Re: Find/Replace Cursor Position

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Taylor" <lists@studioworks-tech.com>
To: <code400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 1:21 PM
Subject: Find/Replace Cursor Position


> Back in Aug/2000, I first brought up the problem of Code moving the cursor
> position within the view window whenever a "Replace All" is performed. I'm
> now on WDSC 4.0, and I still can't find a way to prevent this from
> happening. This "feature" has caused so many problems, and wasted so much
of
> my time, that I've taken to downloading the member, opening it in another
> editor to perform the replace functions, then uploading it back to the 400
> before I begin work within Code/400.
>
> Is there any way to work around this in the newest release?


well, this may be far afield, but, have you considered sed on the 400? It's
there. At least you don't have to download and open another editor...

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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
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 -- IBM Certified Specialist - RPG IV Developer

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