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This is the first line. This is the second line. This is the third line.
Here's the set of lines repacked to be an indented block of text:
This is the first line.
This is the second line.
This is the third line.
The first repack was done by pressing CTRL A with the cursor on the first
line. Then, CTRL A on the last line. The block gets copied and repacked in a
buffer, the original block removed, and the new "repacked" block inserted in
it's place. The block buffer retains a copy of the last block buffered.
The second repack was done with the margins reset to 15 left and 40 right. If
you try this last one yourself, you will notice that the margin markers will
cover up some of the text when you reenter edit mode (normal). Just go ahead
and define the block with CTRL A's. Then reset the margins after the repack.
CTRL C (copy a block)
This function copies a block of text into the block buffer.
CTRL M (merge or insert a block)
Inserts the text from the block buffer into the document at the cursor line.
Text from the cursor line on is moved forward in the document to make room
for the merger.
CTRL R (remove a block)
Removes a block of text from the document and closes up the gap. The removed
block is copied into the block buffer. This function can be used to delete
huge portions of text, or to "pick up" a piece of the document, relocate and
merge it elsewhere with a subsequent CTRL M.
CTRL R can also be used to buffer a chunk of your document so that you can
load another one and merge the buffered text into it. Here's how:
Gobble up the portion of your document you DON'T want with CTRL R. Last,
gobble the text you WANT. This will leave you with a blank workspace, and
the desired text in the block buffer. Now, load the file you want to merge
the text into, and insert the buffered text with CTRL M.
Sounds like the long way around, but if you clear your workspace from the
menu, you also clear the block buffer. So, CTRL R will give you a way to do
it. You can also merge text with the load routine (see that section).
CTRL J (justify lines in block)
Allows you to right-justify the lines in a block of text. Extra spaces are
inserted between words until the last character in the line rests one space
to the left of the right margin. The printing routine will also right-justify
text, but it operates on the entire document. CTRL J allows you to justify
smaller parts of it only, if that is what you wish to do. An example is this
paragraph, and the next one:
This is an indented block of text
aligned on the screen with a right
margin of 40...then it was right
justified, and the original margins
restored. Note the "blocked" effect
when you print these paragraphs.
CTRL S (set block underlining)
You can define any text to be underlined by typing it in reverse video (more
on this later). CTRL S will convert an entire block to a reverse video block.
When the editor's printing routine comes across this text, it will be sent to
the printer as underlined text (as long as the printer has that capability).
This function, and CTRL K, will allow you to define less than a full line of
text as part of the block. The text does not get copied into the buffer.
Also, CTRL S will not underline spaces at the end of a line, and will ignore
blank lines.
CTRL K (kill block underlining)
Kills any reverse video in a block of text. Sometimes you may load a file and
find it full of reverse video text (nulls added to a file by a BBS can cause
this to happen. More on this later). When that happens, this function will
allow you to correct it very quickly.
CTRL V (view the block buffer)
Allows you to see what's in the block buffer. Will not function if the buffer
is empty.
CTRL Z (zero block buffer)
Allows you to zero the block buffer. You may want to do this if you run out
of memory (and you have text in the block buffer) and you need to free up
some extra room for the rest of your document. As you may have guessed, the
block buffer is allocated from part of the "free" text buffer.
NOTE: If your document is quite big, and you attempt to align, copy or merge
a large part of it, nothing may happen. This will occur if the block is too
big to fit into the buffer (memory for the buffer will be small in a case
like this). Also, any block function that writes to the block buffer will
erase the previous contents of the buffer. However, CTRL D and CTRL I don't
write to the buffer, so they can be used when you want to preserve the