Using the Poplog/Pop11 editor Ved with minimal keyboard keys (vedkeys)
Channel: aaronsloman
Date: 16/12/2011

The previous tutorial (http://youtu.be/Athf7cFbk3E)  rapidly ran through some of the things that can be done with the Poplog editor XVed, using its 2-D graphical capabilities. including use of multiple windows and mouse drive menu panels. This tutorial goes to the opposite extreme to show how Ved can be used not only without 2-D graphics, but also without any function keys, so that it has to be driven only by normal alphanumeric keyboard keys, along with CTRL, ESC, RETURN, and Backspace.

This situation can arise when either there is something wrong with a keyboard, or the keyboard is small and lacks function keys (e.g. on a laptop), or the use of the function keys is not avilable to Ved because they are 'grabbed' by the operating system or graphical desktop interface.

In such a situation it is possible to drive Ved and do normal programming, development, testing, and reading of documentation, using only a minimal set of keyboard keys, namely all the alphanumeric keys plus the CTRL and ESC keys.

This tutorial explains how to move the Ved cursor around, how to delete text, how to mark portions of a file, how to mark and compile portions of a file, and how to switch between different files, while using nothing but the minimal set of keyboard keys. There are other help files that explain additional actions that can be performed using the keyboard, and without a mouse or 2-D graphical facilities.

For additional tutorials see http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/poplog/cas-ai/video-tutorials.html

Uploaded: 16 Dec 2011