Re: search

[Richard Giering dick.giering@xxxxxxxx]

Carl:
 What is the "new CSE"???
Dick

cld@xxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> -> I tried this in XyWin and found that to repeat a
> -> previous search required a few more keystrokes
> -> than Harry said. When I keyed {F5}se /word/{F9}
> -> the cursor went to the next occurrence of "word".
> -> But then when I keyed {F5}se //{F9} and marveled
> -> to see the command line magically change to read
> -> {F5}se /word/{F9} the search didn't execute.
> -> Instead, I got the error message
> -> Separator is missing
> -Eric Van Tassel
> You're trying too hard! All you need is a bare SE (no
> separators). Try it.
>
> A quirk of this feature -- I tested in Xy4 -- is that it
> works only if you use certain characters as the search
> separator. Slashes (//) work, as do vertical bars (||),
> but double quotes ("") and single quotes ('') don't. Nor
> do alphanumeric characters, or high- or low-order Ascii
> characters, even though they're all "legal" search
> separators. This is a debilitating restriction if your
> last search was executed via an XPL routine, such as SEBF
> (my standard search tool for intra-file searches) or the
> new CSE, which purposely uses an obscure separator to
> avoid clashes with the search string. (As you know, any
> character -- including a blank space or even a 3-byte
> Speedo character -- can be used as the separator, as long
> as it doesn't appear in the search string itself.)
>
> There are other reasons why this trick leaves me cold.
> While it's useful to be able to repeat a search, I search
> so often -- I just peeked and there are currently over 60
> different search statements in my command history, not
> counting the ones I used to do these tests -- that I'm
> hard pressed to remember which was the last one I used.
> I may want to search again for "blip", but it's unlikely
> I'll remember whether my last search was for "blip",
> "blap" or "bloop". Much easier to put a STACK.PM hint on
> the CMline and pop the desired command out of the command
> history. Or, using STACKBOX, to list all of my search
> commands in a dialog box and cursor down to the one I
> want. On the other hand, if I did the search very
> recently, chances are it's still up on the CMline, or
> near the top of the STACK. Either way, I'm covered.
>
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> Carl Distefano
> cld@xxxxxxxx
> http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/