Re: Extra Codes

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

Reply to note from Patricia M Godfrey  Thu, 19
Jun 2003 11:21:45 -0400

> But for a quick and dirty clean-up (if that isn't a
> contradiction in terms), you can always use Xy's WONDERFUL
> ability to copy and past to the command line. Find a string of
> garbage codes, define them, issue CI

There's U2 routine (actually, a whole group of them) that automates
that procedure usefully. DeFine a string in text (could be anything
-- a series of embedded formatting commands, for instance) and issue
CIDF new_string. The DeFined string is replaced by
new_string from the cursor position to the end of file. What's
relevant to this thread is that if new_string is nothing, i.e., you
issue, simply, CIDF (or CHDF -- recall that CH and
CI are the same command in v4+), the DeFined string is *deleted*
(replaced by nothing). For a Change Verify, issue CVDF.
All the expected switches work; e.g., to proceed from top of file
regardless of cursor position, issue CIDF/T or
CVDF/T. It's handy.

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