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
) If you press y during an insertion, the
underlined
(
A
A
underline cursor becomes an underlined # ( # ).
Graphs and editors sometimes display additional cursors, which
are described in other chapters.
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
executed
No entry; the maximum characters are
entered at a prompt or memory is full
Operating the TI-82 STATS 1-5
is
SOLVE