Topic: Having trouble with a search command (1 of 3), Read 36 times
Conf: Keyboard, keystroke macros
From: Walt Pattinson
Date: Friday, May 14, 2004 11:52 AM

I'm trying to define Alt-1 with the following keystrokes:
[LINE BEGIN][CURSOR DOWN][NEXT WORD][CURSOR RIGHT] ; position within the next line
[MENU]bs[CURSOR RIGHT][CURSOR RIGHT]...[CURSOR RIGHT] ; select a segment (11 chars total)
[T-REG COPY][OPTION]R1[OPTION]O ; copy to R1
[MENU]wn ; next window
[MENU]ss[OPTION]S|@(1)[OPTION]P[OPTION]N ; search for contents of r1
[MENU]wn ; back to original window (only 2 open)

The search does not work leaving the macro unfinished
If I simply execute a search interactively for "|@(1)" the search works

What am I missing? I'm using Ver 6.10.2, Win XP

Thanks

 


Topic: Re: Having trouble with a search command (2 of 3), Read 36 times
Conf: Keyboard, keystroke macros
From: Ted Green
Date: Friday, May 14, 2004 12:31 PM

At 11:52 AM 5/14/2004, you wrote:

>I'm trying to define Alt-1 with the following keystrokes:
> [LINE BEGIN][CURSOR DOWN][NEXT WORD][CURSOR RIGHT] ; position within the next line
> [MENU]bs[CURSOR RIGHT][CURSOR RIGHT]...[CURSOR RIGHT] ; select a segment (11 chars total)
> [T-REG COPY][OPTION]R1[OPTION]O ; copy to R1
> [MENU]wn ; next window
> [MENU]ss[OPTION]S|@(1)[OPTION]P[OPTION]N ; search for contents of r1
> [MENU]wn ; back to original window (only 2 open)
>
>The search does not work leaving the macro unfinished
>If I simply execute a search interactively for "|@(1)" the search works
>What am I missing? I'm using Ver 6.10.2, Win XP

The keystroke recording/playback does not handle variable search strings very well. I personally never use it.

Also, while I doubt this problem has been fixed in 6.11/6.12, I would like to point out again that only 6.11/6.12 are currently support. All 6.10 users are eligible for 6.11/6.12.

All such things are better handled using the macro language.

Ted.

 


Topic: Re: Having trouble with a search command (3 of 3), Read 36 times
Conf: Keyboard, keystroke macros
From: Christian Ziemski
Date: Friday, May 14, 2004 02:20 PM

On Fri, 14 May 2004 11:52:00 -0400, Walt Pattinson wrote:

>I'm trying to define Alt-1 with the following keystrokes:
> [LINE BEGIN][CURSOR DOWN][NEXT WORD][CURSOR RIGHT]
> [MENU]bs[CURSOR RIGHT][CURSOR RIGHT]...[CURSOR RIGHT]
> [T-REG COPY][OPTION]R1[OPTION]O ; copy to R1
> [MENU]wn ; next window
> [MENU]ss[OPTION]S|@(1)[OPTION]P[OPTION]N ; search for contents of r1
> [MENU]wn ; back to original window (only 2 open)
>
>The search does not work leaving the macro unfinished
>If I simply execute a search interactively for "|@(1)" the search works
>
>What am I missing? I'm using Ver 6.10.2, Win XP

You can use Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V to copy/paste the string to search for
into the search dialog (instead of using T-Reg 1 above).

That often works better in these cases.


Christian