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- * ANSIED Full Screen Editor HELP *
-
- ANSIED is a full-screen editor that lets you enter and edit messages on the
- BBS. To use ANSIED, just type in your text. The words will wrap
- automatically, just like in the normal RBBS line editor. If you make a
- mistake, you can backspace over it, also just like in the normal line editor.
-
- When you are done entering the message, press ESCape twice. This will bring
- up a menu of things you can do. To save or abort the message, select END by
- hitting the 'E' key.
-
- To move the cursor around on the screen, try the arrow keys on your keyboard.
- If they don't work, use the Wordstar (tm) "diamond" key combinations to
- replace the cursor keypad. They look like this (^ = Ctrl):
-
- ^E
- ^
- ^A ^S < > ^D ^F
- v
- ^X
-
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- -- Tips --
-
- 1. If you've "quoted" lines of another person's message, and want to delete
- some of the extra quoted lines, use the main menu command B)lock delete,
- explained below.
-
- 2. If your screen is garbled due to line noise, use the main menu P)aint
- command, which will repaint your screen.
-
- 3. You can't change the text on lines below the "[* End of Message *]"
- marker, or on certain RBBS system lines at the beginning of your message.
- To enter text, just move off of those lines.
-
- 4. If you make a lot of changes to the message, and it looks "choppy," use
- the main menu command R)eflow, which will clean up the messages'
- appearance.
-
- 5. You can't enter extended ASCII characters into a message.
-
- 6. You shouldn't "upload" messages into ANSIED.
-
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- -- Special Keys --
-
- -[ Cursor Movement ]----------- -[ Editing ]--------------
-
- Ctrl-E Cursor Up One Line Ctrl-H Backspace
- Ctrl-X Cursor Down One Line Ctrl-G Delete Character
- Ctrl-S Cursor Left Ctrl-Y Delete Line
- Ctrl-D Cursor Right
- Ctrl-A Word Left -[ Scrolling ]-----
- Ctrl-F Word Right
- Ctrl-W Start of Line (Home) Ctrl-R Page Up
- Ctrl-Z End of Line (End) Ctrl-C Page Down
-
-
- -[ Main Menu Functions ]------------------------
-
- Ctrl-N Help Ctrl-O Reflow Text
- Ctrl-P Repaint Screen Ctrl-K End Message
- Ctrl-B Justify Text
- Ctrl-V Toggle Ins/Ovw
-
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- -- Main Menu Commands --
-
- Help What you are reading now. CTRL-X or CTRL-K quits.
-
- End Quits the message. You can save or abort the message, or you
- can continue entering the text (in case you hit this by
- accident).
-
- Block Del Deletes a block of lines. Move the cursor to the top of the
- block you want to delete, bring up the main menu (ESC twice) and
- select 'B.' Then move the cursor to the end of the block and
- hit RETURN. This will remove all lines within the block. ESC at
- any time aborts the block delete.
-
- Justify Right justifies the entire message to the left and right
- margins. Justification will add "soft spaces" on the screen
- (which look like '·'). These will become "real" spaces in the
- message when you save it.
-
- Reflow Reflows the text in the message to remove the choppiness of
- lines. Reflow won't bother paragraph starts or quoted text.
-
- Ins/Ovw Toggles INSert/OVerWrite mode on the editor. In INSert mode,
- text inserted in the middle of a line will move the rest of the
- line to the right. In OVerWrite mode, text entered replaces
- that at the current cursor position. Words will wrap either way.
-
- Paint Repaints the current screen. This shows you exactly what is
- in your message. Use this when line noise garbles your display.
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