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Other - General management
The "Other" menu contains the following items:
Help [F1] - invoke the help feature.
(Mouse: Place the mouse cursor to the "Hit <F1> for help" line at the
bottom of the screen and press the left button.)
Text/hex [F2] - toggle between text and hex modes.
Kbd buffer on/off [Shift-F4] - toggle keyboard buffer on/off
(Mouse: Place the mouse cursor onto the buffer indicator "B" in the
editor's status line and press the left button.) When you press a key,
the corresponding character is first stored in the so-called keyboard
buffer and only then is it transferred to the computer memory. This is
very convenient, since you can type characters even while the processor
unit is busy processing information. However, if you are too fast in
typing characters, the keyboard buffer gets overfilled, and you will be
notified of this with a beep signal. It is not very convenient, for
example, when you are editing a file in hexadecimal mode). To cope with
such cases you can turn OFF the keyboard buffer. The letter "B" in the
editor's status line indicates that the keyboard buffer is ON.
DOS screen [Ctrl-O] - invoke the DOS screen.
Insert/replace [Ins] - togle between insert/replace modes.
(You can also toggle the mode by placing the mouse cursor onto the
indicator of Insert/Replace mode in the editor's status line and
pressing the left button.)
When in insert mode, you can insert a new character at the position the
cursor points to, the line to the right of the cursor shifting one
position to the right. If the editor is in this mode, the status line
at the top of the screen displays the indicator of Insert mode (letter
"I") between indicators of the case-sensitive search (letter "M") and
the keyboard buffer (letter "B"). When in replace mode, the character
"I" in the status line is replaced with the character "R" (replace). In
Replace mode a new character is written instead of an "old" one. This
mode is, for example, convenient if you are filling out an already
framed table and do not want to disturb the frame.
EOL/EOF marks on/off [Ctrl-F4] - switch on/off the EOL/EOF symbols.
Main menu [Esc] - quit the editor (if the file has
not been modified).
Save and exit [Esc] - quit the editor (if you modified
the file).
If you made some changes in the file the following query panel appears
on the screen:
+------------------------------------------+
| Quitting the editor |
+------------------------------------------+
| Save the latest changes? |
| Save Don't save Back to the editor |
+------------------------------------------+
Select the desired item.
It should be noted that CP's built-in editor does not create the
backup (.bak) copies of the files.
Calculate line number [Alt-F5] - calculate the number of the current
line.
Copying paragraphs
First mark the paragragh you would like to copy by pressing [F3] at the
start and at the end of the string to be copied. To move the marked text to
another file press the keys [Shift-F3] to pop up a panel for entering the
target file name. Type in the name of the file where you want to send the
marked text.
If the file with the same name already exists another panel will pop
up:
+-------------------------------+
| File D:\A.A already exists. |
| Overwrite Skip Merge |
+-------------------------------+
Select one of the options:
"Overwrite" - the file with the specified name will be overwritten,
"Skip" - the existing file will be preserved,
"Move" - the marked file will be added to the existing one.