2 questions about MS PWB (or M editor)

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From: Gary Kipnis
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 1990 15:23

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Hi, I have two questions about MS PWB:

Question 1:
How does one force PWB editor to shift text right when TAB key is pressed.
Only the cursor is repositioned in both the insert and overwrite modes.
The manual talks about hard and soft tab switches, but they don't seem to
make any difference.

Question 2:
How does join lines?  In vi you can just press 'J' and the beginning of next
line is moved to the end of the current line.  In other editors and 
wordprocessors you can just keep pressing delete key and the lines will join, 
but in PWB editor (same in M editor) the delete key doesn't join the two
lines.

thanks for any info,

gary

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Subject: 2 questions about MS PWB (or M editor)
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