Dear All, Since geocities was closed all the Ergon stuff is now held on www.sinclairql.it
Specifically the utility web page containing Masterbasic is: http://www.sinclairql.it/qlutilities.htm I have to admit that even if I use Superbasic rarely I found Masterbasic still very useful Best regards Davide -----Messaggio originale----- Da: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Per conto di Lee Privett Inviato: sabato 18 dicembre 2010 0.19 A: [email protected] Oggetto: Re: [Ql-Users] Question from a re-newbie A bit of searching and viola! http://www.oocities.com/dsantachiara/qlutilities.htm from Ergon's QL support WEB page Lee ----------------------------------------------------------------- Sent from my Medion Laptop running XP and emulating the Sinclair QL ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Malcolm Cadman" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2010 9:31 PM Subject: Re: [Ql-Users] Question from a re-newbie In message <[email protected]>, Rich Mellor <[email protected]> writes >On 09/12/2010 15:31, Tobias Fröschle wrote: >> Am 09.12.2010 15:50, schrieb Rich Mellor: >>> On 09/12/2010 14:44, Lee Privett wrote: >>>> Ed (Toolkit II) is a great editor but in coming back to the QL I would >>>> have thought someone would have come up with a couple of useful tweaks >>>> by now. >>>> >>>> Such as the ability to copy and paste within the editing window and >>>> using the mouse to put the cursor just where I want it, instead of >>>> several arrow direction taps to get there. >>>> >>>> Any ideas? >>>> >>>> >>>> Lee Privett >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> QL-Users Mailing List >>>> http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm >>>> >>>> >>> I guess no one enhanced Ed any further, as people moved onto using tools >>> such as Digital Precision's The Editor, or the even better QD editor >>> from Jochen Merz if they wanted to be able to do this sort of thing. >>> >> Yep, that's just about right. I find myself rarely using ed nowadays, >> even for plain SBASIC programming. QD2 with its feature to remove and add >> line numbers on the fly makes editing (and properly formatting) programs >> much easier. >> I use ED only for small corrections/amendments when actually compiling. >> >> Tobias >> _______________________________________________ >> QL-Users Mailing List >> http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm >> >> > >I suppose the other thing to mention are the tools which were developed to >make writing SuperBASIC much easier even with just the basic ED command: > >- QREF by Liberation Software which allows you to find all references to a >given command / string / function / procedure >- MasterBASIC by Ergon Development which analysed the program much more >than QREF - you could even search for tokens! and much more Hi Rich, MasterBASIC is good, which I re-discover when I remember to use it. It would be nice to have an updated version of this at some time, too. -- Malcolm Cadman _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
