                                LOCATE (FIND)

    To locate a string of characters in your text area you must move the
    cursor to the Command Line (press Esc if it is not already there),
    type the LOCATE command, and then press Enter or F10.  If you press
    Enter, the string will be located but the cursor will remain in the
    text area.  If you press F10, the string will be located and the
    cursor will be moved to the string in the text area.

    You may locate strings either toward the end of the file or toward the
    beginning of the file.

    You may define your search to be either case sensitive (in which case
    only exact matches will be found) or case insensitive (in which case
    no distinction will be made between abc and aBC).

    You may define your search to distinguish between "the" and "their".

                              Press the PgDn Key

    The general form of the case insensitive locate command is:

                                     /str

    This will find "str" anywhere in the file beginning one character
    position past the current text position and moving in the direction
    toward the end of the file.

    To find the same string toward the beginning of the file you would
    enter:

                                    -/str

    In both of the examples shown, no distinction will be made between
    upper and lower case, so if you want to find "the", you will find
    "the", "The", "THE", etc.


                              Press the PgDn Key

    The general form of the case sensitive locate command is:

                                     \str

    This will find "str" anywhere in the file beginning one character
    position past the current text position and moving in the direction
    toward the end of the file.

    To find the same string toward the beginning of the file you would
    enter:

                                    -\str

    In both of the examples shown, a distinction will be made between
    upper and lower case, so if you want to find "the", you will find
    only "the", and not "The", or "THE", etc.


                              Press the PgDn Key

                   Differentiating Between "the" and "their"

    If you want to find all the "the"s, but do not want to find any
    "their"s, "then"s, etc., all you need to do is add another slash at
    the end of your locate command (the slash should be in the same
    direction as the beginning slash) as shown below:

                             │     Case        │       Case       │
                             │  Insensitive    │     Sensitive    │
    ─────────────────────────┼─────────────────┼──────────────────┤
    Toward end       of file │     /the /      │       \the \     │
    Toward beginning of file │    -/the /      │      -\the \     │

    In this case, because a space is included at the end, "their" etc.
    will not match.  This form has the disadvantage that if you are on the
    far right boundary of your line, there will be no space character and
    hence you could miss a "the".  Experiment with locate on the word
    "the" in this file.
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