CHAPTER
3
CURSOR
EDITING
8
In
this chapter
you
will
learn how
to
use Quill's simple editing facilities. The changes
to
the text will always occur at
the
position ot the cursor
You
must therefore use the
cursor
keys
to
move the cursor
to
the place
you
want
to
alter
before making any changes.
This
form of editing
is
known,
for
fairly
obvious
reasons,
as
cursor editIng.
YoU
may practise
using these technrques on a piece of text that
you
type
In
yourself, or
you
may use the
text
provided with
QUill.
If
you type
In
your own
text,
do
not worry about any mistakes
you
make.
In
fact
it
may be a good idea
to
add deliberate mistakes - each mistake
will
give
you
extra practice
in
using the editing facilities.
INSERTING
TEXT
Quill
is
initially
in
Insert mode,
so
that any text
you
type
IS
automatically inserted at the
cursor position.
To
insert letters or words
Into
the middle of the
text,
do
the following:
Move the
cursor,
by
uSing
the four cursor
keys,
to
the point where
you
want
to
make the insertion.
Type
the letters or words that
you
want
to
Insert.
The characters are Inserted
immediately under the cursor position, and any
eXisting
text moves
to
the right
to
make room for them.
The text
is
reJustlfied
automatically as you make the insertion.
tI
you wished
to
insert
severat
words,
it
would be annoying
to
have
to
wait until the
text
was adjusted each time you pressed a
key.
Quill detects this situation and reacts by
splitting the
line at the point where you are inserting
text,
This
is
known
as
an
automatic
text split.
You
can then type
in
as
much text
as
you
like.
Quill will restore the
text
when you finish inserting
text
at that point
(i.e.
when
you
press
a cursor
key,
a function
key
or ESC).
DELETING
TEXT
The deletion of
text
at
the cursor position
is
also very simple
You
use the CTRL
key
together with the cursor
keys.
To
see the action of the
left
cursor
key,
position the cursor immediately after the character
or characters that you want
to
delete. Now hold down CTRL and press the left cursor
key
bllefly. The letter immediatety
to
the left of the cursor position
will
be deleted and
the cursor
will
move one space
to
the left Each time you press the left cursor
key,
with
the CTRL
key
held down, one more letter
will
be deleted.
If
you
Wish
to delete'several
letters you can hold both the CTRL and the left cursor
key
down, using the auto-repeat
facility. Always press the CTRL
key
before the cursor
key.
tf
you use CTRL together with the right cursor
key,
text
will
be deleted, character by
characte~
from beneath the cursor position, and the text
to
the light will close up to
fill
the gap.
You
can delete whole words
at
a
time,
to
the left or
to
the light of the cursor, by using
SHIFT and CTRL together and pressing either the left or the right cursor
key.
You
can delete the whole line
to
the left or right
of
the cursor. Hold down the CTRL
key
and press the up cursor
key.
The line
to
the left of the cursor
will
disappear.
Similarly,
pressing the down cursor
key
will
delete the whole of the line
to
the right of the cursor.
In
all
cases the
text
will
be
rejustified automatically.
OVERWRITING
In
overwrite mode
you
can wllte over existing text and replace
it
with the new
text.
You
can change
to
overwllte mode by holding down SHIFT and pressing
F4.
The mode
Indicator
at
the
left
hand side
of
the
status
area
will
change from
'INSERT'
to
OVERWRITE'
indicating that text typed
at
the keyboard will replace
eXisting
text.
Pressing SHIFT and
F4 again will change back
to
insert mode.
With Quill set
to
overwrite mode, position the cursor at the start of the text
to
be replaced
and type
in
the replacement. When you have finished making replacements, return
to
insert mode by pressing SHIFT and F4 again, otherwise you will write over text that
you want
to
keep.
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