Re: Looking for XyWrite

[Robert Holmgren holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to note from xywrite@xxxxxxxx Wed, 25 Nov 1998 21:16:20 -0500 (EST)

> CI /old_text/new_text/

> Can anyone tell me if there are "switches" for this command? The default seems to be to
> replace every occurence of the found text.

You can limit the number of times the Change_Invisible command is executed with a number, e.g.
CI/1 will execute the command once, and then stop.

The real switches, apart from A (for Absolute case), are /w and /t. /w means change Whole words
only -- no instrings, e.g. "CI/W |source$|target$|". /t means start the change operation
from
TOF. There might be another one, but I'm away from home -- and my manual. The flexibility of
the CI command is enlarged greatly with wildcards, of which there are many (they must be
*balanced* on each side, source/target, of the spec) -- 20 or 30, some with wide meaning (wild X
means replace any single character), some narrow (just a carriage return), some fuzzy (any
$tring up to 80 chars in length), one meaning NOT a specified character. Why not buy a manual
from TTG? Get both the Command Reference Guide and the Customization Guide. Sounds like you'll
need them. Welcome to high-power word processing!




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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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