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- LOCATE (FIND)
-
- To locate a string of characters in your text area you must move the
- cursor to the Command Line (press Esc if it is not already there),
- type the LOCATE command, and then press Enter or F10. If you press
- Enter, the string will be located but the cursor will remain in the
- text area. If you press F10, the string will be located and the
- cursor will be moved to the string in the text area.
-
- You may locate strings either toward the end of the file or toward the
- beginning of the file.
-
- You may define your search to be either case sensitive (in which case
- only exact matches will be found) or case insensitive (in which case
- no distinction will be made between abc and aBC).
-
- You may define your search to distinguish between "the" and "their".
-
- Press the PgDn Key
-
- The general form of the case insensitive locate command is:
-
- /str
-
- This will find "str" anywhere in the file beginning one character
- position past the current text position and moving in the direction
- toward the end of the file.
-
- To find the same string toward the beginning of the file you would
- enter:
-
- -/str
-
- In both of the examples shown, no distinction will be made between
- upper and lower case, so if you want to find "the", you will find
- "the", "The", "THE", etc.
-
-
- Press the PgDn Key
-
- The general form of the case sensitive locate command is:
-
- \str
-
- This will find "str" anywhere in the file beginning one character
- position past the current text position and moving in the direction
- toward the end of the file.
-
- To find the same string toward the beginning of the file you would
- enter:
-
- -\str
-
- In both of the examples shown, a distinction will be made between
- upper and lower case, so if you want to find "the", you will find
- only "the", and not "The", or "THE", etc.
-
-
- Press the PgDn Key
-
- Differentiating Between "the" and "their"
-
- If you want to find all the "the"s, but do not want to find any
- "their"s, "then"s, etc., all you need to do is add another slash at
- the end of your locate command (the slash should be in the same
- direction as the beginning slash) as shown below:
-
- │ Case │ Case │
- │ Insensitive │ Sensitive │
- ─────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼──────────────────┤
- Toward end of file │ /the / │ \the \ │
- Toward beginning of file │ -/the / │ -\the \ │
-
- In this case, because a space is included at the end, "their" etc.
- will not match. This form has the disadvantage that if you are on the
- far right boundary of your line, there will be no space character and
- hence you could miss a "the". Experiment with locate on the word
- "the" in this file.
- Press F4 to Return to the HELP Menu
-