HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 311)

How to Use REPLACE BLOCK
Page Mode Editing
058061 Tandem Computers Incorporated C–41
Your screen now looks like this:
I'm very good at integral
and differential calculus,
I know the scientific names
of beings animalculous;
In short, in matters vegetable,
animal, and mineral,
I am the very model
of a modern Major-General.
I know our mythic history,
King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's,
I answer hard acrostics,
I've a pretty taste for paradox,
I quote in elegiacs
all the crimes of Heliogabalus
In conics I can floor
peculiarities parabolous.
4. EDIT continues to display 16-line blocks of text from the EDIT file on
your screen until it has displayed the entire file or until you type the
characters // in columns 1 and 2 of a line. If you type // in columns 1
and 2 and then press any function key, EDIT asks the following
question:
SHALL I DELETE THE REMAINING LINES?
If you respond with “Y”, “y”, “YES”, or “yes”, EDIT deletes the line
containing the // sequence and any remaining lines in the range. Any
other response leaves the line with the // sequence and any remaining
lines in the EDIT file unchanged. No matter what your response, the
REPLACE BLOCK command terminates.
5. If you press \X(\S\UP0\DI-1( BREAK ) while EDIT is presenting a block or
while the terminal is in page mode, the REPLACE BLOCK command
stops, the terminal is brought back to conversational mode (EDIT), and
EDIT prompts for a command; the text in the text file represented by
the current block is left unchanged.