[Info-vax] SET DEFAULT iterative logical name translation

[alanfe...@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, October 27, 2021 at 12:32:09 AM UTC-4, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <4016c182-65dc-421c... at googlegroups.com>, 
> =?UTF-8?Q?Lawrence_D'Oliveiro?= <lawren... at gmail.com> writes: 
> 
> > What drove me mad about EDT was its insistence on a \_current 
> > direction_/ mode. 
> 
> It's not a bug, it's a feature. (By the way, your 8-bit characters have 
> been substituted with 7-bit replacements to be more usenet-friendly, via 
> an EDT macro.) 
> 
> But you can have what you want! Say you want to SEARCH for a string: 
> 
> PF1 PF3 <string> ENTER 
> 
> is probably what you're doing. But 
> 
> PF1 PF3 <string> KP4 
> 
> is "find in forward direction" 
> 
> and 
> 
> PF1 PF3 <string> KP5 
> 
> is "find in reverse direction. 
> 
> ENTER is, as usual, "FIND NEXT" in the current direction. 

Why Press Enter? Why not press PF3. That way your finger is already in place to find the next one!

> 
> So you can change (or confirm) the current direction at the same time as 
> you tell it to search, all with one keystroke. That's what I call 
> efficiency.

AEF