The TE (text entry) line command allows you to powertype. When using this command, the display is filled with blank lines. The line number field normally on the left of the display disappears, so that you can type all of your data as if it were one continuous line. Because the editor is doing the formatting, you can continue typing and ignore the wrap around on the display. Any explicit cursor movement is interpreted as your personal formatting and results in embedded blanks.

The editor assumes that you are typing text as paragraphs. If you explicitly move the cursor down and leave a blank line, the editor assumes that the blank line should be there. The text that follows the blank line is consequently a new paragraph. Similarly, if you leave a specified number of blanks between words, the editor leaves them there. Also, if you tab to the beginning of the next line before completing the current line, the editor does not flow these sentences together. Remember that skipping a line specifies the start of a new paragraph.

When you press Enter, the text is flowed in the same manner as the TF (text flow) line command, except that it uses the bounds as the right and left sides of the paragraphs.