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5.3.3 Editor Functions dealing with Text Blocks

These functions provide cut’n’paste functionality:

Function: anchor, pre-bound to: Alt-A

This drops an anchor at the current cursor position. You have to drop two anchors at different places, then the text between the two anchors will be highlighted and treated as a selected text block.

Function: cut, pre-bound to: Alt-C

This will cut the currently selected text block (use anchor to select a text block), i.E., it will delete all selected characters and store them in an internal clipboard. Text that previously was stored in the clipboard will of course be discarded.

Function: paste, pre-bound to: Alt-P

This will paste (insert) the text block from the clipboard (i.E. the last text that has been cut with the cut function) at the current cursor position.

Function: unblock, pre-bound to: Alt-U

Any anchors that have been dropped with the anchor function will be removed, that is, any previously highlighted text will again be displayed normally.