set-display-characters

Select new screen characters.

The set-display-characters command lets you alter the various characters that Epsilon uses to construct its display. The command displays a matrix of possible characters, and guides you through the selection process.

The first group specifies which graphic characters Epsilon should use to draw window borders. It defines all the line-drawing characters needed for drawing four different styles of borders, and all possible intersections of these.

The next group specifies which characters Epsilon uses to display various special characters like <Tab> or Control-E. For example, Epsilon usually displays a control character with the ^ symbol. Set the appropriate character in this group to make Epsilon use a different character. You can also make Epsilon display a special character at the end of each line, or change the continuation character.

The following group defines the characters Epsilon uses to display window scroll bars. Epsilon replaces the window's selected border characters with characters from this group.

Epsilon uses the last group for its graphical mouse cursor. When Epsilon for DOS uses a graphical mouse cursor, it must redefine the appearance of nine characters. By default, Epsilon uses nine non-ASCII graphic characters, including some math symbols and some block graphic characters. Set the characters in this group to alter the reserved characters Epsilon uses. As you move the mouse around, the appearance of these characters will change. If you edit a binary file with these characters in single-character graphic mode (where Epsilon displays the IBM graphic characters for control and meta characters), you may wish to use a block mouse cursor by setting mouse-graphic-cursor to 0, or starting with the -kc1 flag.

More info:

DOS-specific and OS/2-specific Flags (Getting Started)
Customizing the Screen
Character Display (Primitives)

Previous Up Next
set-dialog-font Command Reference set-display-look