Progress
Language Tutorial
for Character
Text Entry and Manipulation
This section provides a basic overview of text entry and manipulation in the Procedure Editor. Much of the information in this section focuses on the keystrokes used to navigate through and edit text in an edit buffer.
The Procedure Editor is much like any other text editor. To enter text, make sure that the menu bar is not active and simply start typing. The characters you type appear at the current cursor location in the current edit buffer.
There are two modes of text entry in the Procedure Editor:
- Insert mode — This mode inserts a character that you type at the current cursor location, shifting existing characters to the right of the cursor by one space. This is the default text entry mode of the Procedure Editor.
- Overtype mode — This mode replaces any existing character at the current cursor location with the character that you type.
Press INSERT to toggle between the overtype and insert modes. The word “Insert” appears in the lower-right corner of the Procedure Editor display when you are in insert mode.
The procedure area is the visible portion of the current edit buffer. You can view it using the Procedure Editor. The Procedure Editor lets you scroll up and down through your data display, allowing you to expand your view of your data by using cursor keys.
Table 2–4 presents basic keys available in the Procedure Editor that help you move around and edit text in the current buffer. It highlights the similarities and differences between common keyboard mappings that you can use when you are running Progress in a character client mode either on Windows or UNIX.
The next section describes more advanced text editing techniques in the Procedure Editor.
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