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6.4 Basic Editing Commands CP/M 3 User's Guide
The following table alphabetically summarizes the basic editing commands and
their valid arguments.
Table 6-2. Basic Editing Commands
Command Action
B, -B Move CP to the beginning (B) or end (-B) of the memory
buffer.
nC, -nC Move CP n characters forward (nC) or backward (-nC)
through the memory buffer.
nD, -nD Delete n characters before (-nD) or after (nD) the CP.
I Enter insert mode.
Istring CTRL-Z Insert a string of characters.
nK, -nK Delete (kill) n lines before the CP (-nK) or after the CP
(nK).
nL, -nL Move the CP n lines forward (nL) or backward (-nL)
through the memory buffer.
nT. -nT Type n lines before the CP (-nT) or after the CP (nT).
n, -n Move the CP n lines before the CP (-n) or after the CP (n)
and display the destination line.
The following sections discuss ED's basic editing commands in more detail. The
examples in these sections illustrate how the commands affect the position of the
character pointer in the memory buffer. Later examples in Section 6.5, "Combining
ED Commands," illustrate how the commands appear at the screen. For these sections,
however, the symbol ' in command examples represents the character pointer,
which you must imagine in the memory buffer.
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