If you fix a general quadrilateral, you fix the coordinates of every point in the affine chart of that quadrilateral. See Bumcroft, Modern Projective Geometry, chapter 3, section I or Hartshorne, Foundations of Projective Geometry. If you permute the order of points in the quadrilateral, you move around which points lie in the affine chart, covering the whole plane.
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