At 09/22/2002 11:17 PM, Philip Aker wrote: >That depends. Text editors like CodeWarrior, BBEdit, and Alpha don't do >that by default because they observe some long standing conventions >about document navigation keys. You can change the default bindings >though. My Text Editor plugin uses these conventions as well and they >are listed in the PDF documentation for Text Editor on my site in case >you'd like to read up on them. The behavior you describe is standardly >attained by Option-DownArrow or Option-UpArrow key combos whereas >PageUp and PageDown keys only change the view (not the selection). >CodeWarrior has outstanding "partial word" navigation/selection >features invoked by Control-Arrow/Control-Shift-Arrow.
Except windows keyboards do not have an option key. >Applications like word processors and spread sheets may have slightly >different conventions. I haven't used M$ Word for years but I think it >has defaults like you expect. > >I'd have to say though (since my first word processor was M$ Word), >that using the Command/Option/Shift-ArrowKey conventions are more >motion efficient and thus the faster. I doubt it. Using the 8 direction keys, 4 arrows, pgup, pgdn, home and end, in combination with shift and ctrl, you can move anywhere in the document by pressing, at the most, 2 keys. Phil Daley < AutoDesk > http://www.conknet.com/~p_daley _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
