Compose message screen and commands

The following is a sample message composition screen:

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| PINE 3.96   COMPOSE MESSAGE                 Folder: INBOX  20 Messages |
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| To      : Ross Armstrong <ross@elsewhere.edu>                          |
| Cc      : isabelle@elsewhere.edu                                       |
| Attchmnt: 1. /usr/users/jsingh/article.ps (843 KB) "My article"        |
| Subject : Re: Scanning pencil drawings                                 |
| ----- Message Text -----                                               |
| Hi Ross,                                                               |
| I'm actually in the middle of writing an article on that very subject  |
| for a magazine.  I am sending you a PostScript file of a draft,        |
| attached to this email message as an attachment.  Let me know if you   |
| have any questions about it!                                           |
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|     Jasjit Singh, Ph.D. - Dept. of Educational Technology              |
|     Nowhere College, Notown, USA     Tel.: (123) 669-4373              |
|     Internet Email: jsingh@edutech.nowhere.edu                         |
|     WWW homepage: http://www.edutech.nowhere.edu/~jsingh/              |
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|^G Get Help ^X Send    ^R Read File ^Y Prev Pg ^K Cut Text   ^O Postpone|
|^C Cancel   ^J Justify ^_ Alt Edit  ^V Next Pg ^U UnCut Text ^T To Spell|
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• Moving the Cursor.

  On most systems, your arrows keys will move the cursor around the screen as expected. In addition, the following movement keys are always available in the composition screen:

  • Back single character: <Ctrl>B

  • Forward single character: <Ctrl>F

  • Up single line: <Ctrl>P

  • Down single line: <Ctrl>N

  • Beginning of current line: <Ctrl>A

  • End of current line: <Ctrl>E

  • Up one screen: <Ctrl>Y

  • Down one screen: <Ctrl>V

  • Next word: <Ctrl><Space>

• Editing the text.

  • Delete current character: <Ctrl>D

  • Delete previous character: <Ctrl>H

  • Set a mark: <Ctrl>^

  • Cut current block or line: <Ctrl>K

  • Justify paragraph: <Ctrl>J

  • Paste deleted lines or unjustify paragraph: <Ctrl>U

    The <Ctrl>U key sequence is used for two different things in the midst of composing a message. Its normal meaning is ``paste''. That is, it will paste in the line or lines that you last cut with the <Ctrl>K. However, immediately following a paragraph justification (<Ctrl>J), the <Ctrl>U key temporarily changes into ``unjustify''. If the paragraph justification went bad (changed some tabs, justified many paragraphs into one, etc.) you'll see it right away and be able to unjustify. After a few keystrokes, <Ctrl>U reverts back to ``paste''. It sounds confusing, but you probably won't have a problem with it once you try it.

• General commands.

  • WhereIs: <Ctrl>W

    This feature searches for a word in a message or goes to the first/last line.

  • Help: <Ctrl>G

  • Use Alternate editor: <Ctrl>_

    This feature can be enabled/disabled in setup/configuration.

  • Suspend: <Ctrl>Z

    This feature can be enabled/disabled in setup/configuration.

  • Redraw screen: <Ctrl>L

  • Read file: <Ctrl>R

  • Spell check: <Ctrl>T

• Message action commands.

  • Send: <Ctrl>X

  • Postpone: <Ctrl>O

  • Cancel: <Ctrl>C