"home" should not be toggle...

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"home" should not be toggle...

Post by philiptdotcom »

The "home" key should NOT be a toggle to go back and forth between the beginning of the line and the beginning of the non-whitespace in the line, because it makes its behavior inconsistent.

Now, it's impossible (so far as I can tell) to execute ANY DEFINITIVE set of keystrokes that GUARANTEES that I'll be at the beginning of a line (without me visually checking the location of the cursor).

The reason this is important (and my previous comment RE: needing the option to DISABLE the "non-whitespace"-finding effect of the "home" key) is that a very frequent thing I do is to MOVE A LINE OF CODE via (e.g., in WordPad) BOL/Shift-DownArrow/Cut, move cursor with up/down arrows, Paste.

There's seemingly no definitive way to do this (e.g., an exact set of keystrokes that can be "memorized" by my FINGERS) in TextPad.

Am I missing something here?

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Post by Bob Hansen »

:idea: Maybe keep all your thoughts on this in the same Subject vs. making multiple Subjects on the same topic?...just a thought to help stay organized here.
Hope this was helpful.............good luck,
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Post by MudGuard »

One solution is:
Record a macro which goes to column 1
(Search, Goto, select Column and 1)
and assign the key you want to it.
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