Display Cursors - Texas Instruments TI-83 Manual Book

Display Cursors

In most cases, the appearance of the cursor indicates what will happen
when you press the next key or select the next menu item to be pasted
as a character.
Cursor Appearance
Entry Solid rectangle
$
Insert Underline
__
Second Reverse arrow
Þ
Alpha Reverse A
Ø
Full Checkerboard
rectangle
#
If you press ƒ during an insertion, the cursor becomes an underlined
). If you press y during an insertion, the underlined cursor becomes
(
A
A
an underlined # (#).
Graphs and editors sometimes display additional cursors, which are
described in other chapters.
TI-83 Plus Operating the TI-83 Plus Silver Edition
Effect of Next Keystroke
A character is entered at the cursor; any
existing character is overwritten
A character is inserted in front of the cursor
location
A 2nd character (yellow on the keyboard) is
entered or a 2nd operation is executed
An alpha character (green on the keyboard)
is entered or
SOLVE
No entry; the maximum characters are
entered at a prompt or memory is full
is executed
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