Package the-3.1-1016

This package makes Mark Hessling's THE, a unix implementation of IBM's VM/CMS Xedit and Kedit for the DOS platform, available to the Mac OS X platform. The includes powerful folding and scripting features, allowing users to do a search and replace, for example, only on lines previously selected by other criteria. (Try for example the 'all /criteria/' command followed by 'c /target/replace/ *') Also try using the shadow selection prefix and line commands. All of this is fully scriptable using the Rexx macro language, a powerful tcl-like programming language (Rexx is made available via fink as the regina package.) The fink package of 'the' installs two binary executables, one built to run in X11 ('the-xcurses') and one built to run in any terminal window, most notably Apple's ('the-ncurses'). Invoking 'the' from the command line will invoke whichever of these two versions that seems most appropriate to the terminal type. The fink package also installs a default user profile in ~/.therc and sets up a macro directory in /sw/share/THE, provided the profile file does not already exist. Full documentation of the editor and its many commands is available at http://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html. Some online help is available within the by issuing the 'help' command from the command/home line, or by typing shift-F4 under the default profile. Many thanks for this package are due to Mathias Meyer, who made it possible.