Adapting MIDAS to your personal needs

There are commands in MIDAS which help you in tailoring MIDAS to your personal taste and needs.
Maybe the most important one is CREATE/COMMAND with which you can add abbreviated and alias command names. As a next step, try out CREATE/DEFAULTS in order to set up your own defaults for frequently used commands, e.g. size and location of display and graphics windows in an X11-environment. The command SET/MIDAS_SYSTEM has an extended set of options to let you change internal MIDAS features, ranging from selecting your preferred text editor (to be used e.g. in REPORT/PROBLEM) to choosing your own MIDAS prompt. With the command SET/BUFFER you modify the size of the internal command buffer.
If you have a MIDAS command procedure named ` login.prg' in the directory specified by MID_WORK, this procedure will be automatically executed whenever you get into the MIDAS environment, i.e. when you type INMIDAS ( inmidas) or GOMIDAS ( gomidas).  Therefore, the procedure login.prg  is the place where you should put all the commands needed to adapt MIDAS.

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! MIDAS procedure login.prg
! personal set up file for A. S. Tronomer 940815
!+
CREATE/COMMAND RK READ/KEYWORD !define abbreviations
CREATE/COMMAND WK WRITE/KEYWORD
CREATE/COMMAND RD READ/DESCR
CREATE/COMMAND WD WRITE/DESCR
CREATE/COMMAND XH CREATE/GUI HELP
CREATE/COMMAND SMOOTH/SPECIAL @@ mysmooth !define a new command
!
CREATE/DEFAULT CREATE/GRAPH ? 400,800 !size for graphic window
CREATE/DEFAULT CREATE/DISP ? 600,600,400,400 !size+loc for display window
!
SET/MIDAS_SYS edit=vi user=user
SET/MIDAS_SYS prompt=Midmid$sess(11:12)

Assuming you are working with MIDAS unit 22, this procedure will change the MIDAS prompt to Mid22, use ` vi' as editor when you run the REPORT/PROBLEM command, define the commands RK, WK, RD, WD, XH, SMOOTH/SPECIAL, and override the preset defaults for CREATE/GRAPHICS, CREATE/DISPLAY. Also, the user level is set to USER; cf. the following section.