Replace

Keyboard: Alt+E+R, Ctrl+F3

Replace Text dialog box allows you to specify the text to search for and what to replace it with.

The Replace Text dialog box and of the Search Text dialog box have many common components. Both dialog boxes share the same history lists of recently searched strings.

Text to Find

Enter the search string into the Text to Find input box. Choose OK to begin the search, or Cancel to terminate it.

Press the Alt+Down arrow key or press the associated List Button (with Down arrow) to display a history list associated with theText to Find input box.

You can also specify the search string by selecting a block in the edited text before calling the Search Text dialog box. The selected text will appear in the Text to Find input box.

New Text

Enter the replacement string in the New Text input box. The history list can be used to select a string from the list of previously used strings. Also the replacement string can be entered by using the Paste command.

Once you have entered the search string and the replacement string in the input boxes, you can choose OK or Change All

to begin the search; choose Cancel to terminate it.

Options

This group of options defines the comparison method that

the Editor uses when makes a search.

Direction

The Direction radio buttonsspecify the search direction.

Origin

The Origin radio buttons are used to specify whether the search should start from the current cursor position or from the beginning of the file.