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On not Editing Contexts
You can delete context lines and undelete them.
You can't, however, directly edit contexts in the Context Views. This is because the same context or part-context belongs to many different words in the source text and one word's context overlaps with another's. Although contexts look like a little window onto the source text, in fact each context is specially selected for each instance of each headword, and editing one would not affect all other occurrences, or partly overlapping occurrences, of the same text elsewhere.
If you find something in a context which is definitely not what's wanted, you probably need to edit the source text. You can do so without leaving Concordance by selecting View Text in Editor on the View menu. Then re-make the concordance to see the effect of your changes.
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