HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 62)

The BREAK Command: Breaking Lines
Revising Text in Your File
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You can use any nonblank character to mark breaks. Place the character
under each letter where you want to start a new line. For example, notice
how typing a “z” in three places in this line causes the line to break into
three lines:
Old King Cole was a merry old soul And a merry old soul
z z z
1 Old King Cole
1.01 was a merry old soul
1.02 And a merry old soul
*
You can break a line by using the keyword AT and specifying character
strings in the command line. When you supply EDIT with this kind of
BREAK command, you can skip the step of marking the breaks under a
displayed line. EDIT goes ahead and breaks the line where you’ve
indicated. For example:
*BREAK 2 AT "he" "for"
2 And
2.01 he called
2.02 for his
*
You can also break a line by specifying a column number with the keyword
AT. Use LIST COL to obtain a column number template, then use the
BREAK command to complete your change:
*LIST COL 1.1
....+....1....+....2....+....3....+....4....+....5....
1.1 was he; He called for his pipe, and he called for his
*BREAK 1.1 AT 10 34
1.1 was he;
1.11 He called for his pipe,
1.12 and he called for his
*
Breaks line 1.1
into three lines