Tips and Tricks: Mass Update

[Jose Lerebours]

On 06/03/2016 03:37 PM, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>
>>> This saves the keystrokes - move to the next record and hit U to 
>>> update.
>>>
>>> Documentation for this feature is hard to find and it has been part of
>>> filePro forever.
>>>
>>> Hope this jogs your memory or gives you a new tool.
>>
>> Never heard of this and indeed a nice feature.
>>
>> Can it be mimicked using @key?  What would be the "pushkey" 
>> equivalent for F4?
>
> F4 is the key typically assigned to DELL ("delete line", not the 
> computer company).  Way back when, "delete line" was typically Ctrl-U, 
> which IIRC was also the TRS-DOS Profile II keystroke for "enter mass 
> update mode", which was then carried over into Profile 16.
>
Takes me back to the days when "word star" was my editor of choice to 
write code (Clipper, DBIII, DBIV); one had to know all the shortcuts or 
key combinations to be truly productive.  I never did learn the keys for 
`vi` except for those most commonly used.