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"home" should not be toggle...

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 5:45 am
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?

Aloha,
pt@philipt.com

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:39 am
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.

Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2005 8:33 am
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.