#: 17393 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    17-Jan-93  13:57:05
Sb: #17371-Ved/68K upgrade
Fm: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203
To: Ken Gideon 72270,664 (X)

Ken, thanks for the interest in Ved and suggestions...

1. Upgrade policy: Normally we charge a nominal 5 to 10 dollars for an upgrade.
Really just to cover the cost of media, etc. However, with a major change like
from Ved 1.x to 2.0 we do have to charge a bit more. Full details are in the
upgrade announcment in the mail to you.

2. Making tab==tab: Do remember that ALL the keybindings in Ved are user
defineable. This is made much easier with 2.0 since we now include MVEF in the
package. MVEF makes it easy to create a customized environment file with the
key laid out the way you think the should be.

3. Menus: Ved is _not_ a mm/1 editor. It is designed to work on any OSK
platform, and as such does have to assume a somewhat limited environment. The
only thing Ved _really_ needs is cursor positioning. Adding color and stuff is
really quite easy if you want to fool around with the termcap file..nothing
from stopping you from defining 'so' (standout) as red letters on yellow....

4. MM/1: We have included some support for Kwindows. Ved will read a mouse to
get cursor positioning, etc. and does a few things with the Kwindows screen
drivers.

5. A future version of Ved _may_ incorporate a front-end option. As envisioned
a front-end would be a user (or 3rd party) written program which would filter
commands (keys) before they get to Ved. This program could then do it's own
menus, etc. Or it could be a executive in an interactive c-programming
environment. The exec. could transfer control between programs, and even pass
error line numbers to Ved so that the correct line pops up after a unsuccessful
compile. This is still in the planning stage...