menus: accelerators Close Alt+F4 Copy Control+C Cut Control+X Delete Delete key Find/Change Control+F Overstrike Insert key Paste Control+V Print Control+P Select All Control+/ Undo Control+Z If your keyboard does not have an Alt key, ask your system administrator to identify the corresponding key. Note that not all vendors' keyboards supply these keys. Please see your local vendor's documentation for alternate key bindings. editing keys control key Alt key Key Action Backspace Deletes the character before the cursor Delete (Remove) Deletes the character following the insertion cursor Control+Delete (Control+Remove) Deletes all the characters from the cursor to the end of the current line Control+Backspace Deletes the previous word Shift+Backspace Deletes characters from the cursor to the beginning of the line control key, used with arrow keys arrow keys cursor movement keys keyboard navigation keys: cursor movement keys: arrow Key Cursor Movement Up Arrow Up one line Down Arrow Down one line Left Arrow Left one character Right Arrow Right one character Control+Right&sigspace;Arrow&sigspace; Right one word Control+Left&sigspace;Arrow Left one word Control+Down&sigspace;Arrow&sigspace; Beginning of the next paragraph Control+Up&sigspace;Arrow Beginning of the previous paragraph Home Beginning of the current line End End of the current line Control+Home Beginning of the document Control+End End of the document Some key combinations may be different on the system you are using. If so, ask your system administrator to identify the corresponding keys. &sigspace; &sigspace; To use Emacs key bindings in Text Editor see . &sigspace; Unix keybindings keybindings: Unix Emacs keybindings Unix key bindings provide a set of extended Emacs keys, such as Control+F (forward character) and Control+N (next line), in Text Editor. To enable Unix key bindings (which are set off by default), do the following: Edit the .Xdefaults file in your home directory by adding this line to the file: #include "/usr/dt/app-defaults/lang/UNIXbindings" Replace lang with the value of your language environment variable. If the .Xdefaults file does not exist, create the file in your home directory. Log out of your current session. Log in and restart Text Editor. &sigspace; When you use Unix key bindings, Text Editor provides alternate menu accelerators for these commands: Command Alternate Menu Accelerator Undo (Control+Z) Control+_ Paste (Control+V) Shift+Insert Find/Change (Control+F)&sigspace; Control+S Print (Control+P) no alternate &sigspace; If you want to modify these menu accelerators, copy the contents of the /usr/dt/app-defaults/lang/UNIXbindings file into your .Xdefaults file, and then make your changes. When Unix key bindings are enabled, the Delete (Remove) key deletes the previous character rather than the character that follows the cursor. menus:File New Clears the Text Editor window. If your document has unsaved changes a dialog box is displayed that enables you to save your work before the window is cleared. Open Displays a dialog box for opening an existing file. Include Displays a dialog box for specifying a file to be inserted into the current document. Save Saves the document to the current file. If Wrap To Fit is set on the Save dialog is displayed. If the current document has not been previously saved, the Save As dialog box is displayed. Save As Displays a dialog box for saving a document to a new file. Copy to File Copies the information you are viewing or editing to a separate file without changing your edit session. In some instances, the Save As command is replaced by the Copy To File command. Print Displays a dialog box for selecting print options and printing a document. Close Closes the Text Editor window and exits Text Editor. menus:Edit Undo Reverses the last cut, paste, clear, delete, replace, include, or format operation Cut Removes the selected text and stores it on the clipboard Copy Copies the selected text and stores it on the clipboard Paste Copies the text from the last cut or copy operation to the current cursor position Clear Replaces the selected text with spaces Delete Deletes the selected text Select All Selects all text in your document Find/Change Opens a dialog box that enables you to search for words or phrases in your document and make changes to occurrences that are found Check Spelling&sigspace; Runs the spell checker on the document menus:Format Settings Displays a dialog box for setting margins and paragraph alignment, and applying format settings to your document Paragraph Applies the settings to the paragraph containing the cursor All Applies the settings to the entire document menus: Options Overstrike Toggles the text entry mode that allows you to type over existing characters. Wrap To Fit Toggles the text entry mode that causes lines to automatically wrap at the edge of the window. If Wrap To Fit is is not set on, you must press Return to end each line. Status Line Toggles the display of a status line at the bottom of the window. The status line reports the line number where the cursor is located, the total number of lines in the document, application messages, and indicates when Overstrike mode is on. It also provides a way to move the cursor to a specific line number. menus:Help Overview Explains how to start Text Editor. Table of Contents &sigspace; Provides an outline of Text Editor help topics. Tasks Provides task instructions for most Text Editor operations. Reference Summarizes Text Editor features, such as menus, dialog boxes, resources, and command-line options. On Item Changes the cursor to a special pointer that you can click on an item in a Text Editor window or dialog box. A description of the item you've clicked is displayed. Using Help Provides help on using Help windows. About Text Editor Displays the