Keyboard Operation


The transmit buffer for fldigi is type ahead which means that you can be typing text while the program is sending an earlier part of your transmitted message.  The text widget used for this purpose does not currently have cut and paste capability.  So you will be correctly text by the backspace key only.  This will be probably change for a future revision to the code.

Newly entered text appears in black and text which has been transmitted is changed to red.  You can backspace into the red area.  When you do and the modem in use supports the BS character it will be sent to the receiving station.  If you monitor PSK and MFSK signals you will often find operators backspacing over previously sent text.  It's probably just as easy to just send XXX and retype that part of the message, but we have gotten used to word processors, email, etc. that allow us to send perfect (right) text, so we expect our digital modems to do the same.  Lets see, what was that prosign often used in CW for oooops.

All of the alpha numeric keys perform as you would expect, entering text into the transmit buffer.  There is one very important exception:
the caret "^" symbol.  This is used in the macro expansion routine and also used by the transmit buffer evaluator.  A ^r into receive mode.  So you can enter the ^r (carat followed by the r) at the end of your transmit buffer and when the sent character cursor (red chars) gets to that point the program will clear the text and return to the receive mode.

You can load the transmit buffer with any ASCII Text file of your choice.  Merely right click in the buffer window and select from the pop-up menu.  You can also short cut to the ^r from this popup.

Many ops (including me) do not like to be tied to mouse.  The fldigi text widget supports some short cuts to make your life easier:

Function Keys

Keys F1 through F10 are used to invoke the macro F1 - F10.  If you press the Alt button on the macro button bar the F1 - F10 keys correspond to macro F11 - F20.  You can also invoke a macro by pressing the corresponding button with the mouse.  Ctl-F1 through Ctl-F10 will open up a macro editor for that macro key.
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