FIND SELECTED
Searches for the currently selected text, rather than for a typed string.
This is useful to find a mixed-case occurrence (such as a book title)
without having to type the string exactly.
Steps:
1. Select the text you want to find (see help on SELECT).
The selection can be in EVE or in another DECwindows application
running concurrently. However, the selection cannot cross lines.
2. Use FIND SELECTED.
Usage notes:
o If an occurrence is found, EVE puts the cursor at start of the found
text and highlights the found text in bold video. The selection is
canceled.
o If there is no occurrence in the current direction, EVE automatically
searches in the other direction. If there is an occurrence in that
direction, EVE asks if you want to go there---press RETURN for Yes, or
type No and press RETURN.
o To edit the found text, use a command or key that works on a range or
box, such as COPY, BOX CUT, FILL, REMOVE, or UPPERCASE (see help on
Ranges And Boxes). If you used SET BOX SELECT, an editing operation on
the found range uses the start and end of the range as diagonally
opposite corners of a box.
o To find another occurrence of the same string, use FIND NEXT or press
the FIND key twice.
o To cancel the highlighting, move the cursor out of the found range, or
use RESET.
o If there is a found range and no selection, FIND SELECTED is the same
as FIND NEXT.
o In typing the FIND command, if you want to search for the word
"selected," put it in quotes or let EVE prompt you for the search
string.
Related topics:
CHANGE DIRECTION FIND RESET SELECT WILDCARD FIND