Simple shorthands don't have any parameters. It just uses a short name to represent the full
text which consists of more characters. Examples are given below,
|
shorthand |
full text |
|
asap |
as soon as possible |
|
gtg |
got to go |
| mailtemp |
Dear
sir or madam, |
|
syl |
see you later |
You can include special control symbols in shorthand full text. Their meanings are listed in the following table.
|
control
symbol |
meaning |
|
\cr |
simulate carriage return key to begin a new line |
|
\lt |
simulate left arrow key to move cursor backward |
|
\rt |
simulate right arrow key to move cursor forward |
|
\up |
simulate up arrow key to move cursor upward |
|
\dn |
simulate down arrow key to move cursor downward |
|
\pu |
simulate page up key to move a page backward |
|
\pd |
simulate page down key to move a page forward |
|
\hm |
simulate home key to move cursor to start of line |
|
\en |
simulate end key to move cursor to end of line |
|
\bk |
simulate backspace to delete the last entered char |
\dlxxx |
delay for xxxx/10 seconds |
Generally you have no
need to use '\cr' since you can directly input carriage return to generate
multiple-line text in the
shorthand editor since Ver 2.0.
This type of shorthands provides more flexibility in automatic text
generation. It's esp. useful for programmers to auto-generate a piece of
well-formatted code. Look at the following example,
for[i,10]
Where 'for' is the name of the shorthand, '[' and ']' mark the beginning and end of the parameters. 'i' is the first
parameter, '10' is the second parameter. Assume we have define its full text as,
for (int %1=0;%1<%2;%1++)\cr{\cr}\up\cr
%1, %2 represent the first and second parameter. In shorthand expansion, they'll be
replaced by the actual values, which are "i" and "10" in the
above example. You can have 9 parameters in total, i.e., %1 to %10. If you want to
use a '%' symbol for its literal meaning, use '%%' instead. The special control
symbols (\cr, \up) are to format the code block so that the final generated text
looks like the
following,
for (int i=0;i<10;i++)
{
[Caret]
}
The caret will be located at the middle of two brackets ready for
you to input the code contained the loop.