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- 0.1. Shortcuts
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- dataComet documentation. (Rev. 11/28/97)
- Copyright 1995 databeast, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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- This document has information on (select and use "Find..." to go to the section):
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- Summary of special key-action combinations
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- Summary of special key-action combinations
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- The following list summarizes the functions
- modified by the Option, Shift, and Control keys.
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- HELP!
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- "Control-Click" on a menu, dialog item, or control brings up
- the dataComet documentation describing the item.
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- "Control-Command-Key" also brings up the documentation for
- the menu command which the key triggers!
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- Standard Macintosh commands:
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- "Command-." cancels macros, printing, and other actions.
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- Standard Macintosh Extended Keyboard keys:
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- "Help" performs a dataComet Find command.
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- "Ins", "Delete ->", "Page up", "Page down", "Home", and "End"
- perform the "normal" Macintosh window function.
- (To send VT220 keys using these keys, hold down the Shift key.)
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- Mouse Click actions:
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- "Go Away Box" closes a window (and session, if any).
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- "Zoom Box" zooms a window out to maximum size.
- "Shift-Zoom Box" zooms a window in to a width of
- 75 characters rather than out to maximum print width.
- "Option-Zoom Box" miniaturizes a window rather than
- zooming it.
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- "Title Bar" allows you to drag a window.
- "Command-Title Bar" lets you drag a window without bringing it
- to the front.
- "Option-Title Bar" drags a session window and its' .edit window
- together.
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- "Option-Grow Box" resizes the window and renegotiates the
- size with host. (Not all Telnet hosts support this option.)
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- "Click" in the emulator window sends cursor positioning commands.
- (Note that emulator mouse clicks can be customized using Macros).
- "Command-Click" in a window will select a word and call Internet
- Config to resolve it as a URL (with "mailto:" as the default).
- "Option-Click" in the emulator screen resets the emulator selection
- without re-positioning the cursor; it also causes the emulator
- to select whole lines if you drag the mouse.
- "Control-Click" in an emulator window performs an IBM 3270 light pen
- select operation, when possible, and otherwise performs a
- "word select/copy/paste" operation like that used in the
- ALA example document.
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- "Option-Click" on a button brings up a dialog to set a macro for
- the button.
- "Option-Click" on the shaded area of the button bar adds a new
- macro button. (Buttons with no title are disabled.)
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- "Option-Menu Macro select" allows you to redefine a menu macro.
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- ASCII Keyboard Control Characters and function keys:
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- "Control-Key" sends an ASCII control character.
- "Option-Key" sends an ASCII control character ONLY when using
- Mac+ keyboards, which have no Control key.
- "Option-Key" may optionally be made meta-characters for EMACS.
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- "Control-Option-Key" sends an ASCII meta-character.
- "Control-Option-Shift-Key" sends an ASCII meta-shift-character.
- "Control-Shift-Key" sends a meta-control-character.
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- VT220 keys: Clear -> F1, '=' -> F2, '/' -> F3, * -> F4
- F1 -> F1; Shift adds 12 so Shift-F1 -> F13, etc.
- ("Print" is F5, "Help" is F15, and "Do" is F16.)
- Shift to send VT220 "Find", "Prev", etc. rather than
- the Apple function "home", "page up", etc.
- The VT220 key mappings can be changed to F1 -> F6 (NCSA-like)
- mappings using the "Control Keypad╔╔" dialog.
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- The FKeys can also be sent with the buttons on the left hand
- side of the window; press the '?'/'M' button to see the labels.
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- IBM Keyboard PF keys:
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- "Control-Key" or keypad key sends IBM 3270 PF keys;
- Return -> IBM Enter; Shift-Return -> Line Feed;
- F1 -> PF1; Shift adds 12 so Shift-F1 -> F13, etc.
- . . . see the document on Emulators for more information.
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- The IBM PF Keys can also be sent with the buttons on the left
- side of the window; press the '?'/'M' button to see the labels.
