Using primary commands in an editor session

When you are viewing or editing data, you can enter primary commands on the Command line of the editor panel to perform the following functions:

Action
Command
Scroll the data

BOTTOM primary command
DOWN primary command
LEFT primary command
NEXT primary command
PREVIOUS primary command
RIGHT primary command
TOP primary command
UP primary command

Scroll to a particular record number or text
LOCATE primary command
Find a string

FIND/FX primary command
RFIND primary command

Change a string

CHANGE/CX primary command
RCHANGE primary command

Switch between display formats

FORMAT primary command
FORMAT primary command
FORMAT primary command
FORMAT primary command
FORMAT primary command

Turn off highlighting of found strings
RESET primary command
Find fields in error
FE (Find Error) primary command
Change data in error
CE (Change Error) primary command
Print a record

RD primary command
RP primary command

Obtain record and selection statistics
RECSTATS primary command
Hide or show shadow lines
SHADOW primary command
Group or ungroup record sets
SHOW (REC) primary command
Zoom in to see all of one record
ZOOM primary command
View suppressed records
VIEW primary command
Display data in hexadecimal format
HEX primary command
Show or hide the Field Reference and Redefines columns when in SNGL display
REFS primary command
Show or hide the Field Type and Length columns when in SNGL display
TYPE primary command
Remove or change the logical view

TEDIT primary command
TVIEW primary command

Adjust the order of lines
SORT primary command
Display the RBA and record length information
RBALEN primary command

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