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Entering Commands
To choose popup menu items
To choose popup menu items
Move the mouse pointer to the area whose popup menu you wish to
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access. (If a popup menu is available, the mouse pointer changes
from an arrow to a hand.)
Press and hold the select mouse button.
2
After the popup menu appears (while continuing to hold down the
3
mouse button), move the mouse pointer to the desired menu item.
Release the mouse button to select the menu choice.
4
If you decide not to select a menu item, simply continue to hold the mouse
button down, move the mouse pointer off of the menu, and release the mouse
button.
To place values into the entry buffer using the
keyboard
Position the mouse pointer within the text entry area. (An "I-beam"
1
cursor will appear.)
Enter the text using the keyboard.
2
To clear the entry buffer text area from beginning until end, press the
<Ctrl>u key combination.
To copy-and-paste to the entry buffer
•
To copy and paste a discrete text string as determined by the
interface, position the mouse pointer over the text to copy and click
the paste mouse button.
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To specify the exact text to copy to the entry buffer: press and hold
the paste mouse button; drag the mouse pointer to highlight the text
to copy-and-paste; release the paste mouse button.
You can copy-and-paste from the display area, the status line, and from the
command line entry area.
When you position the pointer and click the mouse button, the interface
expands the highlight to include the most complete text string it considers to
be discrete. Discrete here means that the interface will stop expanding the
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