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What you enter is inserted into the buffer at the cursor position. Return to the main menu by
pressing the ESC key or by entering CTRL-C. (Note that CTRL-C deletes all the text you
inserted.)
Deleting and Moving Text
The PICE screen editor uses the same control characters as the line editor. To delete a character
or line, use the CTRL-A, CTRL-F, CTRL-X, or CTRL-Z key.
To delete or move a block of text, use the screen editor temporary buffer. First delimit the text
that you want loaded into the temporary buffer by moving the cursor to the start of the block
and pressing the B key. Pressing the B key sets the first delimiter for the temporary buffer and
displays the buffer menu as shown in the following example:
B u f f e r
The first delimited character appears as an at sign (@).
Pressing the D key deletes the delimited text from the screen and copies it into the temporary
buffer. Pressing the B key copies the delimited text into the buffer without deleting it from the
screen. The system editor then returns you to the main menu.
To move the deleted or copied text elsewhere in the edited text, first move the cursor to the
desired position. Then press G (for Get) and either the ESC key or the RETURN (or, for IBM
PC hosts, Enter) key.
Viewing Text
The View command is useful when the file you are editing is longer than one screen. Pressing
the V key rewrites the screen display with the line containing the cursor in the middle of the
screen (unless the cursor is so near the beginning or end of the text that the line cannot be
centered).
Overwriting Text
To begin overwriting text, position the cursor and press the X key. The bottom line now reads
as follows:
[ e x c h a n g e !
When you enter a character, it replaces the character at the cursor position, and the cursor
moves to the next position. Return to the main menu by pressing the ESC key or by entering
CTRL-C. (Note that CTRL-C deletes all the changes you made.)
Editing External Files
With the screen editor you can edit development system files without returning to the PICE
command line. The Editors entry in the PICE™ System Reference Manual describes external
file editing in detail.
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