Editor Commands

This section describes all of the Editor commands.

Command Format

Editor commands are letter mnemonics that must appear as the first non-blank input character(s) of an Editor sentence. Editor commands are not case sensitive; they can be entered as either upper or lower case characters.

Control Commands

Several other commands you can use to edit TCL sentences also work in the Editor. These are the control commands CTRL+H (a synonym for BACKSPACE), CTRL+R, and CTRL+X.

Command Parameters

Command parameters follow the command; blanks can be inserted between parameters for clarity if you desire, but embedded blanks within parameters are not permitted.

Suppressing Editor Output

Any Editor command (except the control commands) can be preceded optionally by a period (.). The period suppresses any Editor output associated with that command. This feature is useful when the Editor is called from a Proc.

Multiple Editor Commands

Multiple Editor commands can be specified in the same input line by separating them with escape characters (ESC, or CTRL+[), or a character specified with the CD command. You must be cautious when doing this to avoid creating illegal sequences of commands, or programming infinite loops. If any command produces an error, the remaining commands in the line are skipped.

Command strings containing multiple commands can also be prestored using the P command.

Display of Control Characters

Control characters are displayed as periods.