Selective display syntax

[Francine]

Hi, I am a Kedit user from way back. There is a command ALL /text string/ which is very helpful. I am looking for a similar command in slickedit. I have tried selective_display but I guess I don't know how to use it, as it never returned the text I requested. Any ideas? My goal is to view all lines with a certain text string, then delete all those lines. Thank you very much.

[hs2]

There are a number of selective-display direct commands including 'all', 'allnot' etc. (see Help>Index: selective_display) quickly invoked from SE commandline.
E.g. 'all /textstring/' should work, but there a number of options for further tuning. See 'find' command documentation explaining the various options.
(<ESC> activates SE commandline)
But the 'selective-display' dialog is not too bad and also documented
Good luck, HS2