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This chapter describes version 1.73 (3-Apr-2015)
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Displaying other file types
To display any other file type, drag the file icon to the Edit icon on the icon bar, or hold down Shift and double-click on it. If the Filer Configuration option Double-click and hold is set, that can be done instead of holding down Shift. BASIC files are displayed as text.
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Selecting text
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| To | Do this | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Select the entire text | Choose Select→Select all | You can also press Ctrl-A |
Block editing operations
First select a block of text as described in the previous section.
| To | Do this | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Delete a selection | Choose Select→Delete. | You can also press Ctrl-K. |
| Copy a selection to the clipboard | Choose Select→Copy. | You can also press Ctrl-C. |
| Paste in a selection from the clipboard | choose Select→Paste. | You can also press Ctrl-V. |
| Cut a selection, i.e. copy it to the clipboard and delete it from the text | Choose Select→Cut. | You can also press Ctrl-X. |
| Swap the case of a selection | Choose Select→Swap case. | You can also press Ctrl-S. |
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| To | Do this | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Delete a selection | Choose Select→Delete. | You can also press Ctrl-X. |
| Copy a selection | Place the caret where you want the selection to be copied to, then choose Select→Copy. | You can also press Ctrl-C. |
| Move a selection | Place the caret where you want the selection to appear and choose Select→Move. | You can also press Ctrl-V. |
Note how these older uses of Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V differ from the more common conventions described above which use a global clipboard.
In both styles of Edit, the operations can be used between Edit windows, whether the windows show different documents or different views of the same one.
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Saving features in a Desktop boot file
(rename and rewrite this paragraph because Chapter 3 “Customising the desktop start-up procedure” and Appendix C “Configuring applications” will be overhauled. There is no longer a Task manager menu item “Desktop boot”.)
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In the Select menu
| To | Press | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Save selection | not in earlier versions | |
| Print selection | Print screen | not in earlier versions |
| Swap case of selection | Ctrl-S | not in earlier versions |
| Indent selection | Ctrl-F4 | was in the Edit menu |
| Cut selection | Ctrl-X | |
| Copy selection | Ctrl-C | |
| Paste selection | Ctrl-V | not in earlier versions |
| Delete selection | Ctrl-K | not in earlier versions |
| Select all | Ctrl-A | |
| Clear selection | Ctrl-Z |
In the Edit menu
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