version and copyright information for Text Editor. window, Text Editor &sigspace; Menu bar Text Editor provides five menus: File, Edit, Format, Options, and Help. Document window&sigspace; The area where you type the content of your document. Status line Reports the line number where the cursor is located, the total number of lines in the document, application messages, and indicates when Overstrike mode is on. It also provides a way to move the cursor to a specific line number. Enter path or folder name&sigspace; Identifies the path name of the current folder. Filter An asterisk (*) shows all files. You can enter wildcard characters to display only those files that match an extension. For example, *.doc lists only those files with a .doc extension. Files Lists files located in the current folder. Folders Lists folders located in the current folder. You can open a file in the current folder, a subfolder, or a different folder. Enter a file name Displays the file name selected in the Files list. Press Return or click OK to open the file. Or, you can type the name of the file you want to open. OK Opens the file specified in the Enter a file name field. Update Displays a new list of files after changing the filter key or changing to a new folder. Cancel Cancels the Open operation. Help Describes text entry fields, selection lists, and buttons in the dialog box. Enter path or folder name&sigspace; Identifies the path name of the current folder. Filter An asterisk (*) shows all files. You can enter wildcard characters to display only those files that match an extension. For example, *.doc lists only those files with a .doc extension. Files Lists files located in the current folder. Folders Lists folders located in the current folder. Enter file name Field in which you type a new file name for your document. OK Saves the file using the name provided. Update Displays a new list of files after changing the filter key or changing to a new folder. Cancel Cancels the Save As operation. If you use Wrap To Fit, these additional choices appear in the dialog box: Add newline characters to the end of word-wrapped lines. This is the default choice. It adds a newline character to the end of each wrapped line and preserves line breaks exactly as they appear in your document. Do not add newlines. Only line breaks created by Return will be preserved. This option retains the "soft" line breaks inserted by Wrap To Fit. If you reopen the document, the text conforms to the width of the new window. &sigspace; If you use the Wrap To Fit option, the Save dialog box is displayed when you save changes to your document. Line breaks inserted by Wrap To Fit can be handled in two ways: Add newline characters to the end of word-wrapped lines. This is the default choice. It adds a newline character to the end of each wrapped line and preserves line breaks exactly as they appear in your document. Do not add newlines. Only line breaks created by Return will be preserved. This option retains the "soft" line breaks inserted by Wrap To Fit. If you reopen the document, the text conforms to the width of the new window. Yes Saves the current file or displays the Save As dialog box for saving your document No Proceeds with the operation without saving the file. Cancel Cancels the operation Help Describes the Save dialog box The Save dialog is also displayed if you choose a menu command that will result in the loss of your current editing changes. Enter path or folder name&sigspace; Identifies the path name of the current folder. Filter An asterisk (*) shows all files. You can enter wildcard characters to display only those files that match an extension. For example, *.doc lists only those files with a .doc extension. Files Lists files located in the current folder. Folders Lists folders located in the current folder. You can insert a file from the current folder, a subfolder, or a different folder. Enter a file name Displays the file name selected in the Files list. Click OK or press Return to include the file. Or, you can type the name of the file you want to include. OK Inserts the file specified in the Enter file name field at the location of the cursor. Update Displays a new list of files after changing the filter key or changing to a new folder. Cancel Cancels the Include operation. Help Describes text entry fields, selection lists, and buttons in the dialog box. Misspelled Words Lists the misspelled words found in the document. Change To Field in which to type the correctly spelled word. Find Finds the first occurrence of the misspelled word. Find proceeds from the location of the insertion cursor. Change Replaces the highlighted word with the correct spelling. Change All Replaces all occurrences of the misspelled word. Close Closes the dialog box. &sigspace; The Check Spelling command is only available for English. Find Field in which to type a word or phrase that you want to find. Find is case sensitive. Change To Field in which to type the replacement text. Find Finds the first occurrence of the misspelled word. Change Replaces the highlighted word with the replacement text. Change All Replaces all occurrences of the search string. Close Closes the dialog box. &sigspace; Left Margin The number of characters to indent the printed text from the left edge of the paper Right Margin The number of columns for the text Left Align Aligns text lines on the left margin Right Align Aligns text lines on the right margin Justify Aligns text in a block style with equal left and right margins Center Text lines are centered Paragraph Applies the settings to the paragraph containing the cursor All Applies the settings to the entire document Close Closes the dialog box Other applications can use Text Editor as a tool to edit information and may restrict how editing changes are saved. For example, in