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  • Subject: Re: Annoying Find/Replace Behaviour
  • From: "R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 14:30:58 -0400

-----Original Message-----
From: John Taylor <john.taylor@telusplanet.net>
To: Code400 List <code400-l@midrange.com>
Date: Monday, August 14, 2000 1:46 PM
Subject: Annoying Find/Replace Behaviour


>A couple of suggestions for the code/400 team:
>
>1) If I select a snippet of text before hitting CTRL-F, it would be nice if
>the editor would insert the selected text into the "Find:" prompt for me.
>Saves mucho keystrokes.
>

Hey, John, you can do this with the ZOOM command.  Highlight the word, press
esc, type zoom, press enter.  POOF! All lines with that word appear.  Move
the cursor to the line you are interested in and ctrl-a.  POOF! All lines
around that line appear within the context window.


===========================================================
R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Administrator
 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

"Those who would give up essential Liberty,
  to purchase a little temporary Safety,
  deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

     - The Papers of Ben Franklin



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