The characteristics of each command follow:

FIND

Causes all lines that it finds to be displayed, and moves the cursor (scrolling if necessary) to the first occurrence of the search string.

SEEK

A special form of FIND that can only be used in an edit macro. It is different from FIND in that it does not change the exclude status of the lines found.

CHANGE

Causes the same effect as FIND, but it also has a second string operand (string2). During a search, whenever string1 is found, the editor replaces that string with string2. Data to the right is shifted, if necessary.

EXCLUDE

Causes lines that match the search not to be displayed. These lines remain in the data, however. Unlike FIND and CHANGE, it does not require a search string if you use the ALL operand. EXCLUDE ALL is often used with FIND and CHANGE because they cause excluded lines to be redisplayed. Use RESET to cause all lines to be redisplayed.

The syntax of each command is a variation of that listed here. See the command descriptions in Edit primary commands and Edit macro commands and assignment statements for the exact syntax.

                         .-.ZFIRST--.ZLAST-.  .-NEXT--.  .-CHARS--.                                    
>>-+-string-----------+--+-----------------+--+-------+--+--------+--+----+--+---------------------+-><
   '-string1--string2-'  '-labela--labelb--'  +-ALL---+  +-PREFIX-+  +-X--+  +-start_col-----------+   
                                              +-FIRST-+  +-SUFFIX-+  '-NX-'  '-left_col--right_col-'   
                                              +-LAST--+  '-WORD---'                                    
                                              '-PREV--'