Re: newcomer, questions

[Norman Bauman nbauman@xxxxxxxx]

Tom,

In the category of really simple, useful things that I went for years
without knowing, in Xy 3.55 there is the Global Search across multiple
files. You have to use the entire path, but you can use wildcards.

For example, if I wanted to search every file in the directory C:\2001 for
the word "ribbit", I would use

C:SE C:\2001\*.*/ribbit/

As I recall, you have to use a pair of forward slashes at the end (//), not
backslashes (\\}

It must start in an empty window.

I found it *very* useful in searching through an entire directory of files
for a name, phone number, anything. I use it all the time. So often, in
fact, that I set it up as a save/get as

«SX02,«VA$WS»»«IF«PV02»==1»SW
N«EI»«IF«PV02»==2»BC ABXC
«EI»«SX01,«VA$PA»»BC SE«PV01»\*.*//CL

At the time I wrote it, I was very good at writing save/gets, but I'm not
sure I can explain it again. Basically, I think it checks to see whether
the window is open, if not, it opens a window, then it figures out the path
so it can insert the path and global search command at the command line,
then it cursors back one so I can insert the search text conveniently.

Norman


At 07:48 PM 8/27/01 +0200, tom horton wrote:
>
>I'm a newcomer to this discussion who's been using xywrite in a fairly
>simple fashion since 1985--writing books and news columns for a living.
>
>I use the se command lots and wonder whether there's any way to modify it to
>look through subdrctries.
>
>also, has anyone had much experience with Wordport and converting xywrite
>files to ms files. the demo version seems to work well, but it's 150 bucks,
>and you have to buy separate versions for dos and windows (I use windows 3.1
>loaded atop xydos on one older computer, and xywrite loaded from windows 98
>on a more up to date machine). appreciate any help
>
>

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