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Inserting and Deleting
When you type most alphabetic or numeric
keys, they appear in the buffer before point. Typing one of these
keys runs the command normal-character, which simply inserts
the character that invoked it into the buffer.
When you type a character bound to the normal-character
command, Epsilon inserts the character before point, so that the
cursor moves forward as you type characters. Epsilon can also
overwrite as you type. The overwrite-mode command, bound to
the <Ins> key, toggles overwriting for the current buffer. If
you give it a nonzero numeric argument (for example, by typing Ctrl-U
before invoking the command, see Numeric Arguments), it
doesn't toggle overwriting, but turns it on. Similarly, a numeric
argument of zero always turns off overwriting. Overwriting will
occur for all characters except newline, and overwriting never occurs
at the end of a line. In these cases the usual insertion will
happen. The buffer-specific variable over-mode controls
overwriting.
The Ctrl-Q key inserts special characters, such as control characters,
into the current buffer. It waits for you to type a character, then
inserts it. This command ignores non-ASCII keys. If you "quote"
an Alt key in this way, Epsilon inserts the corresponding character
with its high bit on. You can use this command for inserting
characters like Ctrl-Z that would normally execute a command when
typed.
Sometimes you may want to insert a character whose ASCII value
you know, but you may not know which keystroke that character
corresponds to. Epsilon provides an insert-ascii command
on Alt-# for this purpose. It prompts you for a numeric value, then
inserts the ASCII character with that value into the buffer.
By default, the command interprets the value in base 10. You can
specify a hexadecimal value by prefixing the characters "0x" to the
number, or an octal value by prefixing the character "0o" to the
number, or a binary value by prefixing "0b". For example, the
numbers "87", "0x57", "0o127", and "0b1010111" all refer to
the same number (four score and seven), and they all would insert a
"W" character if given to the insert-ascii command.
In most environments you can type graphics characters by holding down
the Alt key and typing the character's value on the numeric keypad,
unless you've disabled these keys with the program-keys command,
described in Altering Keys. Under DOS and OS/2, Epsilon
will automatically quote the character so that it's inserted in the
buffer and not interpreted as a command. (You may need to type a
Ctrl-Q first to quote the character in other environments.)
The Ctrl-O command inserts a newline after point (or, to put it another
way, inserts a newline before point as usual, then backs up over it).
Use this command to break a line when you want to insert new text in
the middle, or to "open" up some space after point.
The <Backspace> key deletes the character before point, and the
<Del> key deletes the character after point. In other words,
<Backspace> deletes backwards, and <Del> deletes forwards.
These commands usually do not save deleted characters in the kill
ring (see the next section).
If you prefix these commands with a numeric argument of n, they
will delete n characters instead of one. In that case, you can
retrieve the deleted text from the kill ring with the Ctrl-Y key (see
the next section).
If <Backspace> or <Del> follows one of the kill commands, the
deleted character becomes part of the text removed by the kill
command. See the following section for information on the kill
commands.
The buffer-specific variable delete-hacking-tabs makes
<Backspace> operate differently when deleting tabs.
If nonzero, <Backspace> first turns the tab into the number
of spaces necessary to keep the cursor in the same column, then
deletes one of the spaces.
The key Alt-\ deletes spaces and tabs surrounding point.
The Ctrl-X Ctrl-O command deletes empty lines adjacent to point, or lines
that contain only spaces and tabs, turning two or more such blank
lines into a single blank line. Ctrl-X Ctrl-O deletes a lone blank line.
If you prefix a numeric argument of n, exactly n blank lines
appear regardless of the number of blank lines present originally.
Standard bindings:
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