Hi Steve,
Not sure your illustration came through in my reader, but
here's what I know BBEdit can do:
* Set Preferences -> Editor Defaults -> Auto-indent to selected. [x]
* tab or space in from the left margin, type <ul>
* hit return
BBEdit duplicates the leading tabs and spaces leading up to the <ul>
and you're ready to type the <li> or tab once and type the <li>.
Down-arrow in BBEdit (and I believe all reasonable Mac programs, hehe)
attempts to take you to the same column as you just left. So if
your file looks like this:
123456^8910 Line 1
123v
123456v8910 Line 3
With your cursor at "^" in line 1, typing down arrow will move to
the "v" in line 2 and 3 as you move down.
There are, alas, serious differences between Mac and Windows on moving
around files with keyboard commands. It will benefit you to start using
the Mac commands because they work almost everywhere (MS Word is the
main exception I struggle with.)
The commands I use all the time are summarized as:
Left/right arrow = move 1 char
Up/Down arrow = move 1 line
Option + Left/right arrow = move 1 word
Option + Up/Down arrow = move to top/bottom of window (not file!)
Command + Left/right arrow = to beginning / end of line
Command + Up/Down arrow = move to top/bottom of FILE
shift + any of the above = Extend selection that far, in that direction
Home, End, Page Up and Page down in BBEdit do not move the cursor at
all(!) They just scroll the file within the window.
Once you play with it for a while it all seems nice and logical. Well,
I think so anyway. :-)
All the best!
Bruce
As BBEdit-Talk List wrote...
>Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:13:36 +0100
>From: Steve Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Cursor movement
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>computer.local>
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>In a Windows editor I have used in the past cursor movement up=20
>or down will return to the start point on the previous line.=20
>This is best illustrated by example...
>
> <ul>
> <li><a href=3D"">Home</a></li>
> <li><a href=3D""></a></li>
> <li><a href=3D""></a></li>
> </ul>
>
>If I enter some text in the first item in the list and press the=20
>down arrow it would be great to return to the same start point=20
>on the next line.
>
>Is there any way to make BBEdit adopt that behaviour?
>--=20
>Regards,
>
>Steve Hodgson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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