Starting A Text Editor Session - Texas Instruments TI-89 Manual Book

Starting a Text Editor Session

Starting a New
Session
Note: Your session is saved
automatically as you type.
You do not need to save a
session manually before
leaving the Text Editor,
starting a new session, or
opening a previous one.
Each time you start the Text Editor, you can start a new text
session, resume the current session (the session that was
displayed the last time you used the Text Editor), or open a
previous session.
1. Press O and then select
.
8:Text Editor
2. Select .
3:New
The dialog box is
NEW
displayed.
3. Specify a folder and text
variable that you want to
use to store the new
session.
Item Description
Automatically set as
Type
Folder Shows the folder in which the text variable will be
stored. For information about folders, refer to
Chapter 5.
To use a different folder, press B to display a menu
of existing folders. Then select a folder.
Type a variable name.
Variable
If you specify a variable that already exists, an error
message will be displayed when you press ¸.
When you press N or ¸ to acknowledge the
error, the
4. Press ¸ (after typing in an input box such as
must press ¸ twice) to display an empty Text Editor screen.
A colon marks the
beginning of a
paragraph.
The blinking cursor
shows where typed
text will appear.
You can now use the Text Editor as described in the remaining
sections of this chapter.
and cannot be changed.
Text
dialog box is redisplayed.
NEW
Chapter 18: Text Editor
, you
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