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The Edith menu

The Edith menu

The Edith menu contains help functions and access to external shell commands.

ENTRIES IN THE EDITH MENU

About Edith Pro...
Pops up a box with the address and version information for your current copy of Edith.

Help..., Alt H
Opens an info page with immediate help varying on the type of window you are working in.
Edith info index..., Ctrl I
Opens the on line index on this documentation, including references to (1) emacs info, (2) all system man pages listed in `whatis' files, (3) your WWW home page and (4) your `private home page'.
Private info index..., Ctrl Y
Open your private info index, where you can put links to whatever information you like to have quickly available, or want to edit regularly.

Execute command..., Alt Shift M
Execute an arbitrary command (such as make), whose output (if any) will be redirected to a browser window.
Filter..., Alt Shift F, Ctrl !
Pops up a panel in which you can enter a shell command line. The command will be executed with the selected text as its standard input; the standard output of the command will be substituted for the selection.

A running filter can be killed using the Escape key.

If the selection consists of multiple fragments, these will be glued together (as in Toggle single/column (Mark menu, Alt Y)).


Configure commands..., Shift Ctrl X
Opens the external commands panel, where you can specify external commands with an entry in the Edith menu.

The next two entries in the Edith menu contain a customizable list of external commands defined in external commands panel:
Default setup..., Shift Ctrl Y
Generic external commands available at all times.
User modes..., Shift Ctrl U
Mode-specific external commands; available only on text windows of a mode other than Default setup.

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