section-editor shortcuts

[adisney]

Does anyone know of a list of all the keyboard shortcuts available for the section-editor? For example, you can highlight a block of text and then tab or shift-tab to move it left or right .... but who knew?

Would be especially interested if anyone knows how to comment out a block of text without right-clicking for the formatting menu.

Thanks
Anne Disney
Great Valley Technologies

 

[curly]

Hi Anne,

This is a list of shortcuts I am aware of (I hope it helps):

Navigation functionality:

Ctrl-Left Move to previous word
Ctrl-Right Move to next word
Ctrl-Up Move to previous procedure block
Ctrl-Down Move to next procedure block
Ctrl-Pg-Up Move to top of window
Ctrl-Pg-Down Move to bottom of window
Ctrl-Home Move to top of buffer
Ctrl-End Move to bottom of buffer
Ctrl-] Find matching []
​

Update functionality

Ctrl-Shift-U Uppercase word
Ctrl-Shift-L Lowercase word
​

Update selected block functioanality

Tab Indent
Shift-Tab UnIndent
Shift-F7 Shift Left
Shift-F8 Shift Right
​

Clipboard functionality

Ctrl-C Copy
Ctrl-Ins Copy
Ctrl-X Cut
Shift-Del Cut
Ctrl-V Paste
Shift-Ins Paste
Ctrl-E Cut text from 'cursor' to 'end of line'
Ctrl-K Copy word
Ctrl-Shift-K Cut text from 'cursor' to 'end of word'
Ctrl-Backspace Cut line
Ctrl-Shift-X Cut line; append it to clipboard
​

Find / Replace functionality

Ctrl-F Find GUI dialog box
Ctrl-G Find next
Ctrl-R Replace GUI dialog box
​

Selection functionality

Ctrl-A Select All
Ctrl-U Deselect
Ctrl-L Multiline selection
(Ctrl-L - start selection
up/down - change selection,
Ctrl-L - end selection)
Ctrl-B Block selection
(Ctrl-B -start selection
up/down/left/right - change selection,
Ctrl-B - end selection)
​

History (Undo/Redo) functionality

Ctrl-Y Redo
Ctrl-Z Undo
Alt-Backspace Undo
​

Repeat functioanlity (very useful with tag based files eg HTML)

Ctrl-Shift-, Repeat previous word
Ctrl-Shift-. Repeat next word
Ctrl-Shift-Space Extend repeat phrase
​

I do not know direct shortcut for Comment/Uncomment however you always could hold Alt and type EFC (to comment) or EFO (to uncomment). That would use window's menu shortcuts: Alt-E =Edit; Alt-F =Format Selection; Alt-C =Comment or Alt-U =Uncomment.

Some of the shortcuts above do not work in procedure editor because Procedure editor re-maps some keys to a different functionality (eg Shift-F7 is re-mapped to "Previous Buffer").

regards
Marian

 

[lord_icon]

Dude,
The shortcuts are simply just those accepted by Windows, and created by M$. Gus and the PSC guys did an excellent job in compatability - Why reinvent the wheel??

 

[curly]

Dude,

You must have a different version of Windows than I do. My version doesn't support Block selections (Ctrl-B) and Line Selections (Ctrl-L) and Ctrl-E, Ctrl-K, Shift-F6, Shift-F7, Ctrl-Shift-Space, ...

:blush: My apologies to all owners of Lord Icon's version of Windows.

Marian

 

[adisney]

Thanks, Marian, very helpful!
Anne