You don't want to be using menus for xpl. Command-line is where the
power is in Xywrite, and if you record a program using the menus you'll
bypass that and get the kind of unpredictable results this program
yields. As Dick Giering points out, the manual will give you a good
introduction to xpl ("Xywrite Programming Language") and this, combined
with knowing just a few basics, will tide you through simple tasks like
these.
The program I've attached is as simple as they get:
ch /[cr]/[ep[cr]/
I left out the save -- you don't wanna to stick a save into an xpl
proggie.
Rafe T.
raphaelt@xxxxxxxx
http://www.ray-field.com
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:55:16 -0800, tgieske wrote:
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>Well, I tried to write a program file, which I have attached, but it didn't
>work. It replaced one carriage return and gave me a search program placard.
>I need to have a command that says replace all, and there has to be a place
>to put what it's to be replaced with. No help from help as to how that sub
>command within the control R command would be expressed or found.
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>At 10:25 AM 1/20/1999 -0600, you wrote:
>>Reply to msg from tgieske@xxxxxxxx
>> Macros are still possible - I use them all the
>>time. Your problem with carriage returns not
>>recording can be overcom by recording the
>>keystrokes into a program and then edititng it.
>>For the Carriage return, use, while in program
>>mode (the scroll lock on), ctrl return.
>>Look on the bottom of page 4-77 of the manual.
>>Dick Giering
>>
>>tgieske wrote:
>>>
>>> Gentlelisters:
>>>
>>> Back when I had Xywrite 3 and a 4086, I used to be able to make macros to
>>> do things to my copy, such as take all the carriage returns out and replace
>>> them with [ep carriage return, which teh host computer at my paper would
>>> recognize as a paragraph indent.
>>>
>>> You would outline the carriage return, hit the replace function gizmo, and
>>> the carriage return arrow would appear in the window signifying the thing
>>> to be replaced.
>>>
>>> You're told to record keystrokes. But certain keystrokes won't record,
>>> particularly the ones that you wish to replace. There's a bunch of things
>>> I'd like to use macros for, cleaning up HTML files for instance, but I
>>> can't make them work anymore.
>>>
>>> Can anyone help a newcomer to this most absorbing list?
>>>
>>> Tony Gieske
>>>
>>> Tony G.
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