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Chapter 8
Configuration
Basic Configuration
Most configuration changes are made by selecting items in the {CONFIG}
menu. To save the changes, you must also select {CONFIG, Save config} and
choose the default filename of “vedit.cfg” in the User Config Directory,
typically c:\vedit\save\vedit.cfg.
Alternatively, if {CONFIG, Auto-save config} is enabled, VEDIT automatically saves configuration changes as you make them. VEDIT is supplied with
“Auto-save config” enabled, but after you are familiar with VEDIT, you may
decide that you don’t want to automatically save every configuration change.
Similarly, the keyboard layout can be changed and new keystroke macros
added with the {CONFIG, Keyboard layout} sub-menu. To save the changes,
you must also select {CONFIG, Keyboard layout, Save layout} and choose
the default filename, typically c:\vedit\save\vedit.key.
NOTES: VEDIT does not automatically save changes to the keyboard
layout. You must select {CONFIG, Keyboard layout, Save layout}.
DOS Version: The basic configuration described in the manual and
on-line help assume that {CONFIG, Misc, Auto-load config} is set
to “3”.
How VEDIT Configures Itself
To fully understand (and possibly troubleshoot) VEDIT’s configuration, you
need to know exactly how VEDIT configures itself at startup.
Note: The DOS and QNX version configuration is somewhat different. Refer
to the on-line help topic “CFG” for details.
1.
The executable VEDIT file (e.g. vpw.exe) contains the complete “default” configuration and the “normal” keyboard layout.
DOS version: You can change this built-in configuration by selecting
{CONFIG, Misc, Save into VEDIT.EXE}.
If no other configuration files are found, or the “-ixxx -g ” invocation
options are specified, this determines the startup configuration.
2.
VEDIT opens the vedit.ini file which it expects to find in the same
directory as the executable vpw.exe file. This is usually the directory
into which you installed VEDIT.
The entries “HomeDir” and “UserCfgDir” determine the VEDIT Home
Directory and User Config Directory which are used to locate other files.
For most installations, the location of the vpw.exe and vedit.ini
files, the VEDIT Home Directory and the User Config Directory will all
be the same, e.g. c:\vedit. However, for shared network installations,
they might be different. (See the Chapter 2 or the on-line help topic
“Network Installation” for details.)