I have a standard setting in Qedit for handling escape
sequences:

SET VI ESC "\"

In VIsual mode any escape sequences will appear in
full with *\* where the escape character appears.

To see the finished result: in Line-mode *List* the
appropriate lines.

Martin Mason

-----Original Message-----
From: Donna Garverick [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 11 July 2001 18:53
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Highliting in an editor

Forrest Smith wrote:

> I am trying to edit a command file that has some
highliting in it.  How is the highliting created in a
command file etc.?

it can be done crudely or elegantly....and it sounds
like you hit a crude implementation.  for example to
turn on
'halfbright', the escape sequence is 'esc&dH' (no
quotes, case is important).  escape is a character
just like (say) 'a' --
you just can't see it...and it causes all manner of
hair-pulling :-)

since you're an ecometry site, i believe you have
access to qedit.  in that case, once inside qedit,
type "set decimal on"
and "c '27 to ~" (tilde can be most any character --
but one that you're confident isn't already in the
file).  that should
make the command file more easily editted.

*however* to avoid this pain and agony, try defining a
ci variable to hold the value of escape (that is --
setvar my_esc
char(27)).  then with simple variable manipulation you
can create all the highlight variable string you
need/want *and* the
file can still be easily editted.        - d

--
Donna Garverick     Sr. System Programmer
925-210-6631        [log in to unmask]

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