Perfect Writer allows you to insert a file anywhere in your document. Simply position the cursor where you want the file inserted and enter:
Perfect Writer will respond in the Echo Line:
File to Insert[CR]:
Enter the filename and press the carriage return. Perfect Writer will insert the file into your current file buffer at the position of the cursor. The cursor is left at the end of the inserted file. The inserted file is also placed in the temporary storage buffer and can be Iyanked backl elsewhere.
DELETE AND INSERT Command Summary
Delete Previous Character Delete Previous Word
(6) 9 ... (6)
Delete Next Character Delete Next Word
~ e .... · .. ·@)
Delete to End of Line Delete Entire Line
8----0 9 ... &-0
Delete Sentence Forward
e···«E)
Mark Set
~eS-PACE· 1t:::)
Wipe Region Mark Whole Parag raph
e----e e ... e
Note: The commands are found on the Reference Card.
Exercise:
Call up Perfect Writer's exercise text, "EDITME2.MSS" by typing:
A> pw editme2.mss
followed by a carriage return
On this text practice deleting and restoring words and sentences:
1. Delete the first six characters of the first line. Can you 'yank' them back? (No, because Perfect Writer does not save individual characters.
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2. Delete the first two words, using the DELETE NEXT WORD or DELETE PREVIOUS WORD commands. Can you yank these words back? (Yes!
Perfect Writer temporarily saves deletions that are larger than a single character
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3. Delete a line or portion of a line giving the DELETE LINE command. (Notice that if the cursor is in the middle of a line only the characters to the right of the cursor are deleted.
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4. Delete an entire line, after first positioning the cursor at the end of the line.
5. Delete a sentence.
6. Delete the first seven lines, afterwards restoring them using the YANKBACK command.
7. Delete the entire document! Which of the MARK SET commands work for your terminal?
EDITME2: Practicing Deletions
Mark Twain gave probably the best advice ever on writing and editing when he said "When in doubt, strike it out!"
Of course, Mark Twain did not have Perfect Writer then to help him delete things. He certainly would have been amazed at how quickly and neatly deletions from a text can be made now. No more having to work around lines that have been 'eX'd out.' No more having to write back IN something you have mistakenly scratched over. (Perfect Writer temporarily saves all deletions larger than a single character. )
Note that the Meta (or Escape) and Control commands share for the most part the same relationship here as they did for moving the cursor. That is, while a Con-trol --- D will delete the next character, Escape --- D will delete the next word.
Again, you don't have to learn all the commands at once. A few to start will serve you well for a long time.
When you are finished enter the QUIT command:
Introduction
Chapter VI
STORING YOUR TEXT
You have finished creating and editing a document, and now wish to have Perfect Writer save it for later editing and printing. Perfect Writer will save your document as a 'file,' identifying it with a unique 'filename.' In saving your docu-ment as a file, Perfect Writer creates in effect a 'master copy' of the docudocu-ment, which cannot thereafter be erased or destroyed unless you specifically request it.
When you wish to edit a document you have previously saved, Perfect Writer places a copy of that document into a temporary working space for you.
Whatever changes you make to this copy do not affect your original.
When you have finished editing the copy, you have the option of either: replac-ing the original with the newly edited copy, or of savreplac-ing the copy in a new file by itself, thereby retaining both versions of your document.
Perfect Writer allows you to create as many new files as storage space will allow. To help you remember the files you have created, the DOS operating system will allow you to list the names of all files on your disks.
File Names
DOS requires that file names follow a particular form. Specifically, file names cannot be longer than eight (8) characters, and cannot contain any of the following
> < ., ; : = ? * _. It is helpful when creating file names to be as inventive as possi-ble. Some examples of file names are:
CHAPTER3.MSS (Chapter three of your book) MA YDIARY.MSS (May entries of your diary) JSSMITH.MSS (The"J S Smith" file)
Default File Name
Should you neglect to supply a filename, Perfect Writer will supply a ' default' filename, one that is easily recognized: "NAME.ME." This filename indicates that the document contained in it has not been given a name.
Important: The 'NAME.ME' file 'is a temporary 'back-up' file into which Perfect Writer will continue to store unnamed documents. However, each time it stores a document, it overwrites whatever may have been stored there previously. Don't risk losing your documents by not giving them file names!
As a reminder of which document you are working with, Perfect Writer displays the current file name in the Mode Line. If you have not yet named the document, the default filename, 'NAME.ME,' will be displayed.