+----------------------------------+ When you start out for the first time | | the screen is blank as is the one at | | left. When you start typing, what | | you type appears on the screen as you | | are typing it. See what happens when +----------------------------------+ we type the word "Hi!" Typed: Hi! OK, we've typed "Hi!". +----------------------------------+ | Hi! | The screen now contains the word | | "Hi!". | | | | If we type some more, we should see +----------------------------------+ more appear on the screen. Let's see what happens. Typed: My name is Tommy Totoh +----------------------------------+ Well it looks like it still works. | Hi! My name is Tommy Totoh_ | What we have typed has appeared on | | the screen. | | Oops! Looks like we have typed the | | word "Tooth" wrong. Let's see how +----------------------------------+ we fix it. Typed: C-B We need to go backwards. Press the +----------------------------------+ control key and "B" together for the | Hi! My name is Tommy Totoh | control command "backwards". Now we | | are immediately following the mistake | | and we can rub out the two characters | | that we typed wrong. +----------------------------------+ Typed: Rubout Rubout OK, we've pressed rubout twice. +----------------------------------+ | Hi! My name is Tommy toh | See how the two characters vanished? | | | | Now we are ready to put the letters | | "ot" in there. +----------------------------------+ All we need to do is to type them. Typed: ot +----------------------------------+ | Hi! My name is Tommy Tooth | Well, that looks ok. Say, would'nt | | it be nice if the name were on a line | | all by itself? I think so! | | To do this, we want to go back two +----------------------------------+ words. (To the beginning of the name Tommy). Typed: ESC-B ESC-B +----------------------------------+ To do this, we press the ESCAPE key, | Hi! My name is Tommy Tooth | release it, and then press "B". This | | is called "ESCAPE backwards" and just | | as we used "control backwards" to | | move back a letter, we use ESC-B for +----------------------------------+ moving back by a word. Here, we had to do this twice since we needed to Typed: go back by two words. +----------------------------------+ | Hi! My name is | Finally, we type a carriage return | Tommy Tooth | which moves the rest of the line down | | to the beginning of the next line. | | +----------------------------------+