If there is a (primary) selection, adjacent to the cursor in the window, the new text will replace the selected text. This position is marked by a caret shaped cursor when the mouse is outside of the destination window. As soon as the button is released, the contents of this selection will be copied to the insert position of the window where the mouse was last clicked (the destination window). The middle mouse button can be used to make an additional selection (called the secondary selection). Note that the interpretation of rectangular selections by Fill Paragraph is slightly different from that of other commands, the section titled "Shifting and Filling" has details.
Operations on rectangular selections automatically fill in tabs and spaces to maintain alignment of text within and to the right of the selection. Rectangular selections can be used in any context that normal selections can be used, including cutting and pasting, filling, shifting, dragging, and searching. To select a rectangle or column of text, hold the Ctrl key while dragging the mouse. To delete the selected text, press delete or backspace. After releasing the mouse button, you can still adjust a selection by holding down the shift key and dragging on either end of the selection. Quadruple clicking selects the whole file.
Similarly, you can select a whole line or a number of lines by triple clicking or triple clicking and dragging. Double clicking and then dragging the mouse will select a number of words. To select a whole word, double click (click twice quickly in succession). To select text for copying, deleting, or replacing, press the left mouse button with the pointer at one end of the text you want to select, and drag it to the other end. Rectangular selections are only useful with non-proportional (fixed spacing) fonts. Selections can cover either a simple range of text between two points in the file, or they can cover a rectangular area of the file. NEdit has two general types of selections, primary (highlighted text), and secondary (underlined text). _Note: Users who have set their keyboard focus mode to "pointer" should set "Popups Under Pointer" in the Default Settings menu to avoid the additional step of moving the mouse into the dialog. See the section called "Keyboard Shortcuts" for more details. (how much of the filename you need to type depends on the other files in the directory). To open a file named "whole_earth.c", type: For example, to replace the string "thing" with "things" type: The Cancel or Dismiss button can be activated by pressing escape. This button can be activated by pressing Return or Enter. One of the buttons in a dialog is usually drawn with a thick, indented, outline. To move the keyboard focus around a dialog, use the tab and arrow keys. NEdit does not change the file you are editing until you tell it to Save.Īs you become more familiar with NEdit, substitute the control and function keys shown on the right side of the menus for pulling down menus with the mouse.ĭialogs are also streamlined so you can enter information quickly and without using the mouse*.
If you get into trouble, the Undo command in the Edit menu can reverse any modifications that you make. Programmers should also read the introductory section under the "Features for Programming" section: Help sections of interest to new users are listed under the "Basic Operation" heading in the top-level Help menu: For users of older style Unix editors, welcome to the world of mouse-based editing! NEdit provides all of the standard menu, dialog, editing, and mouse support, as well as all of the standard shortcuts to which the users of modern GUI based environments are accustomed.
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Users of Macintosh and MS Windows based text editors should find NEdit a familiar and comfortable environment. NEdit is a standard GUI (Graphical User Interface) style text editor for programs and plain-text files.