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- M's HELP FILE
- The Alternate and Control keys are used like the shift key. In this help
- text we abreviate Control by a ^ and Alternate by Alt. For example:
- [^X] = Control X. Typing an Escape is equivalent to holding the Alt key down.
- (Keystrokes are written in square brackets.)
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- EDIT MODES
- [^X M] followed by one of [C] [O] [W] [X] [S] [I] [T] [P] or [B] Toggle Mode:
- C) Cmode: toggles smart indenting, parenthesis matching, C programming mode
- O) Overwrite: toggles between overwriting and inserting
- W) Wrap: toggles on/off automatic line wrapping (usually for a text mode)
- X) Exact: toggles search case sensitivity
- S) Scroll: toggles the vertical scrolling method
- I) cIndent: toggles the C indentation method
- T) Tab: toggles the use of hard tabs
- P) regular exPressions: searches use regular expressions
- B) Binary: toggles displaying as a binary
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- CURSOR MOTION (Arrow keys are Right Left Up Down)
- [Right]==[^F] forward [Left]==[^B] backward
- [Up]==[^P] up [Down]==[^N] down
- [PageUp]==[Alt V] page up [PageDown]==[^V] page down
- [Home]==[^A] front of line [End]==[^E] end of line
- [HomeHome] top of page [EndEnd] bottom of page
- [HomeHomeHome]==[Alt <] top [EndEndEnd]==[Alt >] end
- [^Right]==[Alt F] forward word [^Left]==[Alt B] backward word
- [^Up] up paragraph [^Down] down paragraph
- [Alt G (number)] goto linenumber [^X .] exchange cursor with mark
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- DELETING AND COPYING
- [^T] transpose characters [Alt C] capitalize word
- [Alt L] lowercase word [Alt U] uppercase word
- [Backspace] delete left [Del]==[^D] delete right
- [^Backspace] delete word left [Alt Backspace] copy word left
- [^Del]==[Alt D] delete word right [Alt Del] copy word right
- [Alt ,] delete whitespace right [Alt .] delete whitespace
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- [Alt Spacebar]==[^Spacebar] sets mark at the cursor position,
- [^K] kill to end of line, store in kill buffer
- [Alt K] kill line, store in kill buffer
- [^Y] yank a copy of the kill buffer to the current cursor position
- [Alt Y] yankPop; cycle through the ring of kill buffers
- [^W] wipes from last mark to cursor, stores in kill buffer
- [Alt W] writes from last mark to cursor into kill buffer
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- The general procedure for copying or moving text is:
- 1) Mark the beginning of a block using [Alt Spacebar]
- 2) Move the cursor to the end of the block.
- 3) Delete [^W] or copy [Alt W] into the kill buffer.
- 4) Move the cursor to the new location and [^Y] yank it back.
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- SEARCHING AND REPLACING
- [Alt ^F] forward to matching )]} [Alt ^B] backward to matching {[(
- [^S] isearch forward [Alt S] repeat last search
- [^R] reverse isearch [Alt R] repeat last reverse search
- [Alt ^R] jumbo replace dialog [Alt ^S] jumbo search dialog
- [Alt T] tag search (uses "tags" file) [Alt Q] function search
- During an isearch: [bacspace][^-] undo, [^S][^R] repeat, [^G][ESCAPE] exit
- [^Y] yanks, [Alt Y] yankPops, [Alt /] wordContinuation
- In Exact Mode searches are case sensitive
- Otherwise searches are lower case insensitive, upper case sensitive
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- FILE CONTROL
- [^X ^F] open a newfile [^X R] revert to save
- [^X K] kill this file [^X ^W] rename and write this file
- [^X ^S] save this file [^X S] save all modified files
- [^X ^C] exit querying changed files [Alt Z] exit saving changed files
- [^X I] insert a file at the cursor
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- In File Dialogs, the "*" wildcard is legal in file and directory names...
- The "**" wildcard matches directory names "." and all subdirectories
- [Spacebar] or [TAB] in a file/buffer Dialogs continues the
- path/file/buffer name, it may bring up a file list box...
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- WINDOW CONTROL
- [^L] center the cursorline [^Insert]==[^X O] other window
- [Insert]==[^X X] next buffer [Shift Insert] last buffer
- [^X B] goto the queried buffer [^X ^F] goto/open the queried file
- [^X 1] make one fullsized window [^X 0] remove this window
- [^X 2] split window horizontally [^X 5] split window vertically
- [Alt endkey] grow window right [Alt homekey] shrink window left
- [Alt pagedownkey] grow window down [Alt pageupkey] shrink window up
- [Alt (arrow key)] move window
- [Alt J] bookMark >> P=push Space=pop 123456789=goto
- [Alt +] push window configuration [Alt =] pop window configuration
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- LINE WRAPPING
- [Alt P] reformat the current paragraph/comment (in Cmode)
- [^TAB] retab the line
- [Alt TAB] set wrap index and (multiple sized) tabs, e.g.: tabs=2 8 4
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- UNDO
- [^-] undo [Alt -] redo
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- MACROS
- [Alt M] load a macro (store keys) [Alt ^M] save all current macros
- [ESCAPE (number) (key)] execute (key) the given (number) of times
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- HELP
- [^H H] bring up this help [^H B] describe keyBindings
- [^H F] describe Functions
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- SHELLS
- [^Z] begins a dos shell
- [^X N] runs a dos command and captures the output...
- The default command is gmake, which is a make facility...
- [Alt N] go to next error...
- Used repeatedly after [^X N], we parse the output of [^X N]
- and go to the file and line number of the next error.
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- MISCELANEOUS
- [^G] is the all purpose abort.
-
- [^Q (any key)] quoted insert, inserts the key as a literal...
- in Binary mode you can insert hex
-
- [Alt I] information, [D]-Date, [T]-Time, [P]-Pathname, [A]-Absolutepath,
- [+] count++, [-] count--, [=] count, [0-9] set count
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- [^X D] diff Directories
- [^X E] compares 2 windows (equal), does a diff from the cursors
- Exact Mode diffs are white space sensitive, else white insensitive.
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- [Alt X] execute named command (space does commandContinuation)
-
- [Alt /] word continuation
-
- Care and Feeding of M:
- 1) Put M.EXE on your path
- 2) Set TMP to a directory for temp files (in the autoexec):
- set TMP=c:\temp // Periodically empty this directory.
- 3) Set HOME to a directory, the macrofile and startfile live here
- set HOME=c:\home
- 4) Optionally set SWAPDIRS as a path variable to use for swap files
- set SWAPDIRS=d:\temp;c:\temp;j:\temp
- m will swap to d:\temp until it is full than to c:\temp etc.
- 5) Optionally set the environment variable M (in the autoexec):
- set M= a2-+*/()[]{} -i -s -cXXXX -t4 -p -wXXX
- -a1,a2 set alphabets, a1=wordChars, default is A-Za-z0-9_
- a2=symbolChars, no default
- -c XXXX is a 4-digit hex number specifying colors
- Each digit controls a letter or a background color
- -h hard tabs, (indentation is a mix of spaces and tab chars)
- -i toggle cIndent Mode, same as [^X M I]
- -l load file lines as text always... (don't auto sense binary)
- -p paid your money, (don't show startup message)
- -s toggle the Scroll Mode, see [^X M S]
- -t,-tc set the tabs... -tc2 will set cmode tabs to 2
- -v attempt checkout of read only files
- -w set wrap column, XXX is a decimal number
- 6) Optionally set up an M.CFG file
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