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APPENDIX B
REVIEW MODE COMMANDS

This same information can be retrieved directly from within Review Mode if
you press F1.  You can also request this information from the help submenu on
the voice control panel.  Regardless of how you asked for the help
information you will be presented with several screens of information.  You
can press Page Down for the next screen, Page Up for the previous or Escape
to quit.  Pressing the space bar will reread the current screen.

STANDARD WINDOW COMMANDS

F2 - Toggles between full-screen and currently selected window.

F3 - Prompts for the standard window number (0-9) to switch to.  This window
will then be the currently selected window until another is selected.

ALT-F3 - Prompts for the window to switch to like F3 but also makes sure all
other windows which are not float are set to neutral.

F4 - Prompts for the window coordinates of the selected window.

F5 - Sets the top line and left column of the selected window to the review
cursor position.

F6 - Sets the bottom line and right column of the selected window to the
review cursor position.

F7 - Rotors the status of the current window between Silent, Speak, Float and
Neutral.

ALT-F7 - Pops up a box which allows you to setup specific information for the
currently selected window.  You can setup the status, window foreground and
background colors, window to chain read, if it should speak and spell, light
bar status and finally the lightbar foreground and background colors.

F8 - Speaks the current window status and coordinates.  This will also speak
the currently selected hyperactive window status and coordinates.

ALT-F8 - Speaks the status and coordinates of all ten windows.

F9 - Speaks the contents of the current window.

F10 - Prompts for the coordinates of a dynamic (temporary) window and reads
it.

HYPERACTIVE WINDOW COMMANDS

SHIFT-F3 - Prompts for the hyperactive window (A-E) to switch to.  This
window will then be the currently selected hyperactive window until another
is selected.

SHIFT-F4 - Prompts for the window coordinates of the currently selected
hyperactive window.

SHIFT-F5 - Sets the top line and left column of the selected hyperactive
window to the review cursor position.

SHIFT-F6 - Sets the bottom line and right column of the selected hyperactive
window to the review cursor position.

SHIFT-F7 - Pops up a box which allows you to setup specific information for
the currently selected hyperactive window.  You can setup the status, whether
the hyperactive window should interrupt the speech when it has triggered,
what it should trigger on and what the three possible commands should do when
the hyperactive window triggers.

SHIFT-F8 - Speaks the status and coordinates of all five hyperactive windows.

CURSORING COMMANDS

Left Arrow - Moves the cursor to the previous character and reads it.

H - Moves the cursor to the previous character and reads it.

Right Arrow - Moves the cursor to the next character and reads it.

U - Moves the cursor to the next character and reads it.

Up Arrow - Moves the cursor up one line.  By default, Vocal-Eyes will read
the new line.  However, using the 'V' command, you can instruct Vocal-Eyes to
read the new character or word instead.

K - Moves the cursor up one line.  By default, Vocal-Eyes will read the new
line.  However, using the 'V' command, you can instruct Vocal-Eyes to read
the new character or word instead.

Down Arrow - Moves the cursor down one line.  By default, Vocal-Eyes will
read the new line.  However, using the 'V' command, you can instruct
Vocal-Eyes to read the new character or word instead.

J - Moves the cursor down one line.  By default, Vocal-Eyes will read the new
line.  However, using the 'V' command, you can instruct Vocal-Eyes to read
the new character or word instead.

CTRL-Left Arrow - Moves the cursor to the previous word and reads it.

CTRL-Right Arrow - Moves the cursor to the next word and reads it.

CTRL-Up Arrow - Moves the cursor to the top left of the current window.  (101
keyboards only)

CTRL-PAGEUP - Moves the cursor to the top left of the current window.

= - (Equal sign) Moves the cursor to the top left of the current window.

CTRL-Down Arrow - Moves the cursor to the first column of the last line in
the current window.  (101 keyboards only)

CTRL-PAGEDOWN - Moves the cursor to the first column of the last line in the
current window.

' - (Apostrophe) Moves the cursor to the first column of the last line in the
current window.

