Mike Farrell ([log in to unmask]) recently asked for "can't live without"
command files.
 
One that I find very useful scans all of my :FILE equations for a string.
It can be used only from within Qedit, but that doesn't matter to me, as
<plug> I stay in Qedit all day </plug>. Here is CHKEQ in its stripped-down
form:
 
   ANYPARM string
   :listeq >eqs
   /list    eqs "!string" (up)
 
One that I rarely use but keep around "just in case" is called ON:
 
   if bound( InsideQEDIT )  and  InsideQEDIT = 1
      :set echo=on
   else
       set echo=on
   endif
 
Escape-colon wasn't too bad if you couldn't see what you were typing, but
"set echo=on" is a little much. <gripe>(BTW, this command file does NOT work
properly in MPEX if InsideQEDIT isn't defined, as MPEX still does NOT do
short-circuit evaluation -- what a pain!)</gripe>
 
Hope the above does not constitute waste-of-bandwidth.
 
--Glenn Cole
  Software al dente, Inc.
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