HELP XVEDKEYS Adrian Howard Jun 1991
Updated: Adrian Howard Aug 1992
Updated: Aaron Sloman July 2003
Some of the Key Bindings were changed in July 2003
The old ones are described in HELP OLDXVEDKEYS and can
be restored by doing
uses oldvedxvedkeys
oldvedxvedkeys();
A guide to the default key bindings for XVed.
See also HELP * VEDXTERMKEYS (This includes a diagrammatic display).
CONTENTS - (Use <ENTER> g to access required sections)
-- INTRODUCTION
-- NOTATION
-- INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MOTIF AND XVED
-- KEY BINDINGS
-- Additional functions
-- RELATED DOCUMENTATION
-- INTRODUCTION -------------------------------------------------------
XVed will normally attempt to determine the type of keyboard it is
attached to and apply appropriate key bindings. If XVed cannot identify
a keyboard then the bindings in the source file SRC * VEDXVEDKEYS.P are
used. This file gives a description of the default key bindings supplied
by this library.
-- NOTATION -----------------------------------------------------------
The descriptions of the key bindings use the following notation:
^A
The single character generated by pressing the <CTRL> key and the
"A" key simultaneously.
ESC A
The sequence of pressing and releasing the <ESCAPE> (ESC) key and
then pressing the "A" key.
META A
The sequence generated by pressing the <META> modifier key
and the "A" key simultaneously. The META key is sometimes marked
"Left" or "Alt". These bindings should hold true for all XVed
keyboard types.
KP-X (Where X is one of 0 to 9)
The "X" key on the keypad (usually on the right hand side of the
keyboard. On some laptop computers these are invoked by holding down
a function key and pressing a key with the appropriate label.
Note: alternative names for the keypad keys KP-0 to KP-8 and the Dot
(KP_Decimal) key are as shown in this configuration:
KP_Home (7) KP_Up (8) KP_Prior (9)
KP_Left (4) KP_Begin (5) KP_Right (6)
KP_End (1) KP_Down (2) KP_Next (3)
KP_Insert (0) KP_Delete (.)
fN
Function key N. The amount and names of function keys vary from
keyboard to keyboard.
LF
The line-feed key.
Often not included. This can be emulated as ^J
BS
The back-space key.
Usually above the RETURN key. Usually the same as ^h
DEL
The delete or erase key.
On PC keyboards this is usually to the right of the RETURN key,
in the middle keypad cluster
UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT
The normal cursor keys, marked by arrows. On PC keyboards and many
others these form a group to the right of the main key cluster.
These are duplicated on the numeric keypad on the right of most
keyboards, i.e. keys 8, 2, 4 and 6.
PRIOR, NEXT, HOME, END, INSERT
The first two are sometimes labelled:
PAGEUP, PAGEDOWN,
These keys vary from keyboard to keyboard and may not exist as a
single key press, or may have a different name from the ones given above.
The names used here are those from the logical KeySym names used in
the X window system.
-- INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MOTIF AND XVED --------------------------------
If you are using Motif there is a possibility that there will be
interactions between the Motif "virtual key bindings" and your XVed
keyboard setup. For example most Motif systems have the function key f10
bound to the the virtual key osfMenuBar which cause keyboard focus to
move to the first item on the menu bar. This process will override any
binding XVed places on the key.
One way of overcoming this is to rebind the XVed function to another key
using the normal methods (see HELP *VEDSET.)
Another would be to change which key is used to switch to the menu bar.
You can do this by altering the menuAccelerator resource of the menu bar
in XVed. For more information see REF *RowColumnWidget. As an example
adding the following to your resource file would cause the key
combination Shift-f10 intead of osfMenuBar to be used to shift focus to
the menu bar:
XVed*menuAccelerator: Shift <Key>F10
You could also redefine which key osfMenuBar is bound to. If you are
using the MWM window manager you could add the following line to your
".motifbind" file:
osfMenuBar :Shift <Key>F10
This would redefine osfMenuBar as Shift-f10, instead of f10 (for more
information see the manual for MWM.)
Altering your ".motifbind" file will alter the behaviour of the virtual
key bindings in all the Motif applications which you are using. If you
would prefer to alter just the behaviour of XVed you could instead alter
the resource named defaultVirtualBindings. For example the following
would again redefine osfMenuBar as Shift-f10.
XVed*defaultVirtualBindings: \
<... other virtual bindings...>
osfMenuBar :Shift <Key>F10\n\
<... other virtual bindings...>
For more information see man 3 VirtualBindings under Motif.
-- KEY BINDINGS -------------------------------------------------------
In the following 'text selection' refers to a highlighted portion of text
selected using the mouse. The 'Clipboard' is a hidden location where some
previously selected text may be stored.
