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From: che@ptsfb.UUCP (Mitch Che)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Wordstar feature???
Message-ID: <177@ptsfb.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-May-85 11:54:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: ptsfb.177
Posted: Wed May  1 11:54:46 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 4-May-85 04:11:28 EDT
References: <1040017@acf4.UUCP>
Reply-To: che@ptsfb.UUCP (Mitch Che)
Organization: Pacific Bell, San Francisco
Lines: 21
Summary: Speeding up Search/Replace

In article <1040017@acf4.UUCP> tsc2597@acf4.UUCP (Sam Chin) writes:
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>...the ^Q^A sequence and it started to replace. I was about to go watch TV
>while it did its thing (Wordstar's normal find and replace is very very very
>slow...) for about an hour. I was suddenly curious as to what would happen if
>I pressed the 1 key. Well I did and voila! the normal find and replace 
>sequence which would have taken an hour zapped through in a few minutes. I
>was amazed. Having used Wordstar for 6 years I felt rather silly. I can't
>find this in the documentation. Is this feature documented. I know that you
>can use the 1 key in a ^Q^Q sequence.

The Search/Replace command in Wordstar spends a tremendous amount of time
writing to the screen.  If you press ANY key after you start, WS will freeze
the screen and do all of the work without showing it to you.  Absolutely
required for jobs like yours... Don't know if this is documented.  Read this
in a magazine originally, and I was amazed also...

Mitch Che
Pacific Bell
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