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Inserting Lines

There are several possibilities to do this. The first solution is the input mode, which you learnt to know in the section Creating a File. If you would like to insert lines between the first and the second line of your data, for example, you have to position your workfile (compare chapter Current Line, Positioning) in such a way, that the first line is the current line. Then you put exaEdit into the input mode with the command

Anything else should be familiar to you from the section Creating a File.

A second method to insert lines uses the

To apply it, you have to type a line (not in the input mode but in the exaEdit home position). This line contains not only your data but also the number of a line in front of it. In other words, it is something which looks like a line in the data zone:

From this input exaEdit creates the corresponding line in the data zone. Your choice of the line number determines the position of the new line. It is up to you whether or not you write the number with leading zeros.

By the way, it does not matter whether or not you put a space after the number:

Both spellings are treated as the same. But, in contrast to this, additional spaces make a difference.

If the line number you have specified already exists, there will not be a new line inserted but the existing line will be overwritten.

Further methods to insert (special) lines will be described in later sections.


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