Re: text to cmd line

[Jay McNally jmcnally@xxxxxxxx]

Here is how to ABort a file w/o getting a prompt (I was really tickled when
I discovered this one, too!)
I added this to my .kbd file, Ctrl+A. this is a huge problem because
sometime I kill off a file when I mistakenly push Alt+A instead of
Caps+A. But since I have my BC, sa, XC command on F11 and push that at
just about every sentence, it's never much of a problem.

BC AB/nvXC
The /nv is the "no verify" switch that Carl discussed so eloquently a few
days ago.

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Now, regarding the CH vs CV and CI commands. Today, I think CH and CI are
nearly the same thing, because the computer goes so fast. In the olden
days, you could actually watch Xy go through a file and make the changes.
Now it's over and done with within milliseconds.
I put the prompt for CV for CH, or CI in my program because there are very
infrequent occasions when I don't want to change every occurrence of a
string. One example might be in editing wire copy with the word
"September" in it. AP style dictates that if it refers to a specific date,
it should be Sept. 12, but if it refers to one of the months of the year,
it should be spelled out. In editing a long file with multiple occurrences
of "September" in this situation, the CV command would be very helpful.



At 01:20 PM 11/6/01 -0500, you wrote:
> "Which gets me to a very wonderful program I wrote at that time, which allow
> one to take the defined text and incorporate it into a search and replace
> routine. This program prompts you to choose whether the command should be
> CH (change), CV (change verify), or CI (change invisible). I think CI is
> nearly useless today with the high speed computers, but back then, when
> everyone was working on the old 088s then the ultra-superspeed ATs (288, I
> think) it was fun to watch the computer go through the changes in a long
> file. In those days we couldn't even comprehend how fast the 386s would be."
>
> I'd like to add my two-bits to this: when you say that CI is now obsolete, I
> must disagree, but not for the same reason you gave. I hate being prompted.
> I also don't enjoy watching the screen flicker as a routine churns. My
> attitude, when I put a command on the command line in Xywrite - and one of
> the reasons I love Xywrite, especially previous to XY4 - is "JUST DO IT - I
> WOULDN'T HAVE SAID IT IF I DIDN'T MEAN IT!!" The nice thing about CI vs. CV
> is it just does it, without second guessing me. If I really need CV, I'll
> specifically use it. I don't remember whether CH prompts or not, I don't
> think I've ever used it.
>
> Now I have to figure out how to change the defaults in my new XY4 so it
> stops the damned prompting it keeps doing when I tell it to AB.
>
> Charles