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EVE SET_CURSOR_BOUND — VMS 5.0

 SET CURSOR BOUND

 Sets the cursor to a bound state, following the flow of your text.

 o  Using a bound cursor, you cannot move into an unused portion of the
    buffer (or "white space").

 o  For example, with a bound cursor, if you are at the end of a line and
    press the RIGHT arrow key, the cursor moves to the start of the next
    line, if any.  It does NOT move past the right margin.  By contrast,
    with a free cursor, you can move anywhere in the buffer whether
    characters are already there or not.

 o  If you are accustomed to a bound cursor (as in EDT), you may want to
    put SET CURSOR BOUND in an initialization file.  The default is FREE.

 o  Using SET KEYPAD WPS automatically sets the cursor to BOUND.

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