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The Last Word 3.0 Reference Manual
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8.2 .CFG CONFIGURATION FILES
CFG files contain user preferences such a screen colours, screen width and
resolution, default drive number, filespecs, etc. Many of these command can be
changed via commands in the editor, and the current configuration can be saved as a
CFG file at any time with the <SHIFT+CTRL+Q> command.
If a file called “LW.CFG” resides on the default drive when the program is loaded, this
configuration file is always used at startup. This way, you can keep all your most
commonly used settings in LW.CFG, and load different configurations during an editing
session with <CTRL+Q>.
CFG files are plain text files consisting of lines ending in <Return>. Each line takes the
form of a keyword, followed by a space, and then one or more numeric or textual
arguments separated by commas or spaces.
The full list of CFG file keywords is shown below:
Numeric Settings Argument Comments Default
TMARGIN 0-255 Set default top printed
margin 5
BMARGIN 0-255 Default bottom margin 61
LMARGIN 0-255 Set left margin 10
RMARGIN 0-255 Set right margin 70
PAGELEN 0-255 Set page length 66
HFLEFTMARG 0-255 Set left header/footer
margin 10
HFRIGHTMARG 0-255 Set right header/footer
margin 70
SPACING 0-255 Set line spacing 1
HEADOFF 0-255 Set header offset 2
FOOTOFF 0-255 Set footer offset 2
EOLCHAR 0 or 219 Set end-of-line character
(internal code) 219
PADCHAR 0 or 125 Set false space character
(internal code) 0
TEXTCOL 0-255 Set text luminance 10
SCREENCOL 0-255 Set editor screen colour 148
PROMPTCOL 0-255 Set message line text
luminance 10
BORDERCOL 0-255 Set border colour 0
KEYDELAY 0-255 Set initial key delay 30
KEYREPEAT 0-255 Set key repeat rate 3
TABWIDTH 0-255 Set default tab width 5
FILESORT 0-4 Set file sort type:
0 = no sort
1 = sort by name
2 = sort by extender
3 = sort by date/time
4 = sort by size 0
PAGEWIDTH 5-240 Set editor column width