Has page up/down changed, or is it me?

Rick Jones · Post by **Rick Jones** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 2:11 pm

I not long ago updated to 4.7.1 from 4.6, and I've just noticed what I think is different behaviour of the page-up & page-down keys.

I'm sure that previously, page up/down operations would relocate the cursor and keep it on the screen. Now they appear to behave the same as the scroll bars, leaving the cursor where it is in the text.

This makes keyboard-only use much more difficult, because you page through to find where you want to be, then as soon as you hit a typing or arrow key, the display jumps back to where you were. You have to grab the mouse and click on the page to get the cursor into view. Moving through text by holding down the arrow keys is no substitute!

I've looked for a config. option to control this behaviour but I can't find anything.

Any suggestions?

Post by **helios** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 2:37 pm

The following extract is taken from the TextPad Help files.

Why doesn't Page Up/Down move the cursor:

When the Scroll Lock key is on, the Page Up/Down keys behave the same way as when you scroll with the mouse on the scroll bar - i.e. the cursor is not moved. You can then quickly get back to a known position in the document by pressing one of the arrow keys.

I hope this helps.

Rick Jones · Post by **Rick Jones** » Wed Oct 01, 2003 6:57 pm

Ah - thanks!

Sorry it was a case of RTFM, I'd just never realised that feature existed before - learn something every day :-/

Cheers