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HELP VED_NOPROMPTS Tom Khabaza, June 1990. <ENTER> noprompts The 'noprompts' command removes vvedpromptchar from the current file in ved. This is useful in conjunction with ved's "immediate mode". See HELP * IM. In immediate mode, ved inserts an invisible character (ascii 160, stored in the variable -vvedpromptchar-) into the file to mark the end of each prompt. These characters remain in a file even if it is written to disk and then read back into ved. The presence of the vvedpromptchar character in a file can have two undesirable side-effects: Firstly, the text forming part of a prompt, that is preceding -vvedpromptchar- on a line, cannot be edited (ved produces the message 'INSIDE PROMPT'). Secondly, this character produces unpredictable behaviour with some printers. Because of these side-effects, it is advisable to remove all instances of -vvedpromptchar- from a file which has been created using immediate mode before performing normal editing or printing it. This removal is performed by the ved command 'noprompts', which operates on the current file only. --- C.all/help/ved_noprompts --- Copyright University of Sussex 1990. All rights reserved. ----------