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- The Text Editor
-
- The text editor is a basic utility in which you can enter and edit text for
- several commands. The maximum size of text allowed is 800 characters, or one
- window. The keys used in the text editor are:
-
- [Enter] Accepts the entry and closes the text editor.
-
- [Backspace] Erases the character to the left of the cursor.
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- [Delete] Erases the character to the right of the cursor.
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- [Up arrow] Moves the cursor to the end of the previous line.
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- [Down arrow] Moves the cursor to the start of the next line.
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- [Right arrow] Moves the cursor one character to the right.
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- [Left arrow] Moves the cursor one character to the left.
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- [Clr/Home] The first press moves the cursor to the start of the line.
- The second press moves the cursor to the top of the window.
-
- [Shift - The first press moves the cursor to the end of the line.
- Clr/Home] The second press moves the cursor to the bottom of the window.
-
- [Return] Inserts a carriage return, ends the line and moves the
- cursor to the start of the line below.
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- [Undo] Cancel the editing session and returns to the drawing session.
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- [Help] Displays help and information about the text editor.
-
- [Esc] This key has no function in the text editor.
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- %%XXX This allows you to use special characters which cannot be
- typed directly in through the keyboard. Type "%%" followed by
- the three digit character number of the special character.
- The character number must be padded with zeros and have a
- value between 1 and 255. For example; the third character of
- a font is inserted by typing "%%134" while in the text editor.
- The following special characters used in dimensioning can be
- entered using a short hand form :
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- diameter sign %%c
- degree sign %%d
- plus or minus sign %%p
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- For more information and a list of special characters
- see Appendix H.
-