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- Press the arrow keys to select topics:
- Quick summary, Cursor movement, Simple editing, Marked blocks, Search/replace
- Saving/switching files, Ruler/windows, Simple formats, Printer fonts/commands
- Legend: ^ Ctrl, * Shift, @ Alt, + F key with Ctrl, Shift, or Alt, OR Alt digit
- F1. Show this help; exit, save, read +F1. Recording keys on/off, Grey* plays
- F2. Edit ruler line, split/join window +F2. Read ruler line from file
- F3. Copy marked, to file if marking +F3. Insert file at cursor
- F4. Move, to hold if marking (delete) +F4. Insert hold at cursor (un-delete)
- F5. Clear all marking +F5. Marking through next word
- F6. Switch between marking and marked +F6. Marking through current line
- F7. Reformat paragraph from cursor +F7. Turn justify and blank trim on/off
- F8. Change case, of letter or marked +F8. Center line or marked, in margins
- F9. Set find and replace text +F9. See and change cursor line number
- F10 Replace found text +F10 Un-replace, or Replace to end
- @space... fonts on/off ^Esc..... del word right *Esc..... transpose right
- Bksp.... del char left ^Bksp.... del word left *Bksp.... transpose left
- Enter... new line insert ^Enter... del to end line *Enter... new line, align
- Tab..... tab forward Ins..... space in, push *Ins..... redo Ins's, down
- *Tab..... tab backward Del..... del char right *Del..... redo Del's, down
- UD arrow up/down line ^Grey*... redraw screen *UD arrow top/bottom edge
- LR arrow left/right char ^LR arrow left/right word *LR arrow left/right edge
- Hom End. lf marg/end line ^Hom^End. save/goto place *Hom*End. beg line/rt marg
- PgU PgD. scroll one line ^PgU^PgD. prev/next parag *PgU*PgD. scroll window
- ScrLock. Push/Over mode Grey+-.. find next/back *Grey+-.. start/end text
- The cursor (flashing symbol on screen) shows where you are in your text.
- You can change the cursor position with these keys:
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- UD and LR arrow keys (on the right side) move once in direction shown.
- Shift with arrows moves to edge of screen (PCjr: shift and Fn).
- Ctrl with LR (left and right) arrows moves one word at a time.
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- Home key moves cursor to left margin, End key to after all text on line,
- Shift with Home to start of text on line; Shift with End to right margin.
- Ctrl with Home sets the "bookmark", Ctrl with End jumps to "bookmark".
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- PgUp and PgDn keys scroll a line at a time (PCjr: Fn with up/down arrow).
- Shift with PgUp and PgDn scrolls a screen at a time (PCjr: Shift, no Fn).
- Ctrl with PgUp and PgDn goes a paragraph at a time (PCjr: Shift, Ctrl, no Fn).
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- Shift Grey+ (or Alt +) moves to start of text; Shift Grey- (Alt -) to end.
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- Tab key moves to next tab position; Shift Tab to previous one.
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- Alt F9 key (or Alt 9) shows you cursor's column and line number.
- Enter a new line number to jump directly to a particular line.
- Simple editing changes text a character at a time. Typing a character either
- inserts it, pushing text right (pushright mode), or replaces old characters
- (overwrite mode). Scroll Lock (PCjr: Fn S) switches these modes. You see
- Push or Over on top line, and cursor changes size. Num Lock lets you use
- right-hand digit keys as a numeric keypad. Enter any character code by
- holding Alt and typing the code on this keypad.
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- Press Enter to start a new line (or break a line in two). Or just type
- and at right margin the word you're typing gets moved down (wordwrap).
- They insert a "line boundary" character, which Del, Bksp, etc. can delete.
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- To delete characters typed and go backwards, press Bksp (back arrow on top row);
- to delete ones at cursor and go forward, press Del. To insert a space but
- not move cursor, press Ins; use Ins / Del to slide a line back and forth.
- After sliding one line several spaces with Ins or Del, move down and press
- Shift with Ins or Del to slide a series of lines by the same amount.
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- To delete a word typed and go backwards, press Ctrl Bksp; to delete one at
- cursor and go forwards, press Ctrl Esc. To delete from cursor to end of a
- line, press Ctrl Enter; at start of a line, this deletes line. To recover
- deleted word or line, press Ctrl F4 (or Alt 4).
- To move, copy, or delete a block of text, first mark it and then operate on it.
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- Press F6 and as you move cursor you are MARKING text. After marking text,
- press F4 to delete it, which moves it to a special area called the hold. Or,
- press F3 to copy it to a file. After entering a file name, if the file
- exists you can cancel the copy, make the text replace the file, or append the
- text to end of the file. Or F5 cancels marking, or F6 makes it MARKED.
- Ctrl F5 (Alt 5) extends marking to next word; Ctrl F6 to next line.
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- Ctrl F3 (Alt 3) inserts file at cursor, Ctrl F4 (Alt 4) inserts hold at cursor.
- Delete keys Ctrl Esc for next word, Ctrl Bksp for prior word, and Ctrl Enter for
- rest of line are same as marking text and pressing F4. Ctrl F4 undeletes.
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- Press F6 with marking text to make it MARKED; moving cursor does not change
- marked, only marking. Marked/marking text looks different, and top line says
- "Marking" or "MARKED". F5 and F6 mark; F3 copies text, and F4 moves text.
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- With a marked block of text, press F3 to copy it to cursor position; copied
- text stays MARKED to make multiple copies. Or, with a marked block press
- F4 to move it to cursor position; moved text stays MARKED to try it in
- different places. Or F5 cancels marked, or F6 makes it MARKING.
