not to belabor the point, but for clarity, the enhancement I requested
(privately to Neil, my bad, sorry, and that's what screwed up this thread)
was simply that Qedit respond to
/L 100
with not only the current "Warning: no line", but also to actually do
/L 100+1
Not
/L 100/
which on a fast terminal will not get you to the vicinity of the missing
line 100, but will instead just make a mess of your terminal memory by
listing the rest of the file.
This has nothing to do with Visual mode; it was simply pointed out that
/V 100
responds quite nicely to the same situation and in a manner similarly as is
desired for /L.
Sorry about your headache, Neil; I hope I'm not making it worse!
Tracy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Armstrong [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 9:08 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: QEDIT Annoyance
>
>
> At 10:38 AM 6/14/2002 -0500, Shahan, Ray wrote:
> Tracy pointed out that I misunderstood what Roy reported, which is
> not suprising given that the headache I woke up with this morning
> is still with me.
>
> I believe that if you did an lj 99/ then you would get back to the
> vicinity and an lj 100, means list this absolute line number, which
> doesn't exist. Interesting enhancement request, to have list command
> behave similar to vi.
>
> I have passed it on.
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Neil Armstrong
> Robelle
>
>
>
> >I once made a request of the good folks at Robelle to add a
> 'waypoints'
> >function to QEDIT. Then we could set waypoint markers at
> various points in
> >the source, and revisit them without the need to remember a
> line or use the
> >Find function.
> >
> >
> >Ray Shahan
> >
> >"Life is what happens while you're busy making plans", John Lennon
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Tracy Pierce [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > > Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 10:19 AM
> > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > Subject: Re: QEDIT Annoyance
> > >
> > > Ray presents a helpful hint, but imho Roy makes a valid
> point, and the
> > > correct and quite correctable behavior would be "Warning: no line"
> > > followed
> > > by the near-as-possible response of displaying line
> 100+1. I bet Robelle
> > > is
> > > watching, and will have a custom tape ready for Roy
> before this thread
> > > dies.
> > >
> > > Tracy Pierce
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Shahan, Ray [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > > > Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 8:09 AM
> > > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > > Subject: Re: QEDIT Annoyance
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > This may help a little:
> > > >
> > > > If you enter a tilde at the command line while in VI, the
> > > > display will
> > > > toggle between where you currently are, and where you
> previously were.
> > > >
> > > > So, if you move lines 80/101 to line 300.01, then enter a
> > > > tilde, you will be
> > > > returned to line 102 (or the first line succeeding line 101).
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > HTH,
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Ray Shahan
> > > >
> > > > "Life is what happens while you're busy making plans",
> John Lennon
> > > >
> > > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > > From: Roy Brown [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > > > > Sent: Friday, June 14, 2002 7:02 AM
> > > > > To: [log in to unmask]
> > > > > Subject: QEDIT Annoyance
> > > > >
> > > > > If I'm working with a program source which I don't want to
> > > > renumber at the
> > > > > moment (possibly so it stays in sync with a printed listing
> > > > I have), and I
> > > > > Move some lines, including (say) line 100, and then I try
> > > > to List 100 to
> > > > > get
> > > > > back into the vicinity, QEdit says 'Warning: No Line'.
> > > > >
> > > > > Fair enough, but it *doesn't* move me to the nearest line
> > > > to 100 - it
> > > > > leaves
> > > > > the '*' line exactly where it was. So why not 'Error:
> No Line'?
> > > > >
> > > > > There doesn't seem to be any way I can find to change this
> > > > behaviour,
> > > > > either
> > > > > in List or Set List, though I might have missed some other
> > > > setting that
> > > > > will
> > > > > do it..
> > > > >
> > > > > A colleague has kindly pointed me to 'VI 100' - which
> > > > *will* start its
> > > > > display from the next nearest line after 100 without
> > > > complaint, when 100
> > > > > doesn't exist. Although this difference doesn't seem to be
> > > > documented in
> > > > > the
> > > > > QEdit manual..... :-(
> > > > >
> > > > > But I'm already in 'VI' mode, and I don't want to have to
> > > > do an 'L', see
> > > > > it
> > > > > fail, and then do a 'VI'.
> > > > >
> > > > > Can I get 'L' to do what I want, or are there
> drawbacks in this?
> > > > >
> > > > > The QEdit is 5.1, BTW, though my manual is for QEdit 5.0.
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > Roy Brown
> > > > >
> > > > > Posting with the OEnemy, tamed by OE-QuoteFix
> > > > > http://jump.to/oe-quotefix
> > > > >
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