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left
, right
, up
, down
¶These functions are pre-bound to the cursor keys and move the cursor left, right, up or down by one line.
wordleft
, wordright
¶These functions are pre-bound to Ctrl-Left and Ctrl-Right and move the cursor to the beginning of the previous or the beginning of the next word respectively.
pgup
, pgdn
¶These functions are pre-bound to the PgUp and PgDn (or on some Unix boxes, Prev and Next) keys and scroll the text up or down by one page and place the cursor accordingly.
gobol
, goeol
¶These functions are pre-bound to the HOME and END keys and move the cursor to the beginning or end of the current line.
top
, bottom
¶These functions are pre-bound to the Ctrl-PgUp and Ctrl-PgDn keys and move the cursor to the top or bottom line of the current screen.
first
, last
¶These functions are pre-bound to the Ctrl-Home and Ctrl-End keys and move the cursor to the very first or very last line of the mail that is currently being edited.
tab
, pre-bound to: Tab ¶This function moves the cursor to the next tabulator position by inserting
whitespace characters (not tabulator characters!) into the mail. The distance
between tabulator postitions can be adjusted with the TabSize
keyword
in the configuration file (see The TabSize
Keyword).
newline
, pre-bound to: Enter, RETThis function inserts a hard carriage return and places the cursor to the beginning of the next line. Note: Normally, hard carriage returns are only inserted as paragraph delimiters or when posting formatted tables in fidonet. For normal message text, you should not press Enter near the end of the line, but you should type a continous text (and leave the wrapping to MsgEd TE) and only press Enter once or twice at the end of a paragraph. This will allow the receivers of your message to format the message in a way that nicely fits their screen widths (not everybody is using 80 column terminals!).