*** Welcome to qXed ***

qXed is a hackable text environment written in QB64.

Standard text editor elements include open, edit, & save, accompanied by common keyboard inputs for copy, paste, etc. Text wrapping, undo/redo history, and multiple tabs are core feaures.

Custom prompts invoke the Eliza AI Therapist (Weizenbaum, 1966), the Sxript programming language (WFB 2014), or the Pipecom shell utility (Spriggs 2020).

Commands for appearance and behavior allow qXed to take a variety of themes, ranging from a flashy text editor with 32-bit graphics, to something flat and Notepad-like, to a graphics-free mode controlled with a custom Screen 0 terminal application.

qXed can be used as a TCP/IP host or client or both simultaneously.

Real-time spell check is made possible via The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.

* Build:
    Requires QB64 compiler, qXed.BAS and all bi/bm dependencies.
    The qXed executable should occur in the /bin/ directory.

* Start:
    Open file on start:
    qXed\bin> qXed.exe ../README.txt (Windows)
    qXed/bin$ ./qXed ../README.txt (Linux)
    
    - Drag + Drop to open: Enabled on windows.
    - All instances of line feed (LF) change to carriage return (CR).
    - All tab characters change to four (4) spaces.

* Runtime:
    F1 .................... Open this file
    Ctrl+N ................ Open blank qXed instance

* Save:
    Ctrl+S or F6 .......... Save text to /bin/ directory.
                            Does not overwrite existing file.

Also see:
../doc/KEYSTROKES.txt (below)
../doc/ASCII.txt (below)
../doc/PROMPTS.txt (Alt+8)
../doc/COMMANDS.txt (Alt+8)
../doc/HYBRID.txt (Alt+8)
../doc/BATCH.txt (Alt+8)
../doc/TCPIP.txt (Alt+7)