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- HELP FOR PALEDIT
- -----------------
-
- If you read this file from within PalEdit, press F7 to
- return to the document you were editing. Note that '^'
- stands for the Ctrl key in the following key descriptions.
-
- CURSOR MOVEMENT:
-
- Up/Down/Left/Right -> move one line/character
- Home/End -> go to begin/end of line
- PgUp/PgDn -> go one page up/down
- ^Home/^End -> go to begin/end of document
- ^Left/^Right -> go to previous/next word
-
- FILE:
-
- Menu-Q or Menu-FX or
- ESC-ESC -> exit editor
- F10 -> save current file
- Shift-F10 -> save file as... (or save selection as...)
- F9 -> open a new file
- Shift-F9 -> insert file at current location
- F7 -> go to next open file (if any)
- Menu-VO -> display list of open files and choose one
- Menu-FC -> close current file and go to nextÂ
-
- EDIT:
-
- DEL -> delete character under cursor
- Backspace -> delete character left of cursor
- ^DEL -> delete to end of line (exclusive)
- ^DEL^DEL -> delete to end of line (inclusive)
- ^Backspace -> delete to begin of line
- Shift-arrow-keys -> start selection
- ESC-ESC -> cancel selection (if selection active)
- COPY -> put selection into clipboard
- CUT -> put selection into cb and delete it
- PASTE -> insert clipboard contents
- ENTER -> break line at current position
- Menu-EI -> insert <key> literally (e.g. for Ctrl-keys)
- other keys -> insert key
-
- STATE:
-
- INS -> toggle insert/overwrite mode
- ZOOM -> toggle font size
- Menu-OA -> toggle automatic indentation on ENTER
- Menu-OB -> toggle creation of a backup file (*.BAK)
- Menu-OC -> toggle case sensitivity of searches
- Menu-VL -> set interline spacing for display
- Menu-TR -> set right margin for automatic
- line wrapping to a given value
-
- SEARCH:
-
- F4 -> start incremental search forward
- F4 F4 -> repeat last search
- Shift-F4 -> start incremental search backwards
- F5 (after F4/sF4) -> replace found string
- Menu-SG -> search line by number
-
- MISCELLANEOUS:
-
- Menu-TF -> format current paragraph (area
- between empty lines) according
- to current right margin
- F6 -> display line/column memory etc.
- Menu-FD -> shell to DOS ("exit" returns)
- DATE (Fn-,) -> insert date at current position
- TIME (Fn-.) -> insert time at current position
- Menu-VS -> set bookmark at current position
- Menu-VB -> go to bookmark (bookmarks are saved
- across sessions, BTW)
- Menu-MS -> Send current document as email
- using WWW/LX
- Menu-MG -> Retrieve email using WWW/LX
- Menu-ME -> Same, but delete mail on server
- Menu-MD -> Tell WWW/LX to hang up
-
-
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- EMACS COMPATIBILITY
- -------------------
-
- If you are used to the EMACS editor, you might want to use these
- keystrokes in place / in addition to the ones described above.
- Note that most, but not everything corresponds to EMACS.
-
- CURSOR MOVEMENT:
-
- ^P/^N/^B/^F -> cursor up/down/left/right
- ^A/^E -> go to begin/end of line
- ^V/ESC-V -> go one page up/down
- ESC-< / ESC-> -> go to begin/end of document
- ESC-B / ESC-F -> go to previous/next word
-
- FILE:
-
- ^X^C -> exit editor
- ^X^S -> save current file
- ^X^W -> save file as... (or save selection as...)
- ^X^F -> open a new file
- ^XI -> insert file at current location
- ^XB -> go to next open file (if any)
- ^X^B -> display list of open files and choose one
- ^XK -> close current file and go to nextÂ
-
- EDIT:
-
- ^D -> delete character under cursor
- ^K -> delete to end of line (exclusive)
- ^K^K -> delete to end of line (inclusive)
- ESC-Space or ^@ -> start selection
- ESC-W -> put selection into clipboard
- ^W -> put selection into clipboard and delete it
- ^Y -> insert clipboard contents
- ^Q <key> -> insert <key> literally (e.g. for Ctrl-keys)
- ^O -> open line: break line but stay
-
- STATE:
-
- ^XF -> set the right margin to the current
- cursor position
-
- SEARCH:
-
- ^S -> start incremental search forward
- ^S^S -> repeat last search
- ^R -> start incremental search backwards
- ^G -> search line by number
-
- MISCELLANEOUS:
-
- ^L -> redisplay screen
- ESC-Q -> format current paragraph (area
- between empty lines) according
- to current right margin
- ^X= -> display line/column memory etc.
- ^U <number> -> repeat next command <number> times
- ^X( -> start recording keyboard macro
- ^X) -> stop recording keyboard macro
- ^XE -> replay keyboard macro
- ^XM -> paste current macro at cursor position
- (handy to save a macro in PE.CFG)
- ^Z -> shell to DOS ("exit" returns)
- ESC-TAB -> jump to matching delimiter
- ESC-U -> convert (rest of) word to upper case
- ESC-L -> convert (rest of) word to lower case
- ESC-K <key> -> insert scan code of <key> hexadecimal
- ESC-M -> set bookmark at current position
- Ctrl-M -> go to bookmark (bookmarks are saved
- across sessions, BTW)
- ^X> -> shift selected area one to the right
- (use with ^U to shift more)
- ^X< -> shift selected area one to the left
- ^T -> swap character under cursor and character
- left of it (transpose)
- ^XC -> run compiler (use command from PE.CFG)
- ^XG -> go to next compiler error location after
- compilation, or to line number that is
- indicated on current line
- ^XR -> run any of the programs/filters
- specified in PE.CFG
-