HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 27)

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Introduction to EDIT
058061 Tandem Computers Incorporated 1–7
When you simply press RETURN at the asterisk prompt (instead of entering
an editor command or text), EDIT responds by listing the next line of text in
the EDIT file. For example, if your EDIT file contains the lines:
7 I am only one,
8 But still I am one.
9 I cannot do everything,
10 But Still I can do something
11 And Because I cannot do everything
12 I will not refuse to do the something
13 that I can do.
then:
*LIST 7
7 I am only one,
* RETURN
8 But still I am one.
* RETURN
9 I cannot do everything,
*
Lists the text on
line number 9
Lists the text on
line number 8
Lists the text on
line number 7
If you continue to press RETURN until EDIT returns just the asterisk, you
have arrived at the end of the file, and EDIT cannot find any more text lines
to return.
Line Numbers You use EDIT to display, add text to, and change text in an EDIT file. EDIT
assigns a line number to each line of text that you add to an EDIT file and
stores each line of text in numerical order within the EDIT file. Although
you can see the line numbers along the left margin of the screen (for
example, after you request a LIST command), the numbers are not part of
your actual document.