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Document	V1I5A15
Title	VERBatim - V16
Keywords	V16 EDIT VSPACE ED VOC TEXT RTEXT
Text	An alternative Editor For those of you familiar WITH Revelation G2 B this is the old EDIT/ED For those of you who have never had the privilege of working WITH REVG this is a line editor WITH some useful features for quick program editing It can be useful to use this editor is string space is at a premium due to memory resident software It takes nearly 3K less space on the program stack and as it does not use VSPACE it saves a lot of space on screen storage (generally at least the length of the program again) To use this editor create a VOC entry WITH your chosen name (E G ED) and give it the following structure 0001 VERB2 0002 0003 VERBS 0004 V16 To conserve valuable space I present below a command summary and refer you to the Release G manuals (EDITOR G 31 and preceding) for further information Command Description A Repeat previous Locate B Goto bottom of CURRENT record C Print Ruler underneath CURRENT line (Useful for establishing character positions) DEn Delete n lines Omitting the n deletes the CURRENT line EX Exit without saving EXT Exit select list FI File FIC File and compile FS File and continue FD Delete record Gn Goto line n I Start inserting at CURRENT line Ln List n lines Ln/string Locate string in next n lines MEn1/rec/n2 Merge n1 lines FROM record rec in the same file starting at line n2 If rec is omitted (n1//n2) use CURRENT record Nn Down n lines P Programmable command By default is L20 To reprogram just type Lx where x is the command string E G L R99/end/END/ PC Convert record to DOS format RA Repeat previous replace Rn/str1/str2 Replace srt1 WITH str2 over next n lines To insert at beginning of line use Rn//text_to_insert To append to a line use Rn/ /text_to_append (where / / is more spaces than the largest amount of white space on the line To replace a line just use R then type in the new line To remove occurrences of text FROM a string use Rn/text// REV Convert to REV format T Goto top Un Up n lines Note that the HELP command and the TEXT command do not work (as the help record is not present and RTEXT no longer exists) TEXT will in fact bomb out WITH an 'RTEXT' not catalogued' message For a simple replacement for RTEXT see the next issue of REVMEDIA Once the code EXAMPLE given is entered and catalogued TEXT will work again (Volume 1 Issue 5 Pages 7 8)

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