Bronze Edition Guide - True BASIC

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Selecting Text. To delete, move, or copy something, you must first select or highlight the
desired text using the mouse in one of the following ways:
• drag across the desired words or lines
• double-click on a word to select that word
You can extend a selection by moving the mouse pointer and then holding the Shift key while
you click with the mouse.
If you are not familiar with Cut, Copy, and Paste, practice using them with the SMOKY demo
program as described below. (Just don’t save your changes without using Save As to rename
the program; you’ll use SMOKY again in Chapter 17.)
Open the demo program SMOKY and run it to see what it does. Now practice selecting the
four lines of DATA statements.
Deleting Lines. Once you’ve selected something, use the Cut command to remove the text.
Select the two comment lines in the SMOKY program and choose Cut in the Edit menu. The
lines will disappear.
The Cut command puts these lines into the “clipboard” so you can get them back later. Choose
Paste in the Edit menu. True BASIC will put the lines back where they were originally.
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x The Cut command removes selected text from your program and puts
it in the clipboard.
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Note that you can also use the Delete key to remove selected lines. But, unlike Cut, the
Delete key does not put anything in the clipboard. You cannot Paste something that has
been “deleted”.
Moving Lines. Use Cut and Paste to remove selected lines and then insert them elsewhere
in the file.
This time, select the four DATA lines in the SMOKY program. Use the Cut command to
remove the lines (and put them in the clipboard). Then move the insertion point to the
left of the DO statement. Now choose the Paste command. True BASIC puts the DATA
lines before the DO loop.