"Paul H. Christidis" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Alfredo,
>
>It seems that what you mind the most is having to 'space over' beyond the
>entire file name in order to delete the trailing '1'.

I don't really mind :-)

I was just being a bit facetious ("Really?", you may rightfully say).


>...  Perhaps you could use
>the following:
>
>  :QEDIT
>
>  Qedit/iX. Copyright Robelle Consulting Ltd. 1977-1997.  Type ? for help.
>  (Version 4.6.02)
>  /set mod HP
>  /l jrrfull.job.sys 1
>      1     !JOB JRRFULL,MANAGER.SYS;HIPRI;pri=cs
>  /b
>  l jrrfull.job.sys 1
>  o
>  o jrrfull.job.sys 1
>  >d
>  o jrrfull.job.sys
>
>One of the drawbacks of the 'HP' modify mode, however, is the lack of
>support for tab stops.


I use Stan Sieler's qzmodify (based on Eugene Volokh's vemodify) instead of
the built-in Qedit modify, so I do a ctrl-L ctrl-D (while keeping down the
ctrl key) to go to the end of the line and then delete that last pesky
"number one" (which I still humbly believe Qedit should just ignore, in a
swashbuckling fashion).

Qzmodify is included with every Qedit release and you might want to try it.
It gives you wonderful WYSIWYG editing in line mode *and* it fully supports
tab stops.  Just do:

/set modify = qzmodify       << You can include this in your qeditmgr file >>

Then, to get help, modify some line and type ctrl-q (which will not modify
anything and will just display the qzmodify manual on your screen).

By combining Qedit's full-screen VISUAL WYSIWYG mode with qzmodify's
WYSIWYG in line mode, you certainly get the best of both worlds.


>BTW judging from the size of most of your postings it is hard to believe
>that your fingers are anywhere close to their character quota....


Actually, the secret is that I have redefined most combinations of keys on
my Mac keyboard so that every (multiple) keystroke is a shortcut for some
longish phrase or another.  And my Mac has a 10-cell cut & paste clipboard
so I can do (as commonplace Mac events) these kinds of (otherwise) esoteric
things:

command-c (standard copy to the standard clipboard, which is clipboard #0)
command-v (standard paste from the standard clipboard)

command-c-1 (copy to clipboard #1)
command-v-1 (paste from clipboard #1)
...
command-c-2 (copy to clipboard #2)
command-v-2 (paste from clipboard #2)

Analogously for "cut", of course.  I seem to remember that some legacy Unix
windowing systems have a subset of this.


When editing in Qedit VISUAL mode, I have all of these wonderful Mac
clipboards in addition to Qedit's HOLD files (the "implicit hold" file and
the "explicit hold file", which use the HP3000).  Total Mac + HP3000
clipboards: 12.  Not bad as useful scratch pads to save thousands of
keystrokes.


Isn't this fun *and* productive at the same time?


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