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Insertion point may refer to: Cursor (computers), an indicator for a point where input is inserted into a display device; Landing zone, a military term used for the ...
The caret symbol can be written just below the line of text for a punctuation mark at low line position, such as a comma, or just above the line of text as an inverted caret (U+02C7 ˇ CARON) for a character at a higher line position, such as an apostrophe, or in either position to indicate insertion of a letter, word or phrase; [3] the ...
The cursor for the Windows Command Prompt (appearing as an underscore at the end of the line). In most command-line interfaces or text editors, the text cursor, also known as a caret, [4] is an underscore, a solid rectangle, or a vertical line, which may be flashing or steady, indicating where text will be placed when entered (the insertion point).
The original 1963 version of the ASCII standard used the code point 0x5E for an up-arrow ↑. However, the 1965 ISO/IEC 646 standard defined code point 0x5E as one of five available for national variation, [ a ] with the circumflex ^ diacritic as the default and the up-arrow as one of the alternative uses. [ 5 ]
A spreadsheet character-based word processor on a low-resolution screen may similarly scroll in all directions, character-by-character or line-by-line, maintaining a small margin which the caret never enters in order to show the user what text or cells lie directly ‘ahead’ of or ‘behind’ the edit point and prevent them from ‘working ...
The term insertion symbol has more than one meaning,, when using a cursor (user interface), it is (usually) a vertical bar indicating where text being typed will be inserted; a caret (proofreading) is a V-shaped grapheme, usually inverted and sometimes extended, used to indicate that additional material needs to be inserted at this point in the ...
The user selects a location for insertion by some method, typically by clicking at the desired insertion point. A paste operation takes place which visibly inserts the clipboard text at the insertion point. (The paste operation does not typically destroy the clipboard text: it remains available in the clipboard and the user can insert ...
Modern word processing applications operate in insert mode by default, but can still be switched to overtype mode by pressing the Insert key. Some applications indicate overtype mode with a letter-width cursor box, as opposed to the standard narrow cursor; however, others use the narrow cursor for both modes, and indicate overtype with an "OVR" indicator in the status bar.