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Selecting text
One important facility which the editor provides is a means to
handle whole blocks of text
quickly andconveuiently. This is one area where the editor has beenchanged from BASIC2.
Instead of selecting the beginning and
end of the block separately, they are selected by
‘dragging’ the pointer across text to
select a continuous block, an described in the next few
paragraphs.
Selecting a block
Begin by positioning the pointer at one end of the block you wish
to
seleci Click the leh- hand mouse button, but do not release it. Now ‘drag’ the mouse across the lent (without
releasing the button) and as you do so you will see that the
block of tentbetween the pointer
and theplace you originally clicked will become
highlighted. (Theexact colourchange will
depend on the system you are using.) Move the pointer to the other end of the
block of text, and release the button. The whole block will stay highlighted, and the block is now selected and ready for you to operate on.
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