Subject: Re: Marking text for deletion

From: [email-masked] (Leroy Brown)
Date: 1 Jun 1996 10:16:30 GMT

Vladimir V. Piterbarg ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Peter Schmolck <[email-masked]> writes:

: >macvsog wrote:
: >> 
: >> I am using pine 3.91 and I can't figure out how to mark text and then
: >> delete it. The help guide says to use "^^" to mark the text and then
: >> delete it. I tried putting the marks at the beginning of the text and atYou did that alright. To continue, you must move the cursor -notice that the 

: I think your problem is that you TYPE "^^" (two symbols "^" in a row). But
:  first "^" is not a character you should type, but rather indicates that you 
: have to hold <CONTROL> key while typing "^". So, in other notation, to start
: marking text, type
: <CTRL>-^
: and then move cursor to where you what the block of text to end. Then type
: <CTRL>-K
: to delete it.

: If you knew that and didn't type two "^" in a row, I am sorry. I didn'y mean 
: to insult you.

: -Vladimir

Ok, that was the problem. Thanks for the help.

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From: Peter Schmolck <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 17:48:09 +0200

macvsog wrote:
> 
> I am using pine 3.91 and I can't figure out how to mark text and then
> delete it. The help guide says to use "^^" to mark the text and then
> delete it. I tried putting the marks at the beginning of the text and atYou did that alright. To continue, you must move the cursor -notice that the 
marked text being highlighted follows the cursor movement- to the last 
character of the part you want to erase. Now comes the "^K". Pressing "^^" a 
second time undoes mark set without any further action. ^K without a marked 
text erases the line where the cursor is located

> the end and when I used ^K to delete the text, only the line the cursor
> was on got deleted.

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From: [email-masked] (Vladimir V. Piterbarg)
Date: 31 May 1996 15:08:14 -0700

>> delete it. I tried putting the marks at the beginning of the text and atYou did that alright. To continue, you must move the cursor -notice that the 

I think your problem is that you TYPE "^^" (two symbols "^" in a row). But
 first "^" is not a character you should type, but rather indicates that you 
have to hold <CONTROL> key while typing "^". So, in other notation, to start
marking text, type
<CTRL>-^
and then move cursor to where you what the block of text to end. Then type
<CTRL>-K
to delete it.

If you knew that and didn't type two "^" in a row, I am sorry. I didn'y mean 
to insult you.

-Vladimir

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From: Bruce Eason <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 12:14:55 -0600

STILL HAVING TROUBLE?  PERHAPS CTRL-6 INSTEAD OF TWO UPPERCASE 6 KEYS IS
YOUR PROBLEM?  just a thought...when you said "marks" (plural) i started
thinking...(which i try to avoid, generally)...Yea or Nay? -30-

On Wed, 29 May 1996, macvsog wrote:

> delete it. I tried putting the marks at the beginning of the text and at
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> I would appreciate any help on this.
> Thanks
>
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