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- Edith Manual Text Windows 24th September 1994
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- There are six TYPES of text window.
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- DEFAULT text windows
- ALTERNATIVE text windows
- BINARY text windows
- the NOTE PAD
- TEXT BUFFER and TRASH CAN extract windows
- HELP windows
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- Each type of text window has its own settings for
- colours, fonts and dimensions, which can be set in the
- dialogs in the Options menu (Text Appearance, Fonts).
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- Also dependent on text window TYPE, a window can have
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- a MENU BAR
- a vertical SCROLL BAR
- a RULER
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- The MENU BAR is a copy of the desktop menu bar, plus a
- box indicating the text status. The vertical SCROLL
- BAR is a special type of scroll bar that moves your
- text up and down immediately as you move the slider.
- However, when the RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON is used, it
- behaves as a normal window scroll bar. The RULER
- indicates the TRUE TAB stops (upper set of
- triangles), the EDITOR TAB stops (lower set of
- triangles) and the RIGHT MARGIN (the thick vertical
- line). See the printed manual or the help page for the
- EDITOR OPTIONS dialog for an explanation of the
- tab/true tab system.
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- The TEXT STATUS BOX in the right corner of the menu bar
- shows
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- five FLAGS:
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- CHANGES - for No changes
- / for Changes, but Undo restores
- original state
- X for Irristorable changes
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- UNDO - for Undo not applicable
- U for Undo applicable
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- SELECTION - when there is no selection
- S when there is a selection
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- EDITABILITY - when text is editable
- R when text is read-only
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- NEWLINES d when text is in MS-DOS style
- u when text is in UNIX style
- m when text is in MAC/C64 style
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- and the CURSOR ROW and COLUMN positions.
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- USING THE MOUSE
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- ∙ Click the left mouse button anywhere in the text
- window to move the cursor.
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- ∙ Move the mouse over the text while holding down
- the left mouse button to select a contiguous text
- fragment.
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- ∙ Double click the left mouse button to select a
- word. Triple click to select a line.
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- ∙ Move the mouse over the text while holding down
- the right mouse button to select a square area of
- text.
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- ∙ To add new fragments to the selection, perform
- any of the above operations while holding down a
- SHIFT key.
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- ∙ Click the left mouse button inside a selected
- fragment to drag and drop the selected text. Hold
- CONTROL while doing this to move instead of copy.
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- ∙ Click the right mouse button to paste (the same
- as PASTE in the EDIT menu or the ^V key
- combination).
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- ∙ Click the left mouse button on the ruler to add
- or remove an editor tab stop
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- ∙ Click the right mouse button on the ruler to set
- the right margin.
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- THE EDIT MENU
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- Undo Undo the last global operation or the
- changes to the line you were just
- editing.
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- Repeat Repeat the last editing operations on
- one line. (typing text, delete,
- backspace, delete word, etc.)
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- Clear Clear the selection, the position
- stack (the triangles on the scroll
- bar) and the buffer for the REPEAT
- operation.
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- Cut Copy the selection into the cut/paste
- text buffer and discard the selected
- text.
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- Copy Copy the selection into the cut/paste
- text buffer.
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- Paste Paste the cut/paste text buffer into
- the text.
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- Delete Copy the selection into the
- delete/textop text buffer and discard
- the selected text.
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- Overlay Paste the cut/paste text buffer into
- the text line by line, left-aligned.
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- Open Selection Create a stretchable selection that
- follows the cursor as you move it
- down or type text.
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- Select SouthEast Quadrant
- Select the paragraph to the southeast
- of the cursor.
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- THE TEXT MENU
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- The operations in this menu operate on the selection,
- but if there is no selection, they will apply to a
- default scope.
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- Shift Left Shift selected lines left over one
- tab position. Use ^< to shift over
- one column. (Depending on your
- keyboard, you may need to add
- the SHIFT key).
- DEFAULT SCOPE: ONE LINE.
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- Shift Right Shift selected lines right over one
- tab position. Use ^> to shift over
- one column.
- DEFAULT SCOPE: ONE LINE.
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- Compress Tabs Convert as many spaces as possible to
- true tab characters
- DEFAULT SCOPE: WHOLE TEXT.
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- Expand Tabs Convert all true tabs to spaces
- DEFAULT SCOPE: WHOLE TEXT.
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- Kill Trailing Blanks
- Remove all spaces at the end of lines
- DEFAULT SCOPE: WHOLE TEXT.
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- To Lower/To Upper/Capitalize.
- DEFAULT SCOPE: ONE WORD.
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- Erase Remove the selection by blanks.
- DEFAULT SCOPE: ONE WORD.
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- Sort: Sort the selected lines.
- DEFAULT SCOPE: SOUTHEAST QUADRANT
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- Reverse: Reverse the selected lines.
- DEFAULT SCOPE: SOUTHEAST QUADRANT
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- Format: Format paragraph(s).
- DEFAULT SCOPE: SOUTHEAST QUADRANT
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- SEARCH MENU
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- Search Press HELP on the Search dialog.
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- Next Target Search next
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- Previous Target
- Search next, opposite direction
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- Replace Replace selection by cut/paste
- text buffer; fragmentwise, when
- possible. (see the printed
- manual).
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- Next Fragment Find the next fragment in the text
- selection.
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- Previous Fragment Find the previous fragment in the
- text selection.
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- Push Position Save the current cursor position.
- It will be marked on the scroll
- bar by a black triangle.
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- Pop Position Jump to the last cursor position
- saved
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- Goto Line Enter a line number and move to
- that line.
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- Insert/Replace Mode
- Toggle between insert and replace
- mode.
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- REMARKS
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- ** It may occur to the user that typing text into a
- window only works when the mouse is above that
- window. Moreover, clicking on a background window
- with left mouse button will not top it. This
- allows one to type and make selections in
- background windows as well.
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- If you think of these features as undesirable,
- they can be disabled in the GEM OPTIONS dialog.
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- Edith Manual Text Windows 24th September 1994
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