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Date:Mon Mar 13 13:29:14 1995 
Subject:Re: ved search and replace in poplog v14.5 (PS) 
From:Steve Knight 
Volume-ID:950313.03 

> Since so few people have responded to my query about this I have begun
> to suspect that the vast majority of VED users never use backward search
> anyway. (I've even found some who don't use any search: they always
> manually scroll up and down the file looking for things.)

What I would like is, now we have the luxury of XVED, is a 
find command that puts up a dialog-box.  ("Oh, boring," I can hear
people thinking to themselves.  But wait!  There's more.)  When
the user presses the "Search" button it composes a VED command,
sticks it on the command line, closes the dialog box, and
executes the command line.

In this fashion, it doesn't matter how complicated the command
line syntax is.  Furthermore, by watching the way the commands are
compiled, I could figure out the complicated syntax.

This gets around the usual problem that the dialog box doesn't know
when to go away.  In the best systems (e.g. Macintosh) there is
one command to bring up the Find box (#F) and another to redo (#G).
Since XVED already has a redo command, it would be logical to make
it work through the command line.

Steve