Deleting Lines - IBM Professional Series User Manual

Moving Down or Up: Use the DOWN command to move the
display one or more lines toward the end of a file and the UP
command to move the display toward the top of the file.
Their format is:
Down n
or
Up
n
You substitute the number of lines you want to move down
for "n." Both these commands change which line in the file
is the current line on your screen.
Another way to move up or down in a file is to use the /
(slash) prefix command. You can type a / in the prefix area
of any line on the screen. When you press the ENTER key,
that line becomes the new current line. Then, if you enter an
INPUT command from the command line, the new lines you
type in input mode will be inserted between the current line
and the line that followed it.
(Note: When the current line is somewhere in the middle of
your file and you enter an INPUT command, the part of your
file that was displayed in the bottom half of the screen
disappears temporarily. It is not gone from the file. After
you type your data in the input zone and return to edit mode,
that part of the file will appear, after the lines you typed.)
You enter a / in any position of the prefix area. For
example:
/==== or ==/== or ====/
Deleting Lines
The d prefix command deletes the line in which it is entered.
(Do not confuse it with the Del key, which deletes characters
and spaces within a line.) You type a letter "d" in any
position of the prefix area of that line. You can type a
number before or after the "d" to delete a number of lines.
The following are all valid ways to type a d prefix command.
====d Deletes this line.
d==== Deletes this line.
lOd== Deletes this line and the next nine lines.
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