ALT-Left Arrow - Moves the cursor to the first character of the current line
in the current window and reads it.  (101 keyboards only)

PAGEUP - Moves the cursor to the first character of the current line in the
current window and reads it.

[ - (Left bracket) Moves the cursor to the first character of the current
line in the current window and reads it.

ALT-Right Arrow - Moves the cursor one character past the last printable
character of the current line in the current window and reads it.  (101
keyboards only)

PAGEDOWN - Moves the cursor one character past the last printable character
of the current line in the current window and reads it.

] - (Right bracket) Moves the cursor one character past the last printable
character of the current line in the current window and reads it.

ENTER - Moves the cursor to the first column of the next line within the
current window and reads the new line.

HOME - Moves the cursor to the previous sentence and reads it.

END - Moves the cursor to the next sentence and reads it.

CTRL-HOME - Moves the cursor to the previous paragraph and reads it.

CTRL-END - Moves the cursor to the next paragraph and reads it.

FIND COMMANDS

F - Prompts for a pattern to search for in the current selected window.  You
can set the attributes for each character by pressing F1.  You will then be
prompted for the foreground and background colors.  Each character typed
after these settings will be the selected attribute until it has been changed
by pressing F1 again.  If you end the pattern with the ENTER key the search
will start at the upper left corner of the currently selected window and
proceed to the end of the window.  If you press the > (greater than key), the
search will start at the cursor position and proceed to the end of the
window.  If you press < (less than) instead, the search will start at the
cursor position and go to the top of the window.  You can use the ? (question
mark) to match any character.  If you wish to search for a < (less than), >
(greater than), ? (question mark) or ` (grave accent), you must proceed the
character by a ` (grave accent).

> - (greater than)  Starts searching for the last specified pattern from the
next cursor position to the end of the window.

< - (less than)  Starts searching for the last specified pattern from the
previous cursor position to the beginning of the window.

ATTRIBUTE COMMANDS

A - Takes the current attribute under the cursor and assigns it to the user
attribute.  If you follow this command immediately by F1, you will be
prompted for the foreground and background colors.

B - Takes the current attribute under the cursor and assigns it to the Light
bar attribute.  If you follow this command immediately by F1, you will be
prompted for the foreground and background colors.

S - Search toward the bottom of the screen for the first character with a
different attribute than the attribute under the cursor.  If found, the
cursor will be positioned on the new character.  The new character and color
will be announced.

W - Takes the current attribute under the cursor and assigns it to the
current window color.  If you follow this command immediately by F1, you will
be prompted for the foreground and background colors.

MARKER COMMANDS

M - Prompts for the marker number to set at the cursor position.

G - Prompts for the marker to jump to.  Once specified, the cursor will be
moved to the requested marker.

BLOCK COMMANDS

P - Places a mark at the cursor position for later block copying.  You must
place a mark before you can copy a block.  You can be at the top left of the
block or the bottom right.

R - Replace the data in the block buffer with the specified information.
Copies all data in a window fashion from the previous mark to the current
cursor position.  Any existing data in the block buffer will be lost.

T - Adds or tags the specified information to the block buffer.  This works
just like the R Replace command but appends the information to what is
already in the block buffer.

MISCELLANEOUS COMMANDS

SPACE - Reads the current review cursor position.

L - Reads the current line under the cursor.

V - Toggles between character, word or line.  By default when you press the
up or down arrows, Vocal-Eyes will read the new line.  Using this toggle, you
can instruct Vocal-Eyes to read the new character or word instead.

C - Allows you to send data directly to your synthesizer.

` - (grave accent) Allows the next command typed not to be checked as a
review mode command.  If you have a hot key defined as one of the review mode
commands, you can use this key to access your hot key.

F1 - Prints these help screens.

EXITING COMMANDS

ESCAPE - Exits review mode.  You could also use your fast review mode key or
the user definable hot key.

ALT-ESCAPE - Exits review mode and attempts to route the video cursor to the
position of the review cursor.  (101 keyboards only)

ALT-X - Exits review mode and attempts to route the video cursor to the
position of the review cursor.