Subject: pico: setting mark

From: [email-masked] (Mark D. Nagel)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 19:13:31 GMT

I am running pico 2.4 (on Solaris 2.4) and am unable to do a set-mark. "Help"
says to use Ctl-Ctl, the manual page says it's Ctl-_ (Ctl-underscore),
neither work: Ctl-_ give "unknown Command ...". The real issue is that I'd
like to do block copy/paste operations.

Thanks in advance for any insight.

-Mark Nagel

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From: [email-masked] (Mark D. Nagel)
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 20:04:01 GMT

>-Mark Nagel

Thanks to everyone who responded.

The correct sequence is Ctl-^ (Ctl-SHIFT-6).

NOTE: The manual page is incorrect -

    Blocks of text can be moved, copied or deleted with creative
    use  of  the  command  for  mark  (ctrl-underscore) ...

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From: Jeffrey Goldberg <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 1996 18:58:11 +0000

> says to use Ctl-Ctl, the manual page says it's Ctl-_ (Ctl-underscore),

Try ctrl-^ where ^ is the caret (hat, shift-6) and not another control
for mark.

Ctrl-_ (control underscore) calls the alternative editor, obiously the ^
got formatted funny in the manual.

-jeff

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