Chapter IV: THE DISPLAY

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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 character (CMD-. on the Macintosh, ^C on UNIX). This helps if a long and complex display operation begins that need not finish.

On some platforms (Macintosh, Windows), Electric is able to display multiple editing windows, whereas on other platforms (UNIX), only a single editing window appears. Regardless of the platform, editing windows can be subdivided to show many different facets. 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 described here to shift the window contents.


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