bsrdp@warwick.ac.uk (Hylton Boothroyd) (07/28/89)
Since starting to use `zoo', I have found the addition and editing of
multiline comments painful. There is no way of editing earlier lines during
`zoo cA' calls.
However, I've just discovered that an edited file of comments can be piped
in. So I now have a simple recipe.
To add a considered multiline header,
* edit a file, fheader, of the form
text refined to the usual n-th degree
/end
* type
zoo cA zoohive < fheader .
To add a set of comments for each file,
* edit a file, fcomments, of the form
considered comment on file 1
/end
:
considered comment on file 2
/end
with no empty lines
* type
zoo c zoohive < fcomments .
Editing comments already in place requires the comments to be extracted,
edited, and piped back in. Or a copy of fheader and fcomments to be kept in
the zoohive.
Not perfect. But easier than retyping.
Or has Rahul got an even easier way?
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