Searching Through Files Command

[Robert Holmgren]

 Dear SysOp:

 With reference to the command (documented in Xy4 Command Reference pp.3-60ff)
that permits SEarches of multiple files for one or more strings:

 se filemask|textstring1[ORtextstring2]|

 This is an incredibly fast, handy, useful SEarch tool, except for one thing.
When you find an occurrence of the SEarch$ -- let's say, for example, that it's
the eighteenth instance of this $ in a given file -- and you issue an pen
command, the bloody file is opened at TF TopFile instead of at the location of
the eighteenth instance of the SEarch$! So then you have to find your target
location, which involves constructing an ordinary SEarch command and then
slugging through the text -- in short, going through the whole procedure twice
instead of once. It nullifies about 50% of the command's effectiveness -- a
really dumb design. The idea here is speed! And the command is so thoroughly
hard-coded that you can't get access to it and modify it; at least, I can't
find it in any menu or otherwise intervene and alter its manner of operation.
Am I doing something wrong? Any suggestions? Is it a "feature"? (It would be
great if the CHange command worked in parallel/similarly -- you know what I
mean, PROPERLY!)