HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 67)

The NUMBER Command: Renumbering Lines
Revising Text in Your File
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The NUMBER
Command:
Renumbering Lines
EDIT does not automatically renumber lines as you work in your EDIT file.
EDIT silently assigns sequential line numbers to the lines in your file as you
edit, using decimal line numbers when whole numbers are not available.
You can use the NUMBER command to:
Renumber your entire file
Renumber a portion of your file
You might want to renumber an entire file when you’ve done a great deal
of editing and the line numbers become difficult to follow. Or you might
need to renumber a portion of a file to make room for new text.
Suppose your file contains these lines:
1 Jack and Jill
1.1 went up a hill
2 To fetch a pail
3 of water.
9 Jack fell down and
10 broke his crown
11 And Jill came
12 tumbling after.
15 Jack and Jill
16 went up a hill
17 To fetch a pail
18 of water.
20 Jack and Jill
25 Jack and Jill
30 Jack and Jill
50 One shoe on and
51 one shoe off,
Renumber the entire file by using the range ALL with the command:
*NUMBER ALL
*