Implicit Commands

Qedit 5.7 for HP-UX

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Implicit Commands

Some commands have no alphabetic name. In Line mode, pressing only Return means display the next line and a backslash (\) means display the previous line, $ means enable Memory Lock and $- means disable Memory Lock. In either mode, ? means Help, any line number means go to that line, a string means display the next line with that string, and "^" means search backwards for a string:

55 find and display line 55 or higher
FIRST find and display first line
;;;; display the next 5 lines
\ display the previous line
-5 move current line back 5 lines
"string" display next line with string
^"string" display previous line with string
$ turn on memory lock at this line
$- turn off memory lock


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