- Grey+ key, on right (PCjr: Fn with +) searches for next occurrance of some
- text, and Grey- key (PCjr: Fn with -) for previous occurrance.
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- Press F9 to set text to search for or replacement text. The cursor is on top
- line; enter "Find" text or press F10 and enter "Replacement" text. When
- entering "Replacement", press F9 to enter "Find" text again; switch between
- them with F9 and F10. After entering them, press Enter to resume editing, or
- Grey+ or Grey- to immediately search forward or backward.
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- During a search small letters match capitals but capitals only match
- themselves. While entering "Find" or "Replacement" text, some keys match in
- special ways. F3 copies marked area. F4 copies hold area. F5 matches any
- letter or digit. F6 matches any other character; use "F6theF6" to avoid
- matching "other". F7 matches any character. F8 matches a line boundary.
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- Press F10 to replace "Find" text with "Replacement" text. First search with
- Grey+ or Grey-; replace with F10 if appropriate. Or, just press F10 to
- search for next occurrance and then replace it in one operation. Press
- Alt F10 (Alt 0) to search and replace continuously from cursor to end, or to
- un-replace last replacement. During continuous replacement, you can cancel
- process or "lock it in" to make it occur faster.
- Press F1 to operate on file being edited and see Help pages.
- You may have changed current text since you read it into memory; it must
- be saved by writing it back to disk at some point or changes will be lost.
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- F1 then F1 or F1 then Enter just continues editing after refering to Help.
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- F1 then F2 saves text if you changed it, then exits back to computer's DOS.
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- F1 then F3 saves text by writing it to disk, whether or not it was changed.
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- F1 then F4 saves text if it was changed, then tries to start another "shell"
- of DOS. If successful you can do DOS commands such as DIR, RENAME, DELETE,
- FORMAT, or run other programs while PC-Write and your text are in memory.
- Give DOS command EXIT to resume PC-Write where you left off.
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- F1 then F5 lets you change file name of text being edited (without saving).
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- F1 then F6 saves text if it was changed, then lets you switch to another file.
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- F1 then Esc sets text to "not changed" to cancel automatically save.
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- The Ruler Line sets margins and tabs, and divides screen into two windows.
- Press F2 to see ruler line and edit it. Enter L to set left margin, for body
- of a paragraph (wordwrap). Enter P to set paragraph margin, for first line
- of a paragraph (enter). Enter R to set right margin, where wordwrap and
- reformatting occur. Enter B to set ring-bell margin. Enter T to set tab
- stops. All other characters are ignored. Shift End releases right margin.
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- Press F2 to make ruler line divide screen into windows. Up or down arrow
- moves to window for editing. F1 then F6 sequence reads another file into
- one window, so switching windows also switches files. In window, F2 moves
- cursor to ruler line to switch windows. On ruler line, F2 cancels window.
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- When you start PC-Write, it trys to read a ruler line from file "RULER.XYZ"
- where "xyz" is your file's extension; if none, it tries for "RULER.DEF"
- Press Ctrl F2 (Alt 2) to read it from some other file. First line of file
- has ruler; rest has customization information about display attributes,
- printer fonts, and other options.
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- To PC-Write, a paragraph is a line of text, followed by additional lines of
- text which all have same left margin. First line can be indented or hanging.
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- Press F7 to reformat paragraph (from cursor line to end, or in marked area)
- so it fits inside right margin. Reformatting does not affect left margin.
- Reformatting occurs in one of three modes: JustOff, Justify, or Un-Just.
- JustOff moves words between lines to fit but does not add or remove spaces.
- Justify adds or removes spaces to get right side even at right margin.
- Un-just is like JustOff, but removes any extra spaces added by Justify.
- Mode is on top line. Press Shift F7 (Alt 7) to change it.
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- Press F8 to change case of letter between upper and lower. With marking or
- marked text, all of it has case changed.
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- Press Shift F8 (Alt 8) to center line between left and right margins. With
- marking or marked text, all is centered.
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- Ctrl Space inserts Hard-Space: use between words that must not be separated
- by reformatting. Ctrl hyphen inserts Soft-Hyphen; use within a word where
- it can be separated. These are translated by page printer. Ctrl P inserts
- form feed; use where you want a new page.
- Appearance of text, when printed by PR program on your PC-Write disk, is set
- using printer commands and fonts. Commands are separate lines in text that
- start with a dot. Fonts are special characters entered with Alt and letter.
- Fonts are visible or hidden; press Alt with space to switch visibility.
- If visible, top line has box symbol.
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- Fonts and Alt letter Printer Dot Commands
- B Boldface/bright .F:text footer line, for left facing pages
- C Compressed, 17 cpi .G:text footer line, for right facing pages
- D Double wide .H:text (.I) header line, left (right) pages
- E Elite, 12 cpi, Fast .J:number (.K) extra space, left (right) pages
- F Fast, one pass Pica .L:number length of page, total lines to end
- H Higher/superscript .M:number multiple line space (.M:2 double sp)
- I Italics (underline) .N:number page number to use on next page
- L Lower/subscript .O:file output file name (.O:prn for printer)
- O Overstrike with / .R:letter regular (default) font letter
- P Pica, 10 cpi, Quality .S:number spacing, lines/inch (6, 8, etc)
- Q Quality, two pass Elite .T:file text filename; next file to read
- S Second strike (bold) .U:prompt user input (one line response to prompt)
- U Underline .U user input (until user types Ctrl-Z)
- V Variable/proportional .V:number vertical extra lines at top
- W Double Underline .W:number width of header/footer lines
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