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The Edit menu

The Edit menu

The Edit menu contains those operations that involve manipulation or transfer of text in the sense of copying and deletion, undo and repeat.

ENTRIES IN THE EDIT MENU

Undo, Alt U
Undo the last operation performed. This is a single-stage undo function.

Cut, Alt X
Copy the selected text into the cut buffer and delete it.
Copy, Alt C
Copy the selected text into the cut buffer. If multiple fragments are selected, the resulting cut buffer will be accordingly `fragmented'.
Paste, Alt V
Paste the contents of the cut buffer into the text as a single continuous fragment; the inserted text is selected.

Delete, Alt Shift X
Delete the selected text. In replace mode, the text is not deleted, but replaced by white space.
Overlay, Alt Shift V
Paste the cut buffer into the text, left-aligning the inserted text fragment-by-fragment, line-by-line, at the column position of the cursor. This can be used, e.g., to put two narrowly formatted paragraphs, or columns of numerical data next to eachother. In replace mode, the text is not inserted, but overwritten line by line (e.g. to replace a column of numbers).

Erase line, Ctrl U
Erase the current line, or erase an input field in a panel. Generates indentation like the Return key does; see Auto indent (Options menu, Alt Shift I).
Delete line, Alt D
Delete the current line.
Join lines, Alt Shift J
Join the current line to the next one, putting one blank character in between, after removing the indentation of the next line, including non-blank indentation characers as defined in the language options panel.

Repeat dribble, Ctrl R, Ctrl .
Repeat the last sequence of cursor/typing operations applied to a single line.
  • If there is a multi-fragment selection or a single selection of at least 2 full lines, the dribble is applied to each line of each fragment in the selection.
Store dribble, Ctrl T
Store the current dribble (see above). A panel pops up where you can choose to store the last sequence of cursor/typing operations as dribble 1, 2 or 3.
Do dribble 1, 2, 3, Alt 1, 2, 3
Repeat stored dribble 1, 2, 3, as in repeat dribble.

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