=TITLE ERASE
 Inserts the item specified by the option word.

 Format

     ERASE   option

Additional information available:

CHARACTERLINEPLACEHOLDERSELECTIONWORD

=TITLE CHARACTER
 Erases a single character at the current cursor
 position.

 Format

     ERASE CHARACTER

Additional information available:

Qualifiers

=TITLE Qualifiers

Additional information available:

/CURRENT/FORWARD/INDICATED/REVERSE/TO

    /CURRENT (D)

 Erases text in the current direction.

 Erases text in the forward direction.

    /INDICATED (D)

 Deletes the character at the current cursor position.

 Erases text in the reverse direction.

 Deletes the character at the current cursor position
 when the direction is FORWARD. Deletes the character
 before the current cursor position when the direction
 is REVERSE.

=TITLE LINE
 Removes a line of text at the current cursor position.

 Format

     ERASE LINE

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Qualifiers

=TITLE Qualifiers

Additional information available:

/BEGINNING/CURRENT/END/FORWARD/INDICATED
/REVERSE/TO

    /BEGINNING (D)

 Indicates that the cursor should be moved to the
 beginning of a line as part of the ERASE operation. You
 cannot use the /BEGINNING qualifier with the /INDICATED
 qualifier.

    /CURRENT (D)

 Erases text in the current direction.

 Indicates that the cursor should be moved to the end of
 a line as part of the ERASE operation. You cannot use
 the /END qualifier with the /INDICATED qualifier.

 Erases text in the forward direction.

    /INDICATED (D)

 Erases the entire line that the cursor is on (including
 the carriage return and line feed), regardless of the
 cursor position within that line or the direction
 specified. The cursor moves to the beginning of the
 next line. You cannot use the /INDICATED qualifier with
 the /BEGINNING, /END, or /TO qualifiers.

 Erases text in the reverse direction.

 Erases text from the current cursor position to the
 next line in the direction specified.

=TITLE PLACEHOLDER
 Deletes the text of a placeholder and related
 punctuation.

 Format

     ERASE PLACEHOLDER

Additional information available:

Qualifiers

=TITLE Qualifiers

Additional information available:

/CURRENT/FORWARD/GOTO_PLACEHOLDER/REVERSE

    /CURRENT (D)

 Specifies cursor motion in the current direction.

 Specifies cursor motion in the forward direction.

    /GOTO_PLACEHOLDER (D)
    /NOGOTO_PLACEHOLDER

 Specifies whether or not the cursor should move to the
 next placeholder after performing the ERASE operation.
 The movement to the next placeholder does not take
 place if it would force the current position to scroll
 off the screen.

 Specifies cursor motion in the reverse direction.

=TITLE SELECTION
 Removes the text within the selected range.

 Format

     ERASE SELECTION

=TITLE WORD
 Removes a word at the current cursor position.

 Format

     ERASE WORD

Additional information available:

Qualifiers

=TITLE Qualifiers

Additional information available:

/CURRENT/FORWARD/INDICATED/NEXT/PREVIOUS/REVERSE
/TO

    /CURRENT (D)

 Erases text in the current direction.

 Erases text in the forward direction.

    /INDICATED (D)

 Deletes the entire word the cursor is on, regardless of
 the cursor's position within that word.

 Erases the word following the cursor. When the cursor
 is positioned on a space, LSE erases all the spaces
 before and after the deleted word except one space. If
 the cursor is at the end of a line, the next line is
 appended to the current line. You cannot use the /NEXT
 qualifier with any other ERASE WORD qualifier.

 Erases the previous word when the cursor is on the
 first character of a word or between words. When the
 cursor is in the middle of a word, that entire word is
 erased and the cursor moves on to the first letter of
 the next word. You cannot use the /PREVIOUS qualifier
 with any other ERASE WORD qualifier.

 Erases text in the reverse direction.

 Deletes text from the current cursor position to the
 beginning of the next word in the specified direction.