Key Function XVed Procedure
--- -------- --------------
META X Cut the text selection from the file vedcut_selection
META C Copy selected text to the clipboard vedcopy_selection
META V Paste the clipboard into the document vedpaste_selection
META D Compile the text on the clipboard vedcompile_selection
META H -vedgetsysfile- from the clipboard vedhelpon_selection
META M Toggles the menubar on and off -
META S Toggles the scrollbar on and off -
UP Move cursor up one char vedcharup
DOWN Move cursor down one char vedchardown
LEFT Move cursor left one char vedcharleft
RIGHT Move cursor right one char vedcharright
ESC UP Move cursor up several lines vedcharuplots
ESC DOWN Move cursor down several lines vedchardownlots
ESC LEFT Move cursor left several lines vedcharleftlots
ESC RIGHT Move cursor right several lines vedcharrightlots
KP-8 Move cursor up one char vedcharup
KP-2 Move cursor down one char vedchardown
KP-4 Move cursor left one char vedcharleft
KP-6 Move cursor right one char vedcharright
KP-5 Move current line to middle of window vedmidwindow
KP-7 Move cursor north-west one char vedcharupleft
KP-9 Move cursor north-east one char vedcharupright
KP-1 Move cursor south-west one char vedchardownleft
KP-3 Move cursor south-east one char vedchardownright
ESC KP-8 Move cursor up several lines vedcharuplots
ESC KP-2 Move cursor down several lines vedchardownlots
ESC KP-4 Move cursor left several lines vedcharleftlots
ESC KP-6 Move cursor right several lines vedcharrightlots
ESC KP-7 Move cursor north-west several chars vedcharupleft
ESC KP-9 Move cursor north-east several chars vedcharupright
ESC KP-1 Move cursor south-west several chars vedchardownleft
ESC KP-3 Move cursor south-east several chars vedchardownright
ENTER Move to the status line vedenter
KP-0 Move one word to the left vedwordleft
KP-. Move one word to the right vedwordright
KP-+ Switch between buffer and status line vedstatusswitch
KP-- Redo last command vedredocommand
KP-* Compile current line vedloadline
ESC KP-* Compile marked range ved_lmr
KP-/ Show help file for Ved Keys vedhelpkey
ESC KP-/ Show help for one key ved_hkey
NB: chardelete and dotdelete have been swapped since July 2003
to make XVed more like other familiar interfaces.
BS Delete char to left of the cursor vedchardelete
^h Delete char to left of the cursor vedchardelete
^? Delete char under cursor veddotdelete
DEL Delete char under cursor veddotdelete
ESC DEL Join current line to previous line vedjoinline
ESC BS Join current line to previous line vedjoinline
HELP Get help (defaults to ved_hkeys) vedhelpkey
ESC HELP Get help on the purpose of a key ved_hkey
(There is no 'Help' Key on most PC keyboards.)
(Next two often labelled PageUp and PageDown)
PRIOR Move up one screen vedprevscreen
ESC PRIOR Scroll other file up one page ved_xup
NEXT Move down one screen vednextscreen
ESC NEXT Scroll other file down one page ved_xdn
HOME Move to the top of the file vedtopfile
ESC HOME Move to the left edge of text in
current line vedtextleft
END Move to end of the file vedendfile
ESC END Move to the right edge of text vedtextright
ESC w Toggle normal/double length window vedsetwindow
(Not useful in XVed)
INSERT Toggle static mode ved_static
ESC INSERT Insert line above vedlineable
f1 Mark start of a marked range vedmarklo
f2 Mark end of a marked range vedmarkhi
f3 Delete line to the left vedclearhead
f4 Delete the whole line vedlinedelete
f5 Delete line to the right vedcleartail
f6 Delete word to the left vedwordleftdelete
f7 Delete word to the right vedwordrightdelete
f8 Move a marked range ved_m
f9 Copy (tanscribe) the marked range ved_t
f10 Turn on keyboard mode for menus (See section on Motif above)
If not using Motif, refresh screen (same as ^L)
f11 Push position on position stack vedpushkey
f12 Swap position with the top of stack vedexchangeposition
ESC f1 Mark from the start of the file ved_mbf
ESC f2 Mark from the end of the file ved_mef
Note: in what follows 'yank a word' is short for 'yank a part line',
i.e. the last deleted word or head or tail of a line:
ESC f3 Yank a word from -vvedworddump- ved_yankw
ESC f4 Yank a line from -vvedlinedump- ved_yankl
ESC f5 Yank a word from -vvedworddump- ved_yankw
ESC f6 Yank a word from -vvedworddump- ved_yankw
ESC f7 Yank a word from -vvedworddump- ved_yankw
ESC f8 Move range in from last file ved_mi
ESC f9 Copy range in from last file ved_ti
ESC f11 Pop position from position stack vedpopkey
ESC f12 Clear the position stack ved_cps
-- Additional functions -----------------------------------------------
Some additional functions are provided in LIB * VEDXTERMKEYS
These two make it easy to move or copy the marked range in the current
file (the mnemonic should be obvious);
ESC -
keep one copy of marked range and move it here
ESC =
make two copies, by copying to here
-- RELATED DOCUMENTATION ----------------------------------------------
HELP *XVED/Server Keyboard Setup - A description of keyboard setup in
XVed
HELP *XTERMKEYS - Default key bindings for Ved running in a
'dumb terminal' xterm window.
HELP *DXVEDKEYS - Key bindings for DECwindows terminal
HELP *NCDXVEDKEYS - Key bindings for NCD X terminal
HELP *SUNXVEDKEYS - Key bindings for Sun workstations
HELP *HPXVEDKEYS - Key bindings for HP workstations
--- C.x/x/ved/help/xvedkeys ------------------------------------------
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