Entering and editing text

Entering text

Replacing and inserting text

The status line indicates which mode the editor is in.  When the editor is in replace mode, the cursor appears as a solid block, one character width in size.  Text overlaid by this block will be replaced by any new text that you type.  When the editor is in insert mode, the cursor appears as a thin vertical line.  Any new text that you type is inserted into the document at the cursor position, and existing text after the cursor is shifted.

Deleting text

There are several ways to delete text.

Moving the cursor

There are several way to position the cursor in the document, for example:

Inserting a blank line

Splitting and joining lines of text

To split a line:

To join two lines, do one of the following:

Note:  The availability of the menu items indicated above depends on the application implementing the editor.  The keyboard and mouse operations indicated are effective only in certain editor profiles.