Chapter IV: THE DISPLAY

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1: Introduction to the Display

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Nearly every aspect of the display can be controlled. There are commands to manipulate the editing windows, menus, colors, and more.

One useful feature of the display is that drawing can be aborted by typing the interrupt key (Ctrl-C on UNIX, CMDC on Windows, CMD-. on the Macintosh; see section 1-9). This helps if a long and complex display operation begins that need not finish.

Electric is able to display multiple editing windows, and these windows can be subdivided repeatedly. Another item of note is that there are no scroll bars in the editing windows (because Electric windows extend infinitely in all directions). Use the panning commands to shift the window contents.


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