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The Windows menu

The Windows menu

The Windows menu contains operations for managing the size and position of windows, switching and defining editor modes, and gives access to an ASCII character set panel and two temporary editor buffers.

ENTRIES IN THE WINDOWS MENU

New view on text..., Alt N
Opens a new, read only, view on the text in the current edit window.

Smaller font, Num pad -
Shrink the font of an editor window.
Larger font, Num pad +
Enlarge the font of an editor window.
Resize..., Ctrl Z
After selecting this entry, you can type a new size for a text window. The size should be entered as colsxrows where cols and rows are the new dimensions of the window. Both cols and rows may be omitted. Press return to revert to the original size as set in the size and gadgets panel.

Text window modes..., Shift Ctrl M
Open the text window modes panel that manages the individually defined parameter sets and triggering file masks for different editing modes.
Switch mode..., Ctrl S
Pops up a menu in which you can choose a new editing mode for the current text window.

Cycle windows, Ctrl Tab
Cycle through the open (mapped) Edith windows.
Tile vertically, Shift Ctrl V
Arrange the open (mapped) edit windows vertically stacked, covering the full screen.
Tile horizontally, Shift Ctrl H
Arrange the open (mapped) edit windows horizontally stacked, covering the full screen.

Cut/replace buffer, Shift Ctrl B
Open the cut buffer into a read-only browser window. The cut buffer and trash buffer can also be inspected by double clicking on the fragments displayed in the Editor master panel that is always open (usually as an icon) when the Edith server is running on your display.
Trash buffer, Shift Ctrl T
Open the trash buffer which stores previously deleted material, into a browser window.
ASCII/ISO table, Shift Ctrl A
Open the character set table panel.

Close all windows, Shift Ctrl W
Close all Edith windows (except the master panel, which is at most iconified).

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