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Dot commands

A dot command is part of normal text you type into the editor. A dot command is a complete line beginning with a dot, for example

.BD

If there's not a dot at the first column, the line will be printed and not interpretated.

If you want to use WSedit as an ASCII editor, you can use dot commands nevertheless. In the "File - Export" function, there's a dot command filter.

Dot commands aren't case sensitive. Some dot commands require parameters, for example

.TB10

will set a tabulator stop at column 10. You can leave a space between the dot command and the parameter.

A very useful dot command is a line beginning with a double dot:

..don't forget to add this and this!

This is a comment line which won't be printed. In the "File - Export" function, you can choose whether to export comment lines or not.

With Ctrl-KM, you can toggle a block content from comment line to normal text and reverse.

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