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Moving Text Within a Window
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Moving
Text Within a Window
Sometimes you are looking
at a full screen of text, and only part of the current paragraph you are
reading is visible on the screen. The commands detailed in the following
section are used to shift which part of the current node is visible on
the screen.
SPC
/ Spacebar (scroll-forward)
C-v
- Shifts the text in this
window up to show more of the node which is currently below the bottom
of the window. A numeric argument shows that many more lines at the bottom
of the window; a numeric argument of 4
shifts all text in the window up 4 lines (discarding the top 4 lines),
and shows four new lines at the bottom of the window. Without a numeric
argument, Spacebar
takes the bottom two lines of the window and places them at the top of
the window, redisplaying almost a completely new screenful of lines.
Del
/Delete (scroll-backward)
M-v
- Shifts the text in this
window down, the inverse of scroll-forward.
- scroll-forward
and scroll-backward
moves forward and backward through the node structure of the file. If you
press Spacebar
while viewing the end of a node, or Del
while viewing the beginning of a node, what happens is controlled by the
variable scroll-behavior.
See Manipulating
Variables for more information.
C-l
(redraw-display)
- Redraws the display from
scratch, or shifts the line whit the cursor to a specif
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ied location. With
no numeric argument, ‘C-l’
clears the screen, and then redraws its entire contents. With a numeric
argument of n,
the line with the cursor is shifts to the nth
line of the window.
C-x w
(toggle-wrap)
- Toggles the state of line
wrapping in the current window. Normally, when lines wrap when they
are longer than the screen width,; i.e., they continue on the next line.
Lines which wrap display a ‘\’
in the rightmost column of the screen. You can cause such lines to be terminated
at the rightmost column by changing the state of line wrapping in the window
with C-x,
w.
When a line contains more than one screen width, ‘$’
appears in the rightmost column of the line, and the remainder is invisible.
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