Re: Selecting text

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In a message dated 96-09-05 19:37:26 EDT, scott larson wrote:

≪ Does anyone know how to select text while running a "find" operation,
 preferably within a macro???
 ≫

Dunno if this is what you have in mind, but:

XD BX se[a]/optional_switches |search string|Q2 
DF BX seb[a]/optional_switches |search string|Q2 DF DE

The DE at the end is optional; it places the cursor at the end of the
highlight. Note that you don't want to start with, for instance, se/f and
then se again -- That will fail to catch a search string at the very
beginning of a file. The bar character | is the separator, and the
optional_switches can be anything but /f (and /t makes no sense for the
second search!). XD, BX, Q2, DF, DE are function calls that you can put in
your program file from the command line using this command:
pfun XX
where XX is the function.

The command pfunc works too, and it's the "official" one; but pfun is fine
and has one less character!

Tim Baehr
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