Canon Cat Reference Manual page 9

Making
a
correction:
In
(
I
)
you
have
jwt
moved
the
cursor
to
the
"s" in
"stencil"
by leaping
or
creeping, so the cursor
is
nnrrow on "s"
.
In
(2)
you
press
[ERASE]
t]rice
and
"st"
disappears
(ifyoupressed
leetsel
again
"e"
would disap-
pear
). In (3) you
make
the
correction
by typing
"red
p" ;
"encil"
moves
ahead. The cursor is now
wide
because
you
have
been typing.
I
Wide Cursor
Typing or
inserting text
by
using
a
cornmand always
makes the cursor
wide. The
cursor
is
wide when
the
highlight
is
on one character,
and
the
blinking
cursor
is one
character position forward from
it.
If
the
cursor
is
wide and
you
press [ERASE], the cursor
and
highlight
move back-
ward
together, erasing
each
highlighted
character
as
they
go.
This closely
resembles backspacing on
a
typewriter.
Extended
Cursor
The cursor is
extended
when two or more
characters
are
highlighted.
Extended
cursor
and extended highlight
mean the
same
thing.
Pressing both LEAP
keys
after
a
leap
causes the
highlight to
extend,
covering
all
characters
between the
beginning
and the end
of
the leap.
Extending
the
highlight allows you to
show the Cat some
text
you
want to
affect.
For example, pressing
[ERASE]
erases
all
the text
in
the extended
highlight.
Commands
generally affect only
the text
in
the extended
highlight.
The
highlight is now
extended.
The next step
is to
press
[ERASE]
,o
make
the highlighted
text vanish.
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When the Cursor and Highlight Separate
To
move text
from
place to place, you highlight
it,
then
leap
to
the new
location.
During the
leap, the
cursor
temporarily
separates
from
the highlighted
text.
The
highlighted text
leaps
to
the new
position of
the cursor
as
soon
as
you
release the
LEAP
key
.
See
MovingText,page
22, for more information.