Sinclair QL User Manual page 263

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of fhe found text If this is the occurrence you want you can leave the command by •
pressing ENTER.
However, once you have given the search command some text to look for, you can use
it again to find the next occurrence of that text Instead of pressing ENTER, fust press
the C key. If you do this Quill continues to search from the current cursor position until
It finds the next occurrence of the given text You can repeat this as many times as you
like, finding successive occurrences. Press ENTER to leave the command when you
have found the occurrence you want
If, at any stage, Quill does not find another occurrence of the text in your document
it tells you so and waits for you to press the space bar and will then return to the main
display.
REPLACE
The replace command is similar to the search command, but also gives you the ability
to replace some or all of the occurrences that are found. The command IS In the second
command menu, so you select it by pressing F3, 0 and then R.
You are asked to type In the text to be found. When you press ENTER at the end of
the text, Quill immediately finds the first occurrence and asks you to type in the
replacement text (don't forget to press ENTER at the end) ,
QUill then asks if you want to replace the found text Press the R key to replace the text
- if you press the N key the text is not replaced. In either case Quill then continues
the search for the next occurrence and offers you the same choice of keeping or replacing
the found text This continues until no further occurrences are found, or until you press
ENTER.
If, at any stage, Quill does not find another occurrence of the text in your document
it tells you so and waits for you to press the space bar and will then return to the main
display.
You can use the command to make multiple replacements, insertions or deletions as
illustrated in the following examples:
To replace occurrences of 'river' by 'stream: give 'river' as the text to be found and
'stream' as the replacement text
To Insert br stream: give 'river' as the text to be found and 'river or stream' as the
replacement text
To delete 'river: give 'river' as the text to be found and give no replacement text
Uust press R).
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