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At 12:29 AM 12/15/96 -0500, you wrote:
>This question applies to XEDIT and KEDIT. I use both. So it may require
>two different replies.
>
>I want to do a change in which I replace a string with a line break
>followed by the same string. For example:

(snip)

>Simple, huh? But can it be done. I'm sick of using the split command over
>and over.

For XEDIT, the bad news is that you have to use the SPLIT command, but the
good news is that you can use one command to do it.  In XEDIT, there's not
a character that implies a line break like there is in DOS.  The LOCATE
command can be used to execute a command whenever a given string is found.
For instance, assuming that we are looking for your <P> marker, and want to
do a SPLIT afterwards.  We could execute:

  LOCATE /<P>/ SPLIT AFTER /<P> /

You could just keep reexecuting this command until you reach the end of the
file (assuming that WRAP is OFF).

If there is routinely more than one paragraph marker in a line, or the
paragraph marker doesn't start in column 1, you may want to write an XEDIT
macro using the SPLIT command to do what you want.

As for KEDIT, I'm not sure if thier LOCATE command has the command option.
And, you may be able to insert a linefeed character like you want.  Since I
don't have a copy of KEDIT anymore, I can't say.

Good luck,
  -Paul


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