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- Edit window Keyboard -> Host commands:
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- "Enter" sends text from the topmost .edit window to a host;
- "Command-Return" breaks a line and sends it to a host;
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- "Shift-Enter" executes the text as a macro;
- "Shift-Command-Return" breaks a line and executes it as a macro;
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- Note that the Enter key commands listed here are very useful
- when pasting boilerplate text! Macintosh-native fonts are
- automatically translated to the host character set selected
- using the "Translation" menu for the target host window; the
- target host window is the next topmost connected emulator
- window.
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- File Menu commands:
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- "Shift-New╔" and...
- "Shift-Open╔" open text only windows.
- "Option-New╔" opens a clone of the topmost window.
- "Option-Open╔" opens a session document without opening the
- connection.
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- "Shift-Open Log╔" selects a file to save VT100 print streams
- rather than printing them.
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- "Option-Save text as" sets a text document's creator type so
- it will be opened using dataComet (dataComet's ID is '3278').
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- "Shift-Print╔"/Shift-Print selection╔" print without displaying
- the Print dialog.
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- "Option-Quit" quits dataComet without querying the user to close
- connections and save documents (no save is performed).
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- Transfer Menu commands:
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- "Shift-Upload" can be used to accept a download (by default
- AutoReceive is enabled, so usually this is not necessary).
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- Edit Menu commands:
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- "Shift-Copy" and...
- "Shift-Append screen to .edit window" perform a TEXT screen copy
- (adding a space at the end of each line and a carriage return
- for each two carriage returns).
- "Option-Copy" copies the emulator selection as a Table.
- "Shift-Option-Copy" prompts for a Paste string for use with "Repeat
- Paste" (and sets the contents of the Clipboard to the string).
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- "Shift-Paste" automatically translates from Macintosh fonts to other
- fonts using the Translation selected for the target window.
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- Edit window Paste only:
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- "Option-Paste" does a search before pasting ("Repeat Paste").
- "Option-Shift-Paste" does a "Replace all" operation.
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- "Shift-Clear buffer" resets the emulator (including auto-magically
- backmapping all VT100 graphics characters in the buffer to
- fix garbage from invalid SO command characters).
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- "Shift-Find" does a search backwards.
- "Option-Find" does a search using the current selection.
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- "Shift-Go to line╔" goes directly to the end of the scroll buffer
- without presenting the dialog box.
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- "Shift-Record session" records the emulator session including the
- host commands received and characters sent to the host. Adding
- Option- records Telnet layer interactions also.
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- Edit -> Selection Menu commands:
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- "Command-Shift-Move Cursor" extends the selection range (edit only).
- "Command-Option-Move Cursor" moves by words (left/right)
- or sentences (Up/Down).
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- "Shift-Page Up/Down" shifts selected text in an edit window by
- inserting or deleting spaces.
- "Option-Page Up/Down" shifts selected text in an edit window by
- inserting or deleting tabs.
- "Option-Shift-Page Up" deletes ALL leading spaces and tabs in the
- selected text in an edit window.
- "Option-Shift-Page Down" shifts selected text in an edit
- by inserting '>' characters.
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- "Shift-Match Brackets" matches backwards.
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- Window Menu commands:
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- "Shift-Close session" causes a close without macro execution.
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- "Shift-Window Menu Select" redirects output to the selected window.
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- "Shift-Zoom" zooms a window in to a width of 75 characters
- rather than out to maximum print width.
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- Control Menu commands:
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- "Shift-Font" changes the screen font only.
- "Option-Font" changes the printing font only.
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- "Shift-Translation" selects the Translation table so that
- characters received from the host are NOT translated to the Mac
- character set, so you can use the Comet-Fonts and use standard
- Mac Option-key combinations to enter "foreign" chacacters;
- this way only characters SENT to the host are translated.
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- Edit window Translation only:
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- "Translation" translates the selection in an edit window from
- the Macintosh character set TO the selected set.
- "Option-Translation" translates the selection in an edit window
- back into the Macintosh character set FROM the selected set.
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- Macro Menu commands:
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- "Shift-Record actions for macro" records a session without generating
- match strings (this is useful for recording 3270 or other
- page-mode screen macros which have a fixed page layout with
- changing data).
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