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Language Tutorial
for Windows


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.

Table 2–4 presents basic keys available in the Procedure Editor that help you move around and edit text in the current buffer.

Table 2–4: Basic Editing Keys


Key Function
Common
Keyboard
Mapping on Windows



Description
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CURSOR-UP 
Move the cursor up one line.
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CURSOR-DOWN 
Move the cursor down one line.
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CURSOR-LEFT 
Move the cursor to the left one character.
CURSOR-RIGHT 
Move the cursor to the right one character.
BACKSPACE 
BACKSPACE 
Delete the character immediately to the left of the cursor.
BACK-TAB 
SHIFT-TAB 
Move the cursor to the left one tab stop.
DEL 
DEL 
Delete the character the cursor is on.
LEFT-END 
HOME 
Move the cursor to the beginning of the current line.
NEXT-WORD 
CTRL-CURSOR-RIGHT 
Move the cursor right to the first character after the next space character.
PAGE-DOWN 
PAGE-DOWN 
Scroll down one screen in the current buffer.
PAGE-UP 
PAGE-UP 
Scroll up one screen in the current buffer.
PREV-WORD 
CTRL-CURSOR-LEFT 
Move the cursor left to the first character after the previous space character.
RETURN 
ENTER 
Insert a new line at the cursor location.
RIGHT-END 
END 
Move the cursor to the end of the current line.
TAB 
TAB 
Move the cursor to the next tab stop.

The next section describes more advanced text editing techniques in the Procedure Editor.


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