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- From: scottm@informix.com (A. Scott Myers SSE)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.informix
- Subject: Re: Updating with editing capability
- Date: 11 Nov 1992 16:08:05 -0500
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- PERFORM allows for inserting and deleting of characters. Typing CTRL A will
- toggle in and out of insert mode. Typing CTRL X will delete a single
- character at a time. Also, CTRL D will delete all characters to the end of
- the field.
-
- Help information pertaining to this can be brought up interactively while in
- insert or update mode of PERFORM by typing CTRL W (the help key).
-
- scottm (Scott Myers - Informix, Tampa)
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- } From: uunet!thylacine.cs.wisc.edu!rchoi (Ron Choi)
- } Message-Id: <1992Nov10.164807.7451@cs.wisc.edu>
- } Subject: Updating with editing capability
- } Date: 10 Nov 92 16:48:07 GMT
- } Reply-To: uunet!thylacine.cs.wisc.edu!rchoi (Ron Choi)
- } Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
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- }
- } i've using perform for entering and updating records. for updating,
- } it would be nice if the user-interface supplies some sort of editing capability.
- } only way one can update in perform is to type over the old entry. can
- } we do better than that in 4gl or third-vendor user-interface? in other words,
- } is there a way to insert characters and delete characters with out typing
- } over the original entry?
- }
- } thanx in advance,
- }
- } --
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- } ron choi \\ #include <disclaimer.h>
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