Edit User's Guide and Reference Manual

SET Command
EDIT Command Summary
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SET Command The SET command sets various internal parameters that control the EDIT
program and provides the user with greater flexibility when creating and
working in a file.
What to Enter SET setoption [, setoption ... ]
setoption
is one or more of the following keywords:
BLOCK JOIN
CONTROL/NOCONTROL OUTLEN
DITTO/NODITTO QUIET/NOQUIET
FREQ SHIFT/NOSHIFT
INLEN TABS/NOTABS
BLOCK numberoflines
You use BLOCK if you have a full-screen terminal and can use the page
mode editing capability (see the note following). BLOCK sets the
maximum number of lines presented on the screen at any one time
during a REPLACE BLOCK command. You can set numberoflines
from 1 to 20. The default number of lines is 16. When numberoflines
is set to 16, you can add up to eight lines of text to the lines displayed
on the screen. (Most screens hold 24 lines.) If you expect that you might
add more than eight lines of text, you can change numberoflines to a
lower number (less than 16). If you expect to add less than eight lines of
text, you can change numberoflines to a higher number (higher than
16). (See Example 6, following.)