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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