Editing Modes

As with the full-screen editor, you can work with the editor in two basic modes:
  • edit mode
  • editor-input mode

After having invoked the context editor, your terminal is in context editor mode. You can enter commands to move the line pointer and to locate, insert, add, or replace data. The INPUT command puts your terminal into editor-input mode. Editor input mode is indicated by the message MORE INPUT?.

In editor-input mode, you can only enter data. Each line that you enter is added to the file at the position of the line pointer. One 80-character line is created from each input line. To insert a blank line in a file, type at least one space and press ENTER (or the carriage-return key).

You end editor-input mode by entering a null line. The message INPUT MODE ENDED indicates that you are back in edit mode.

If a null line is entered in edit mode, it has the same effect as the NEXT command.