Intel AEDIT-86 manual Copying Text

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First, position the cursor over the first character of the section. In this case you want the period to close the sentence, so position the cursor on the space before the f in from.· Then press B for BLOCK. The @ sign covers the space. Then position the cursor one character past the end of the section you wish to block; i.e., place the cursor on the period immediately after the e in code. When you pressed B for BLOCK, the menu displayed several alternative subcommands: Buffer, Delete, Find, -find, Jump, and Put.

To delete the phrase, press 0 for Delete.

The phrase is deleted from the text and the space is closed automatically. The result is as follows:

High-level languages (Pascal in particular) more closely model the human thought process than low-level languages such as assembly language.

Thus, high-level languages are easier and faster to write than low-level languages, since one le55 translation step i5 required.

For faster cursor movement, use the (- )FIND or JUMP command. In the example above, to move the cursor to the word human (assuming that the current cursor position is at the end of the file), press the hyphen (-). AEDIT-86 prompts for the name of the target string. Type human and press <ESC) . The cursor moves to the h in human. To move forward in the file with the FIND command, press F, then type the 4'target string" followed by <ESC). Note that <ESC) must be pressed to terminate the -FIND command.

To jump to the beginning or the end of the file, simply press J for JUMP followed by S for Start or E for End.

1.2.3 Copying Text

Use the BLOCK command to copy existing text. If you want to copy a section of text to another part of your file, delimit the text using the BLOCK command and press B to specify the Buffer subcommand. The text is held temporarily in a buffer. Then, position the cursor where you want the text to appear and press G, the GET command. This command prompts for an input file. Pressing <RETURN) "gets" the contents of the buffer (where the text had been held temporarily) and places it at the current cursor position.

To move a section of text to another part of your file and delete it from its present position, delimit the text using the BLOCK command and press 0 to specify the Delete subcommand. The text is held temporarily in a buffer. Then, position the cursor where you want the text to appear and press G, the GET command. The command prompts for an input file. Press <RETURN) to place the buffer contents at the current cursor position. Note that copying or deleting a section of text is controlled by either the Buffer or Delete subcommand under the BLOCK command.

To copy a section of text to another file, delimit the text using the BLOCK command and press P to specify the Put subcommand. The menu prompts for an output file. Type in the filename and press <ESC) or <RETURN). If the specified file already exists, the message 4'overwrite existing file? (y or [n])" is displayed. The file is copied only if you respond with y. If the specified file does not exist, it is created, and the text is copied to the specified file.

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