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I use PalEdit by Andreas Garzotto and I also use a Japanese macro program called EXkey by Yoshihiro Hanaoka (Maruha). First of all I would like to mention that these two programs are really great and I can't live without any of them! If you have runned these programs at the same time (EXkey as TSR), you have probably realized that you can't highlight text in PalEdit in order to Copy or Cut. It seams that EXkey dissable the PalEdit's key functions for highlighting text ({Shift + Arrow key}). But don't worry, there is a way around this!
Instead of using {Shift + Arrow Key}, you have to first press {Shift + Home} (Home is {Fn+Left Arrow key}), and then the highlight function is activated. Now you can continue as usual with the Arrow keys in order to highlight the text you want to Copy or Cut. If you play around with different key strokes, you will realize that there is several other key strokes that don't work- for example {Ctrl+End} (go to the end of the page), {Ctrl+Right Arrow Key) (jump from word to word) etc.
You can fix all these problems if you make some EXkey macros. If you add following lines in your EXKEY.INI file the problems should be solved:
[PE]
{Shift+Right}={Shift+Home}{Shift+End}
{Shift+Left}={Shift+Home}
{Shift+Down}={Shift+Home}{Shift+End}{Down}
{Shift+Up}={Shift+Home}{Shift+End}{Up}
{Ctr+Right}={Ctr+Shift+Right}
{Ctr+Left}={Ctr+Shift+Left}
{Ctr+End}={Ctr+Shift+End}
This will result in a little bit different behavior since the highlight function must be activated with {Shift+Home}, but it works!
NOTE: This will only work if you start PalEdit from the Application Manager . This since EXkey must know that you are running [PE]. If you for example start PalEdit from Filer or let PNS200 open up a document, EXkey will not know that PalEdit is running and then the EXkey macro for [PE] will not work.
However, this problem can also be solved! To solve this problem, you have to create a batch file called PE.BAT which is located in the same directory as PE.EXE.
PE.BAT should have following lines:
@ECHO OFF
A:\PE\PE.EXE %1
If your PE directory is A:\PE. If not, change the above line to the directory you use for PalEdit.
Then you have to edit PNS200.INI under the label [Action], where PNS200 runs your copy of PalEdit. Change the line to (your choice of key (I use "e") and your directory for PalEdit (I use "a:\pe")):
[Action]
e=d:\dos\command.com /c a:\pe\pe.bat %s
You can now run PalEdit from PNS200 or start it in Filer (run PE.BAT NOT PE.EXE) and your EXkey macros will work as they should do.