Labels in Line Mode

Qedit 5.7 for HP-UX

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Labels in Line Mode

This is not a Set command, but an environment variable value.

Normally, Qedit always displays the modes keys except within Visual mode. You have the option of displaying the User Keys instead, or removing the labels from the screen. This is done by setting a shell variable before running Qedit:

$RLABELDEFAULT=2; export RLABELDEFAULT
%setenv RLABELDEFAULT 2                {C shell}

Valid values for this variable are as follows:

0 don't care, Qedit displays modes

1 terminal has NO labels (2645)

2 display user keys

3 display modes keys

4 remove labels from screen

5 display default F1-F8 key labels

6 display the Qedit labels

These values define which key labels will be displayed when you are in Line mode rather than Screen mode.

Technical Notes

Qedit turns echo off (echo is reset to its previous state on exit), disables the Break key, and disables messages from other users (:Setmsg OFF on MPE and mesg n on HP-UX). Visual disables your Type Ahead Engine (if you have one and have not done Set Vis TAE Off), and puts your HP terminal into block-mode, page-mode, but with Format off. Qedit loads the function keys with their default values, and writes descriptive labels for them.


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