1. A general state, usually used wit
h an adjective describing t
he state. Use of t
he word "mode" rat
her t
han "state" implies t
hat t
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hat some activity c
haracteristic of t
hat state is being carried out. "No time to
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hesis mode." In its jargon sense, "mode" is most often attributed to people, t
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ht mode}, {demo mode}, {fireworks mode}, and {yoyo mode} also {c
hat}. 2. More tec
hnically, a mode is a special state t
hat certain user interfaces must pass into in order to perform certain functions. For example, in order to insert c
haracters into a document in t
he Unix editor "vi", one must type t
he "i" key, w
hic
h invokes t
he "Insert" command. T
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his command is to put vi into "insert mode", in w
hic
h typing t
he "i" key
has a quite different effect (to wit, it inserts an "i" into t
he document). One must t
hen
hit anot
her special key, "ESC", in order to leave "insert mode". Nowadays, modeful interfaces are generally considered
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=losing">losing but survive in quite a few widely used tools built in less enlig
htened times. [
href="module.php?name=Lexikon&file=search&eid=1&query=Jargon File">Jargon File] (1994-12-22)
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href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=4148">er ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=4150">era ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=4171">es ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=4174">ESC ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=4199">et ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=4319">extend ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=4497">fi ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=4520">file ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=4578">fireworks mode ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=4700">fo ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=4727">for ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=4940">function ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=5057">ge ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=5070">gen ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=5134">gh ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=5291">gr ] [ 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] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=10767">ro ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=10918">S ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=11009">SC ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=11010">sc ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=11150">se ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=11376">si ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=11651">so ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=11790">spec ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=11934">st ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=11990">state ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=12133">su ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=12359">T ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=12588">th ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=12721">to ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=12736">tool ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=12787">tr ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=12896">tt ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=12970">type ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=12986">ua ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=13008">ug ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=13030">um ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=13175">us ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=13188">user ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=13196">user interface ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=13310">ve ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=13366">vi ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=13820">word ] [ href="module.php?name=Lexikon&op=content&tid=14072">yoyo mode ]