At the beginning of each editing session, the editor puts your keyboard in insert mode. The Insert Mode command key lets you switch between insert and overwrite modes. The bottom of the editor screen reads either INSERT or OVERWRITE . Insert and overwrite modes affect all keyboard characters.
You can use the following procedures with INed editor subcommands:
Press the Insert key (the Insert Mode function).
In insert mode, you can type new text in the middle of existing text without deleting anything. For example, if the cursor is at the comma in the following text:
He who laughs, laughs best.
and you type the word last , the new text is placed directly in front of the cursor, as follows:
He who laughs last, laughs best.
In overwrite mode, you can type over existing text. For example, if the cursor is on the last letter of the word lasts in the following text:
He who laughs lasts.
and you type the following string:
, laughs best.
the editor replaces everything you type over with the new text:
He who laughs last, laughs best.
Press the Ctrl-A, F key sequence (the Font function).
When you begin to edit a file, the font you type with (the default font for the INed editor) is Roman, and the alternate font is continuous underline.
Font changes affect only the text that you type after you change the font. To change the font for existing text, you must first change the font, and then retype the text.
Note: Use the Ctrl-A, P key sequence (the Print function) to print graphic characters. (How the graphic characters print depends on your printer.)
Press the Ctrl-A, Q key sequence (the Quote function), and type the character that corresponds to the desired control character.
Control characters are nonprinting characters. Some control characters perform formatting functions in text files. You can use the Ctrl-A, Q key sequence to insert one control character at a particular location in text. An example of a control character is FF (form feed). To enter a form-feed character, press the Ctrl-A, Q key sequence, and then type the letter l . See INed Editor ASCII Control Characters for more information.
Note: To print files formatted with control characters, go to the system prompt and use the operating system qprt command. The Ctrl-A, P key sequence (the Print function) does not recognize the control characters that you enter with the Ctrl-A, Q key sequence.
Move the cursor to the line directly below the place where you want the new lines to be inserted, and press the F6 key (the Insert Line function).
In the following example, a blank line needs to be inserted between the end of one paragraph and the beginning of the next paragraph:
this beginning will serve as a helpful guide to our initial system introduction. Please feel free to call if you have any questions or problems.
Move the cursor anywhere on the line that starts with Please feel free and press the F6 key. The result is:
this beginning will serve as a helpful guide to our initial system introduction. Please feel free to call if you have any questions or problems.
In the following example, two lines for a signature need to be inserted within the following:
Sincerely yours, Lila Beardorf Vice President, Ecological Affairs
Move the cursor to the line Lila Beardorf , press the Ctrl-A, Enter key sequence, type the number 2 in the ENTER box, and press the F6 key. The result is:
Sincerely yours, Lila Beardorf Vice President, Ecological Affairs
The qprt command in AIX Version 4.3 Commands Reference.
INed Editor Overview introduces general concepts about the INed editor, lists the INed editing functions and describes the system guidelines for using the INed editor.
INed Editor Functions for the Standard Keyboard is a table that shows the INed editor command keys on a standard keyboard.
INed Editor Files in AIX Version 4.3 Files Reference contains reference information about the files used by the INed editor.
INed Editor ASCII Control Characters.