PS TEXT EDIT Reference Manual

Terminals and TEDIT
Introduction to TEDIT
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Text commands and text items persist in TEDIT. Persist means they remain
active until you cancel them or replace them with another text command or
text item. For example, if you use the command structure SENTENCE
ALIGN, SENTENCE persists. After you align the sentence, SENTENCE
persists, so you can enter DELETE by itself to remove a sentence or COPY
to duplicate a sentence. The first word in the command structure persists.
Thus, if you enter ALIGN SENTENCE, ALIGN persists.
Using TEDIT
Commands
You use TEDIT commands to:
Change text Number lines
Copy or move text Provide information
Format text Provide utility services
Manage TEDIT profiles Scroll text
Manipulate windows Search for and replace text
Move the cursor
Many TEDIT commands are assigned to the function keys of your terminal.
To use these commands in TEDIT, find the commands on the template
supplied with TEDIT and press the appropriate function keys.
You can use all TEDIT commands, including the ones not assigned to
function keys, by pressing the *C function key and typing them on the
command line at the top of the screen. Press the *C function key again to
carry out the command.
Terminals and TEDIT To use TEDIT, you must have either a Tandem terminal or an IBM 3270
Information Display system connected to your Tandem processor. (TEDIT
is not supported on a Tandem 6510 terminal.)
You should have a template; otherwise, you will not know which key is
assigned to *C or how to exit.
See appendixes A and B of this reference manual for information about
using specific terminals.