06-21-2006
vi is massively powerful with very little footprint. once you learn vi you can edit a file faster in it than just about any other text editor.
if you are a UNIX admin, you NEED to learn vi. I have NEVER run across a *NIX system (or BSD) that did not have a version of vi. one time i typed #vi somefile on a system and it said "vi not recognized as an internal or external command" and I almost fainted. I had already begun editing the file, and had a bunch of garbage on the screen.
luckily, i typed it in again and it worked.
the more tricks you learn in vi, the better it will feel. a master of vi can open edit and save a file in vi before an opponent has even opened the file in notepad.
I am not a master of vi yet, but i hope to acheive that enlightened state of mind at some point in my existence.
I hope by constant vigilence to achieve moksha, or liberation from the wheel of life and existence to a higher plane in which the perfect use of vi is finally realized.
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dwtstextgeteditable
DwtSTextGetEditable(3Dwt) DwtSTextGetEditable(3Dwt)
Name
DwtSTextGetEditable - Obtains the current edit permission state indicating whether the user can edit the text in the simple text widget.
Syntax
Boolean DwtSTextGetEditable(widget)
Widget widget;
Arguments
widget Specifies the ID of the simple text widget whose edit permission state you want to obtain.
Description
The DwtSTextGetEditable function returns the current edit-permission-state, which indicates whether the user can edit the text in the sim-
ple text widget. If the function returns True, the user can edit the string text in the simple text widget. If it returns False, the user
cannot edit the text.
Return Values
This function returns the current permission state concerning the editing of the text field in the widget.
See Also
DwtSText(3Dwt), DwtSTextGetString(3Dwt), DwtSTextSetEditable(3Dwt), DwtSTextGetMaxLength(3Dwt), DwtSTextSetMaxLength(3Dwt), DwtS-
TextSetSelection(3Dwt), DwtSTextClearSelection(3Dwt), DwtSTextGetSelection(3Dwt)
Guide to the XUI Toolkit: C Language Binding
Guide to the XUI Toolkit Intrinsics: C Language Binding
DwtSTextGetEditable(3Dwt)