PS TEXT EDIT Reference Manual

SECTION
TEDIT Topics
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What Happens
TEDIT carries out an action on a section using a text command starting at
the cursor’s position and ending just before the section marker. TEDIT
looks up the section marker in the profile and searches in the first column of
the file for its occurrence.
Tips
Section markers only begin in column 1 of a line.
The end of a section is either the end of the file or the next section
marker.
The default section marker setting is \NEW. Enter the RECONFIGURE
OPTIONS command to change this setting.
TEDIT recognizes any combination of uppercase letters or lowercase
letters in the section marker.
As a text item, SECTION can persist on the status line. (See
“Persistent” in this section.)
Because a file’s maximum width is 239 characters, some of the text in a
section can extend beyond the viewing area of the terminal.
Related Commands
The following commands perform some action on a SECTION. These
commands and their actions are fully described in Section 3.
ALIGN SEC adjusts the right margin of the section to the align width.
BACKWARD SEC moves the cursor to the beginning of the previous
section.
COPY SEC duplicates the section from the cursor to the end of the section.
DELETE SEC removes text from the cursor to the end of section.
ERASE SEC replaces text from the cursor to the end of the section with
blanks.