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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.