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From: conliffe@caen.engin.umich.edu (Darryl C. Conliffe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: David Letterman's top ten list of Apollo questions.
Summary: The mark stack lives.
Message-ID: <41980f41.b11a@falcon.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 20 Feb 89 22:50:00 GMT
References: <15210@vlsisj.VLSI.COM>
Organization: U of M Engineering, Ann Arbor, Mich.
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In article <15210@vlsisj.VLSI.COM>, bennett@vlsisj.VLSI.COM (Michael Bennett) writes:
> Does anyone know how to:
> 
>   8) Use the DM mark stack to do anything useful?  i.e. How in heck
>      does that #!&$% mark stack work?
> 
> --
> Michael Bennett   (408) 434-7851 (W)


Yep, there is a use for the mark stack.

To use the mark, try these key definitions:

  KD R1S CMS;DR KE
  #  SHIFT-POP:   Clear stack and mark current location for future return.
  
  KD R2S GM;RM KE
  #  SHIFT-AGAIN: Return to last mark.
  
  KD F3 /[*a-zA-Z._:@-$0-9@@@/@@@\*]/dr; echo; \[*a-zA-Z._@-$0-9@@@/@@@\*]\;/?/XC word;TL KE
  #  Put your cursor on a word or filename, press and hold F3 to copy a word.
  
  KD F3U TL;gm;es ' ';XP word;/[*a-zA-Z._@-$0-9@@@/@@@\*]/dr KE
  #  Release will use previous mark (Shift-POP) for new word location.
  
  KD F7S ES ' ';EE;DR;TR;XC TO_EOL KE
  #  Copy to EOL to buffer TO_EOL
  
  KD F7C DR;XP TO_EOL KE
  #  Copy image in TO_EOL to current cursor location.

In an open pad, hit SHIFT-POP to mark where you want a copy of the string
you are going to select.  Move the cursor to the string you want to copy.
Hit F3, and a copy will come to the position marked.

You can also mark a position (SHIFT-POP), move the cursor to a position
on a line of text, hit SHIFT-F7 (to copy), hit SHIFT-AGAIN to return to the
original mark, then hit CONTROL-F7 to paste the text at the new position.

Got it?

(By the way, I had to use * in the definitions to get them safely
 posted.  To get them to work, substitute a tilda for *.)

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 Darryl C. Conliffe  conliffe@caen.engin.umich.edu  (313) 721-6069
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