Re: Saving Keystrokes

[Robert Holmgren holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to note from "EBERLE, JIM"  Fri, 14 Feb 97 15:35:57 est

>   I use the Find feature to search by keyword for articles
>   in old weekly newsletters. Once the Find process has located
>   the file I want, I invoke the Open command to open the file. But
>   then I have to go to the command line and reenter the keyword using
>   the Search command to find the specific article I need.

Are you accomplishing this using the menus -- or do you enter manual
commands on the command line? If you want to minimize your keystrokes, you
better adopt a manual method -- i.e., memorize what the command is, and
issue it manually. Your "Find" command will remain on the command line,
after you find and open your target file! For example, if you issue:

 se c:\xy4\newsltrs.*/gritOguaranteed return income trust/
              ^the OR operator

and you then locate & open a file, the entirety of that command will still
be on the CMline. At that point, all you need to do is remove the
"c:\xy4\newsltrs.*" part, and you'll have a valid SEarch string. The only
thing that you could automate would be this removal. Is that what you wish
to do? If so, you need to indicate which version of XyWrite you're
using...


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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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