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The Edit-menu

General Information

The Edit menu offers you the usual editing functions of a basic text editor and some extra analysations tools in AV.NET. It's very important that you notice that the search/replace/count functions support three special magic keywords that you can use to identify characters that cannot be printed or otherwise written into the input box! Here's a list:

##TAB## - the tab character
##LF## - the line feed character
##RET## - the carriage return character

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Undo

Undo traces back your recent editing steps in the current file. You can set it to various levels that will control how many edit steps you can undo. See Options|Undo Depth.

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Copy

Use this to copy your selected text to the clipboard.

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Cut

This copies your selected text to the clipboard and removes the text from your open document.

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Paste

Use this to paste data from the clipboard into your open document.

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Delete

This removes the character at the typing cursor (or the selected text area).

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New Text Search

Use this feature to start a text search within your selected zone (or to interrupt a search in progress to start a new one). See Edit|Zones. To find your matches, you must use Edit|Find Next for each match. You will get a message when all matches have been explored.

Also see: Magic Keywords!

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Find Next

Use this to find the next match to your text search. See Edit|Search.

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Search and Replace

This allows you to search for a given expression and replace it with another within your desired zone. Unlike the text search, this will automatically replace all matches without prompting you for each replacement. Use zones to limit the area of effect of this function. (See Edit|Zones).

Also see: Magic Keywords!

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Count Instances of Text

Use this function to count how many times an expression is repeated in your desired zone.

See: Magic Keywords!

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Operate in Selected Zone

This is an important function that modifies the function of several other editing commands, such as searching, replacing and counting instances of text. When this option is selected, you are in selected zone mode. This means that any editing functions you perform will be strictly limited to the selected area in your document. When this option is off, you are in global zone mode, and editing will be performed on the entirety of the current document.

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Select All

This simply selects the entire open document.

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Save and Execute

This saves the current document and attempts to open it with the default program associated with it in Windows.

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