Purpose

Emulate Brief End and Home Commands.

These functions provides a true emulation of the Brief editor End key.

Operation

With the tlaBriefEnd( ) assigned to the End key ...

• End of Line - hit End key one time,

  • Hit the End key one time and the cursor will move after the last character on the current line.

• End of Screen - hit End key two times.

  • Hit the End key two times and the cursor will move after the last character on the last line in the screen.
  • If the cursor started at the end of a line only one hit of the End key is needed.

• End of Buffer - hit End key three times.

  • Hit the End key three times and the cursor will move after the last character of the last line in the buffer.
  • If the cursor started at the end of the screen only one hit of the End key is needed.
  • If the cursor started at the end of a line only two hits of the End key is needed.

With tlaBriefHome( ) assigned to the Home key ...

• Start of Line - hit Home key one time,

  • Hit the Home key one time and the cursor will move to the first character of the current line.

• Start of Screen - hit Home key two times.

  • Hit the Home key two times and the cursor will move to the first character of the screen.
  • If the cursor started at the first character of a line only one hit of the Home key is needed.

• Start of Buffer - hit Home key three times.

  • Hit the Home key three times and the cursor will move to the first character of the buffer.
  • If the cursor started at the first character of the screen only one hit of the Home key is needed.
  • If the cursor started at the first character of a line only two hit of the Home key are needed.

Example

tlaBriefEnd( );
tlaBriefHome( );

Input Parameters

None.

Return Codes

None.

Reference

These functions call tlaBeginLine, tlaBottomBuffer, tlaBottomWindow, tlaEndLine, tlaTopBuffer, and tlaTopWindow.

Reference

None.

Compatibility

Current version verified under:

• Visual SlickEdit 8.0

Installation

Perform the following steps:

• Select the Code button on this page.
• When the second window opens, select all the text in the text box.
• Issue Ctl-C (copy).
• Create a file in Visual SlickEdit with type Slick-C and extension ".e".
• Issue Ctl-V (paste).
• Issue Ctl-S (save).
• Select PFK-12 to compile the macros.

Purchase

tlaSlick is a Visual Slick-C module that contains all of the Slick-C macros on this website in a single easy to install package. The tlaSlick module can be purchased by selecting the Buy button on this page.

tlaBrief is included as a function in tlaSlick.