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and down arrow keys, use CTRL—O, and CTRL—K instead.) The
position of the flashing cursor, like that of the bar cursor,
determines where your commands will take effect. You can hold
the keys down (or hold down your REPT key if you have one) to
move the flashing cursor more quickly.
Now let’s use some editing commands. First let’s change
the structure of the first sentence. Type CTRL—G and press
the left arrow key to GOTO the beginning of your paragraph.
With the cursor on the first “A”, begin typing:
It is easy to
and press the space bar. This illustrates that you are always
ready to insert text unless you are specifically executing
another editor command.
Now move the flashing cursor forward to the “i” in “add-
ing” and press CTRL—D three times (to DELETE the “ing”). Move
to the space after the word “outline” and press CTRL—D eight
times. Deleting the phrase “is easy” completes your revision
of the first sentence. Press the right arrow key once and
watch ThinkTank adjust your text for you (Figure 4—8). (If
your computer displays both upper— and lowercase characters,
you may want to delete the “A” in “Adding” and insert an "a"
in its place.)
Suppose you want to move “The built—in editor is a joy to
use” to the end of the paragraph. You could DELETE it and
retype it, but it’s easier to use the SELECT command, which al-
lows you to work with a whole block of text at a time. First
you have to identify- the block by selecting it. Move the
flashing cursor to the “T” at the beginning of this sentence.
Then type CTRL—S to START the selection. In the Command Area,
ThinkTank announces that you’re in SELECT mode.
Once you’ve started a selection, you move the flashing
cursor to define it. Press the right arrow key to move it for-
ward and watch how ThinkTank highlights your selection. Stop
when the cursor is flashing on the space before the “Y” in
“You hardly”, the first character you do not want to select
(Figure 4—9). Now press CTRL—S to FINISH the selection. It
will no longer follow the flashing cursor.
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