RE: text to cmd line

[Brian.Henderson@xxxxxxxx]

Title: RE: text to cmd line





It's kind of funny about the differences between the CI, CV, and CH commands. I used to use CI whenever I didn't need to choose yes or no...if I was sure of the replace, I just wanted it done. But sometimes in very large documents only the first two-thirds of the changes got made. It seemed like CI would after a certain distance. So I switched to using CH, which does the changes automatically but shows you as it goes along (people who don't know Xywrite are fascinated by this when they happen by...the screen is just a blur of activity). Judging by the fact that I never have the problem when I use CH, I'm guessing that CI can actually loose its place in a long operation (maybe modern machinces are too fast for it)...but because CH has to actually "go to each instance" (so to speak), it doesn't. I think. Whatever the reason, it works.

Brian Henderson

Print Composition Dept.

Mitchell1

San Diego, CA


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From: Young For Life Products, Ltd [mailto:contact@xxxxxxxx]

Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 10:20 AM

To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx

Subject: Re: text to cmd line




"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