PS TEXT EDIT Reference Manual

Ranges
TEDIT Topics
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Line ranges allow special designations for referring to lines symbolically.
You can use ranges and special line designators to limit the scope of some
TEDIT commands. For example, in the REPLACE command you can enter
in the line range field: T+7/43-6
20 Though talking and writing are related, overlapping skills,
21 they differ in several respects. Speech is peppered with
22 expressions that seldom appear in writing other than recorded
23 dialog: "OK," "y'know," "y'see," "Right?" and all the grunts
24 and murmurs that ask for and provide feedback in conversation.
25
26 When we talk, we pay less attention to the shape of our
27 sentences than when we write. We are more casual about
28 pronoun reference and agreement; we let and do most of the
29 work of joining statements; we rarely make the effort to
30 build phrases and clauses in parallel series; and we
31 scarcely ever use the nonrestrictive clause. (We might
32 write "Picasso, who was born in Spain, never lost his
33 fondness for Barcelona;" but we would probably say, "Picasso
34 was born in Spain, and he always loved Barcelona.")
35
36 The number of significant differentiations in sound that all
37 of us use is much larger than the number of symbols in our
38 writing system. In talk, words are always part of a pattern
39 involving pitch and stress, for which the marks of
40 punctuation provide only the barest hints. Writing therefore
41 blurs or overlooks a great many speech signals–including the
42 stance, the gesture, even the slight rise of an eyebrow
43 that may reinforce or modify the messages sent by speech.
1) $MYSYS.MYSUB.MYFILE 20/44 1:69 B30.
Begin 7 lines after
T, the top line on
the screen
Lines 21 through 37
is the line range.
End 6 lines before
the 43rd line.
Note The example is shown with the line numbers displayed on the terminal screen. You use the
SHOWNUMBER ON command to display line numbers.