User's Guide

Part II. Tutorials

Chapter 6. Using Character-Mode ISQL

If you make a spelling mistake, you can correct it using the following keys:

Cursor Leftmoves the cursor left over top of any characters already typed.

Cursor Rightmoves the cursor right.

Homemoves the cursor to the start of the line.

Endmoves the cursor past the last character of the line.

Instoggles Insert mode. When Insert mode is on, the cursor is different (usually fatter), and any characters typed will be inserted where the cursor is, pushing characters to the right of the cursor further to the right.

Deldeletes the character at the cursor, and moves the rest of the line back to fill the vacant position.

Backspacedeletes the character immediately to the left of the cursor. If this key is pressed at the beginning of a line, it will join the current line to the previous one.

Ctrl+Enderases from the cursor position to the end of the line.

Entermoves the cursor to the beginning of the next line.

Cursor Down    moves the cursor down one line. If you are on the last line of the command window and there are more lines below the window, the text will scroll up one line so that you can see the next line.

Cursor Up    moves the cursor up one line. If you are on the first line of the command window and there are more lines above, the text will scroll down one line so that you can see the previous line.

Esc clears the entire command from the command window.

Shift+CursorUp, Shift+CursorDown, Shift+PgUp, Shift+PgDn used to mark an area (set of lines). This can also be done by pressing the left mouse button and holding it down while you drag the mouse over the lines to be marked.

Ctrl+X cuts the marked area to the edit clipboard. The lines are removed from the current position and can be pasted back anywhere using the Ctrl+V key combination.

Ctrl+V pastes the contents of the edit clipboard into position following the current line.

Ctrl+C copies the marked area to the edit clipboard. This is different than the Ctrl+X key combination in that it does not delete the marked area. There are also items in the Edit menu that can be used instead of these key combinations.

The following keys are also useful shortcut keys, but they will only work on newer keyboards.

Alt+Ins insert a new line after the current line.

Alt+Del delete the current line.

Commands are executed by pressing the execute key (F9). The right mouse button also executes the current command.

Multiple commands can be entered at once by separating them with semicolons. Commands can be stored to an ASCII file or loaded from an ASCII file by choosing Save or Open from the File menu.