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- A QEdit Tip from the SemWare Technical Support Staff
-
- .. Manipulating Marked Blocks (Part B)..
-
- QEdit provides several other ways to manipulate a marked Block.
- Manipulation of Marked Blocks can be done by using the Upper,
- Lower, Flip, Sort, Fill, Print, and WriteBlock commands.
- Following is a description of each of QEdit's block manipulation
- commands along with our default key combinations.
-
- Upper <Alt 1> - will change all characters in a marked block to
- upper case.
-
- Lower <Alt 2> - will change all characters in a marked block to
- lower case.
-
- Flip <Alt 3> - will reverse the case (upper to lower and lower
- to upper) of all characters in a marked block.
-
- The Upper, Lower, and Flip commands must be used within the
- marked block. If the cursor is outside of the marked block or
- if no block is marked, the character at the current cursor
- position is changed to upper case.
-
- Sort <Shift F3> - will sort a range of lines in ascending order.
- The sort key is determined by a marked column block. The
- length of the column block determines the range of lines to
- be sorted.
-
- This command can _only_ be used with a single, nonzoomed
- window on the screen.
-
- FillBlock <Ctrl K><L> - will fill an entire block with any ASCII
- character. FillBlock is recommended for use with column and
- word blocks only because it will fill other type blocks with
- characters beyond column 80.
-
- PrintBlock <Alt P><B> - will print the entire contents of the
- marked Block. The marked Block must be in the current file.
-
- WriteBlock <Alt W> - will write the marked Block to the named
- file. The editor will prompt for the name of the file.
-
- This feature will also allow you to save your current file
- under a different name. To do so, press <Alt W> with no
- marked blocks in the file. QEdit will prompt you for a
- filename. If the filename already exists, QEdit will prompt
- you with "Overlay existing file" and "Append to file."
- Select the option you desire or press escape to abort.
-
- If there is a marked block in the file, the WriteBlock
- command will, as before, write the current marked block to
- the named file.
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