[Info-vax] SET DEFAULT iterative logical name translation

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <4016c182-65dc-421c-92f8-82679e2d6d5en at googlegroups.com>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Lawrence_D'Oliveiro?= <lawrencedo99 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.

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.