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Introduction
- Visual Turing has a powerful editor for the "graph-program"
that supports multiple levels of UNDO and the classical operations CUT-COPY-PASTE.
Any operation you made in the editor - moving or inserting instructions
or arrows -has a visual feed-back. You can multiple select the objects
in the editor for moving or "clipboarding" them. Any instruction,
arrow, machine etc. has a context menu and a properties dialog which allow
you to quick-edit the attributes of the specified object. You can get the
context-menu by clicking the right button over the desired object. For
the properties, select the Properties option from the context menu
or double-click the object if it is instruction or arrow. When you use
the properties dialog you can fix this on the frame (a) with a nail or
let it be free (b). If the dialog is fixed, the losing of the focus doesn't
close it - something like in Open Motif. The dialog has instant effect
on the edited object.

- All the operations for editing the graph are available on the main
toolbar. You can see what does every button by when you "fly"
over it with the mouse. A longer explanation of the command is shown on
the status bar.

- For the ease of the editing process, you can toggle a grid - use the
View/Grid menu option