Prestored commands

For repetitive tasks, you may construct a sequence of commands, save these as a record on a file, and then recall these as and when needed.

You will create a prestored command by means of a sequence such as:

=CHANGE C/AVENUE/AVE/

which will store the command:

C/AVENUE/AVE/

so that it can be recalled simply by typing the command:

=CHANGE

If you wish to store a sequence of commands, you will separate the individual commands by the command delimiter character:

This is the back-apostrophe, and used like this:

=COMM1 L/STREET`C/STREET/ST

which will first find the word STREET (using the L/STREET command) and then change this to ST. Again, the prestored sequence is invoked by name:

=COMM1

You can construct a repetitive loop, for example:

=WHOLE CA/BOULEVARD/BVD/`FI`=WHOLE

and initiate this to change all occurrences:

=WHOLE

The character ` is the default character used to separate the sequence of commands in a prestore sequence.

Any name many be given to the prestored sequence; it must start with the = sign and there must be no spaces within the name. There may be any number of prestored commands active at any one time.

You can remove a prestored command from the current store, by issuing the command:

=WHOLE<space>

Prestored commands may be held as a record on any file.

When you leave AE, all your prestored commands are saved on the file AE_COMMS as record:

PRE.xxx.ttt

where xxx is your login name and ttt is your port number.

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