Museum

Home

Lab Overview

Retrotechnology Articles

⇒ Online Manual

Media Vault

Software Library

Restoration Projects

Artifacts Sought

EVE SET_CURSOR_FREE — VMS 5.1-B

 SET CURSOR FREE

 Sets the cursor to move freely, as opposed to being bound to the shape or
 flow of your text.  (Default setting.)

 o  With a free cursor, you can move anywhere in the buffer and insert text
    whether characters are already there or not.  You can move left of the
    left margin (if the left margin is greater than 1), right of the right
    margin, or past the [End of file] marker (if the buffer is shorter than
    the current window).

 o  For example, if you are at the end of a line and press the right arrow
    key, the cursor moves past the end of the line and you can put text there.
    By contrast, a bound cursor moves to the start of the next line.

 o  To enable a bound cursor (as in EDT and similar editors), use the SET
    CURSOR BOUND command.  You may want to put the command in your EVE
    initialization file.  Also, using the SET KEYPAD WPS command
    automatically sets the cursor to bound.

 Related topics:

    EDT CONVERSION    SET CURSOR BOUND    WPS DIFFERENCES

Typewritten Software • bear@typewritten.org • Edmonds, WA 98026