HP Integrity NonStop H-Series - Manual (Page 62)

Deleting a Sentence
Revising a Simple Document
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Deleting a Sentence Finish editing the body of the memo by deleting the last sentence. You
have learned several ways to delete. However, as long as you have the item
SENTENCE on the status line, it is quite efficient to simply use the DELETE
command in conjunction with SENTENCE.
1. If you do not have the item SENTENCE on the status line, press the
SENTENCE key.
2. Press the FORWARD key to move to the beginning of the sentence.
3. Press the key labeled DELETE on the template. TEDIT deletes the last
sentence.
Highlight Using and Canceling Persistence
So far in this section you pressed the function key for a text item first, then
you pressed the key for the text command. (Remember that a text
command—such as DELETE or MOVE—tells TEDIT to take action on a text
item; the item is the object—such as a WORD or SENTENCE—on which the
action is taken.) The function of the text item appeared on the status line.
Then you used the item that persisted on the status line with keys that give
commands. Thus, throughout this section, you have been using the TEDIT
feature called persistence.
This is how persistence works: Once you have used a text command or text
item, it “persists,” or remains effective, until you replace it with another.
The persistent command or item always appears on the status line.
However, you can replace a persistent command only with another
command; you can replace a persistent item only with another item.
For example, the last two keys you used were SENTENCE and DELETE. If
you had started out by pressing DELETE and then SENTENCE instead of
SENTENCE and then DELETE, the command DELETE would show up on
the status line instead of the item SENTENCE. In addition, the command
DELETE would persist instead of the item SENTENCE.