Re: Another New Feature Proposal

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From: Richard A. Schafer
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1991 19:22

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On Thu, 21 Nov 1991 11:21:18 EST Arthur L Anger said:
>A shorter circumvention is to combine posititioning with the command.  MAIL
>passes it on to XEdit whenever there is a leading number.  Thus,
>  1 DEL 5
>will delete 5 lines from the one following the current (highlighted) line.
>If the current line is hard to spot, search for a word (but unambiguously!):
>  /SMTP/ DEL /Date:/
>When you're already on the line to delete, use 0 DEL.
>(When you regret the deletion, use RECOVER.)

Good point Art.  For those of you who've ever wanted to get around some
of the limitations HELP puts on XEDIT commands, this will work for
HELP as well.  E.g., if you want to change to CASE M R in help, just
do a
     0 SET CASE M R
and HELP will let you get away with it.

Richard

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Subject: Re: Another New Feature Proposal
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