Thanks, all, for the flood of helpfulness! I didn't know about the CMD + LEFT / OPTION + RIGHT trick. Would definitely be simpler to just emulate those two keypresses and bind them to my HOME key. There is another level of complexity that I'd like to eventually add, which is supported by the Windows editors:
Firstly, the key has two functions. Pressed the first time, it goes to the "smarter" beginning of the line (insertion point before first non- whitespace character), but pressed a second time, it will jump to the start of the line as normal. Pressed again, back to the "smart" start of line, and so on. I don't think that'll be that tricky though, as I'd just have to put a conditional for the current location of the insertion point; if it's already at the smart location, go to column 0. Otherwise, go to the smart location. The next one is not so simple, I don't think? SHIFT + HOME will select to the beginning of the line (minus the leading whitespace). A second press of SHIFT + HOME will extend the selection to the beginning of the line, with whitespace. And again, a third press would deselect the leading whitespace, and so on. Maybe this is easier than I'm guessing, depending on how selections are made with AppleScript. I'll tinker around! Some solutions have already been posted, and they're helpful starts for sure. I'm surprised this functionality isn't an option in BBEdit already... Does every just use the two-key method to get to the first character of the line, or does it just not come up? Maybe I wouldn't miss it so much if I'd never had it in the first place. Haha. Thanks again! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "BBEdit Talk" discussion group on Google Groups. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to bbedit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a feature request or would like to report a problem, please email "supp...@barebones.com" rather than posting to the group.
