system.
macro contributions andguiding texts when writing or porting
THE macros.home of THE at SourceForge (recommended)project overview at SourceForge,download area at SourceForge,THE's online manual (in current
3.2-version, for document for 3.3-beta-version look at sourceforge) at
Mark's SourceForge site, as it
can be built from the source distribution or
zipped classic manual
(350 kB, for version 3.1),rearranged manual
online (for version 3.0),zipped rearranged manual
(135kB, for version 3.0),files to build the rearranged manual (22kB, for version 3.0). It possibly
requires adaption at current version. You will need some standard unix tools
like 
echo, ln, rm, sed,
grep, cat, head, make and
at last REXX and THE (executable and source).Just note, that the formerly used contrib directories at the ftp-sites currently are not up to date.
So, try out some of the documents or contributions or return to home.
