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From: singer@endor.harvard.edu (Richard Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: LightspeedC Arrow Key Tricks
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Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 09:13:55 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 20 09:13:55 1987
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Organization: THINK Technologies, Inc., Bedford, MA
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Keywords: LightspeedC, arrow, cursor, VI


	A number of people on this newsgroup have requested as a possible
enhancement to the LightspeedC editor the ability to perform movements
of the cursor similar to those available in VI. Since I'm an Emacs user
myself, I am not familiar with VI, but I mentioned these requests to
Mike Kahl.
	
	His response is that there *are* such shortcuts built into 
LightspeedC's editor. It's not by any means a complete subset of the VI
command set, but here's the summary:

	The left, right, up, and down arrow keys move the insertion point
in the appropriate direction. When used in conjunction with the Shift key,
the selection is extended in that direction.

	If you press Option and an arrow key, the insertion point will be
moved to the extreme in that direction; for example, Option-Down Arrow
will move the insertion point to the end of the document, and Option-Left
Arrow will move the insertion point to the beginning of the current line.

	The Option and Shift keys can be used with an arrow key to
do extended selections; for example: Option Shift Right Arrow will
select everything from the current insertion point to the end of
the current line; Option Down Arrow will select everything to the end
of the current file.

Hope these are useful.

		--Rich




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