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From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Sprint
Message-ID: <3878@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 15 Dec 88 04:46:59 GMT
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
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I've found one place where Borland's Sprint word-processor works BETTER than
documented: Shf-Alt-X (Utilities/Macros/Enter).  This function is documented
as allowing you to invoke any macro by name.  In fact, it will let you execute
anything you could put on a single 80-character line in a .SPM macro file,
except defining a new macro.

About 20 minutes ago, I wanted to shorten the divider lines in the interrupt
list by five dashes (that saves a full 4.5K....).  Knowing the above feature,
I simply went to the top of the file and typed Shf-Alt-X followed by

	while !isend { if (0 search "-------"){toeol r(del del del del del)}}

and 30 seconds later I had 900 shortened divider lines.  [Yeah, it helps
to have been hacking .SPM files recently :-)]


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