QNote UDC for Occasional Memos
Some users would like to use Qedit’s full-screen editing to write an occasional memo, but feel intimidated by the range of features and options in Qedit. You can make Qedit more accessible by providing a special UDC and usefile. You can use our QNote UDC (from the file UDC.Catalog.Robelle).
:QNOTE [filename]
To invoke Qedit to create a new memo, use :QNOTE without any parameters. Qedit puts the user straight into Visual mode, with configuration options suitable for processing a memo. For example, the option Set Vis Update is ON, meaning that pressing any function key updates the screen. The user is not faced with an “Okay to clear?” message, because Qedit purges any existing Qeditscr file. When the user presses F8 to exit Visual, Qedit updates the screen, Keep the new document as the file Memo in the logon group, and ask the user to verify Exit. You should teach users the MPE :RENAME command so that they can rename the file Memo, if they want.
To invoke Qedit to modify an existing memo, use :QNOTE filename (where filename is a Keep file or Qedit file). When the user presses F8, Qedit asks permission to Keep the file back into filename. The users should answer Yes to save their work or No to discard it.