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12 <h1 tag="text-area text-field editing">Editing Text Fields</h1>
16 &dactyl.appName; provides several ways to edit text areas or input fields.
17 After switching focus to a text field, Insert mode or Text Edit mode is
18 activated, depending on your <o>insertmode</o> settings. You can also
19 use an <link topic="'editor'">external editor</link>.
22 <h2 tag="insert-mode insert">Insert mode</h2>
25 In Insert mode, all keys except for those described in the
26 <link topic="i-map-index">index</link> are passed directly to &dactyl.host;.
30 <h2 tag="text-edit-mode text-edit">Text Edit mode</h2>
33 Text Edit mode provides basic Vim-like text editing. It can be entered
34 from Insert mode by pressing <k name="C-t" mode="I"/> or started directly
35 when a text area is focused if <o>insertmode</o> is unset. See the
36 <link topic="t-map-index">index</link> for a list of currently supported
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