some instances the Save As command may be replaced by Copy To File, which enables you to create a copy of the information you are viewing or editing without changing your edit session to the new file. Enter path or folder name&sigspace; Identifies the path name of the current folder. Filter An asterisk (*) shows all files. You can enter wildcard characters to display only those files that match an extension. For example, *.doc lists only those files with a .doc extension. Files Lists files located in the current folder. Folders Lists folders located in the current folder. Enter file name Field in which you type a new file name for your document. OK Copies the information to the file name provided. Update Displays a new list of files after changing the filter key or changing to a new folder. Cancel Cancels the Save As operation. If you use Wrap To Fit, these additional choices appear in the dialog box: Add newline characters to the end of word-wrapped lines. This is the default choice. It adds a newline character to the end of each wrapped line and preserves line breaks exactly as they appear in your document. Do not add newlines. Only line breaks created by Return will be preserved. This option retains the "soft" line breaks inserted by Wrap To Fit. If you reopen the document, the text conforms to the width of the new window. When saving a document, if you enter the name of an existing file this dialog box is displayed. To overwrite the original file, click OK. To enter a different file name, click Cancel and choose Save As from the File menu. Text Editor: starting in Terminal window The command-line syntax for starting Text Editor is: dtpad [options] Where options is one or more of the following: -server Specifies that Text Editor should be started in server mode with no initial window displayed. Subsequent invocations of Text Editor that run in the default requestor mode cause the server to create a separate edit window for each request. -standAlone This option forces Text Editor to run in standalone mode in which it handles its own editing independently of the Text Editor server. This can be useful if one desires an instance of Text Editor with an environment different from that of other Text Editor windows. An example would be running an instance under a different locale, or with different color resources. This is equivalent to setting the standAlone resource to True. -exitOnLastClose Specifies that the Text Editor server process should terminate when the last edit window for the display is closed. This option is applicable only with the -server option. If this option is not specified, the Text Editor server process remains active indefinitely, even when all edit windows have been closed. -noBlocking Specifies that the Text Editor requestor terminate as soon as the Text Editor server signifies that it can access a file in the referenced folder. In the absence of this option the Text Editor requestor process will block, and will exit only when it receives notification from the Text Editor server that the window has been closed. -statusLine This option causes Text Editor to display a status line at the bottom of the edit window. The status line reports the line number where the cursor is located, the total number of lines in the document, application messages, and alerts the user when Overstrike mode is on. It also provides a way to move the cursor to a specific line number. -wrapToFit Specifies that Wrap To Fit is set on at start up. Refer to the dtpad(1) man page for a complete list and description of Text Editor command-line options. application resources resources The following resources control the appearance and behavior of Text Editor. Dtpad*server: [ true | false ] Specifies that Text Editor should be started in server mode to process all subsequent edit requests for the display. Setting this resource to True is equivalent to specifying the -server command-line option. Dtpad*standAlone: [ true | false ] Specifies whether the current Text Editor process should run in standalone mode, where it handles its own editing, or in requestor mode, where the actual editing is handled by a single, separate Text Editor server process. Setting this resource to True is equivalent to specifying the -standAlone command-line option. Dtpad*blocking: [ true | false ] Specifies that when Text Editor is run in the default requestor mode, where the actual editing is handled by a separate Text Editor server process, the requestor process should not exit until the window associated with the edit request is closed. Setting this resource to False is equivalent to specifying the -noBlocking command-line option. Dtpad*exitOnLastClose: [ true | false ] Specifies whether the Text Editor server process should terminate when the last active edit window is closed. If this resource is set to False, then the Text Editor server will continue to run, ready to receive a message to edit a file. If this resource is set to True, the Text Editor server will terminate when the last active edit window is closed. Dtpad*statusLine: [ true | false ] Specifies whether Text Editor should display the status line at the bottom of the edit window. Setting this resource to True is equivalent to specifying the -statusLine command-line option. Dtpad*wrapToFit: [ true | false ] Specifies whether Text Editor should have Wrap To Fit enabled (True) or disabled (False) when the editor is started. Setting this resource to True is equivalent to specifying the -wrapToFit command-line option. Refer to the dtpad(1) man page for a complete list and description of Text Editor resources. Text Editor, executable application defaults resources Text Editor's executable file and application defaults file are: Executable file /usr/dt/bin/dtpad Application defaults file /usr/dt/app-defaults/lang/Dtpad