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The Text menu

The Text menu

The Text menu contains those operations on a file that alter selected fragments of text. All operations in the text menu operate on the selection, on a fragment-by-fragment, then line-by-line basis. If there is no selection, a default scope will be selected.

ENTRIES IN THE TEXT MENU

The following operations have a default scope of one word.
To lower case, Alt Shift L
Convert all letters, including ones in the upper ISO-Latin-1 set, to lower case.
  • Functions involving the Upper/lower case distinction may not work correctly for all 8 bit character sets (reversed for Cyrillic koi set, not at all for ISO-Latin-5).
To upper case, Alt Shift U
Convert to upper case.
Capitalize, Alt Shift C
Capitalize all letters that are not preceded by a letter.

The following operations have a default scope of one line.
Shift left, Ctrl J
Shift the selected lines left over one tab stop.
Shift right, Ctrl K
Shift right over one tab stop.
Shift left one, Alt J
Shift the selected lines left by one space character.
Shift right one, Alt K
Shift right by one space character.
Indent to..., Alt Shift D
Pops up a panel in which you enter a column number. All selected lines will be indented to exactly that column (a ragged left margin will be made straight).

Format Paragraph, Alt Shift P
Format a paragraph, which is from the cursor until the first empty line, where the `indent characters' specified in the language options panel are considered `blank'. If so selected in the editor options panel, the paragraph will be aligned to the right margin as set on the text ruler.

The default scope of format paragraph is one paragraph, starting at the cursor position. Multiple paragraphs may also be formatted at once (just select the paragraphs to be formatted), but this feature is a bit problematic with different levels of indentation.

The following operations have default scope: south-east quadrant.
Sort lines, Alt Shift O
Sorts the selection fragment-by-fragment, line-by-line.
Reverse lines, Alt Shift R
Reverses the lines in the selected fragments.

The following operations have default scope: whole text.
Compress tabs, Alt Shift T
Convert as many sequences of space characters as possible to true tabs.
Expand tabs, Alt Shift E
Expand true tabs to sequences of spaces.
Kill trailing blanks, Alt Shift K
Remove any space or tab characters at the end of selected lines.
Convert newlines..., Alt Shift N
Pops up a box that offers a choice between MS-DOS, Macintosh and UNIX style newlines. The selected text is then converted to that type.

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