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Command Sequences in the Workfile: EXEC

As you may already know, you can store exaEdit commands in the exaEdit profile files and then the commands are executed when exaEdit or a new workfile is started (compare section The Profile Files). But this execution happens only once and only before the file is loaded. If you want to have prepared sequences of exaEdit commands executed, you may use the command storages X and Y and the programmable function keys F1, F2, ..., but the amount of executable commands is very limited. An expansion of this possibility works as follows:
  1. Create a workfile with the name EXEC.
  2. Fill this workfile with the commands you want to have executed.
  3. Go back to the other workfile where you actually want to edit a text.
  4. Type the command EXEC.

Then, all characters of the workfile EXEC are executed in a row in the current workfile.

You should note the following particularities:

You can find further details at the description of the command EXEC in section The Commands in Detail.


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