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sequences. You don't really type the entire word, CONTROL;
instead, you simply press the CONTROL key followed by the
control character, Z or C or v.
5 m 0 nth 1 y bud 9 e t CONTROL·Z - 5 , + 5 L
If edlin can find any lines that contain the words monthly
budget, then the displayed lines are the five lines before and
the five lines after the current line. Note that the current line
(the line with the asterisk) must be before the line or lines
that contain the search string .
• You
can insert a control character, such as CONTROL·C, into
text by using the quote character, CONTROL·V, before it while
in insert mode. CONTROL·V tells MS·DOS to recognize the next
capital letter typed as a control character. You can also put
a control character in an S (search) or R (replace) command
by using the quote character. For example, the following
command finds the first occurrence of CONTROL·Z in a file:
SCONTROL·V Z
The next example replaces all occurrences of CONTROL·Z in a
file
with pencil.
rcoNTRoL.VZCONTROL.Z penc i 1
And this next command replaces all occurrences of CONTROL·C
with pen.
5 CONTROL·VCCONTROL·Z pen
It is also possible to insert CONTROL·V into the text by typing
CONTROL·VV.
• The CONTROL·Z character ordinarily tells edlin, "This is the end
of the file." If you have CONTROL·Z characters elsewhere in your
file, you must tell edlin that these other control characters
do not mean end-of-file. To tell edlin to ignore the CONTROL-Z
characters in the file and to show you the entire file, use the
/b switch. For example, when you start edlin and want to
ignore all CONTROL-Z characters in a file, you could use the
/b option with the edlin command and your filename.
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