Originally posted by NickFitz
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Ctrl-K-Y deleted a block didn't it?
Ctrl-K-B to mark the start, Ctrl-K-K to mark the end, Ctrl-K-Y to delete.
"B" and "K" are the beginning and end of the word "BLOCK", which explains them; and the "Y" stood for "YANK" (as in pull, not as in Merkin).
Ctrl-K-B to mark the start, Ctrl-K-K to mark the end, Ctrl-K-Y to delete.
"B" and "K" are the beginning and end of the word "BLOCK", which explains them; and the "Y" stood for "YANK" (as in pull, not as in Merkin).
Navigation was simple.
^A left word. ^S left char. ^D right char. ^F right word.
^W scroll up line. ^E move cursor up line. ^R up page. ^Z scroll down line. ^X down line. ^C down page.
^Q was the Quick commands. So where ^R was up a page, ^Q R is top of document. ^C down a page so ^Q C is bottom of document.
^K was indeed he block commands. Also, ^K 0..9 places a marker, ^Q 0..n to go to a marker.
^O is the on/off commands for help, toolbars, rulers, etc.
But most important of all was that you could configure it for "hard tabs" or "soft tabs" and it was that which made it a good source code editor, especially for COBOL. You could set up tab marks for columns 7, 8, 12 and a right margin at 62 wrapping at 12.
It was also good for rescuing corrupt files because EVERY ANSI character was represented visually (except ^Z, of course).
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