PS TEXT EDIT and PS TEXT FORMAT User's Guide

Going to the HOME Location
Creating a Simple Document
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Going to the HOME
Location
Use the HOME key to move the cursor to the top left corner of the screen.
Moving Forward and
Backward
You can move forward or backward with the SPACE bar and the BACKSPACE
key or with the arrow keys. The SPACE bar moves the cursor to the right
by inserting a blank character each time you press it. You continue to insert
blanks as long as you press on the SPACE bar. Pressing the SPACE bar to
move the cursor over the characters you have already typed erases the
characters by replacing them with blanks.
The BACKSPACE key moves the same way as the SPACE bar, but in the
opposite direction. Pressing the BACKSPACE key over the characters you
have already typed does not erase them.
Moving Right, Left, Up,
and Down
Press an arrow key once to move the cursor one column (the space of one
character) to the right or left, or one line up or down. If you press and hold
the key, the cursor continues to move in the direction the arrow points for
as long as you press on the key. When you reach the edge of the screen by
holding down the key, the cursor wraps around to the opposite edge of the
screen. The cursor moves over the letters you have typed; it does not
change the text in any way.
Returning to
Start a New Line
Press RETURN to move the cursor to the far left column of the next line. If
you have a Tandem 6530 terminal, you may notice that the cursor is a bit
sluggish when you press the RETURN key. The sluggishness is due to a
feature called the RETURN function, which is discussed in Sections 3 and 4.
There is another way to return the cursor to start a new line: Press the TAB
key. Try it. Now press the BACKTAB key. BACKTAB is a shifted TAB key on
Tandem terminals. The cursor moves to the far left column of the same line
the cursor is already in. If you press BACKTAB again, the cursor moves up to
the previous line. Note that the TAB and BACKTAB terminal keys do not
move to any tab stops as you might expect; you use TEDIT functions,
discussed later, to do that.