Moving the insertion point with the arrow keys
Praise be to the Apple Developer Connection's zen-master revelations: "The keyboard's primary use is to enter text."
Indeed! But here's another one of those "How could I have lived before this?" set of non-obvious productivity tips: use can also
use the keyboard to navigate your text documents:
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Key |
Moves insertion point |
|---|---|
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Right Arrow |
One character to the right |
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Left Arrow |
One character to the left |
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Up Arrow |
To the line above, to the nearest character boundary at the same horizontal location |
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Down Arrow |
To the line below, to the nearest character boundary at the same horizontal location |
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Option–Right Arrow |
To the end of current word, then to the end of the next word |
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Option–Left Arrow |
To the beginning of the current word, then to the beginning of the previous word |
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Option–Up Arrow |
To the beginning of the current paragraph, then to the beginning of the previous paragraph |
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Option–Down Arrow |
To the end of the current paragraph, then to the end of the next paragraph (not to the blank line after the |
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Command–Right Arrow |
To the next semantic unit, typically the end of the current line, then the end of the next line |
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Command–Left Arrow |
To the previous semantic unit, typically the beginning of the current line, then the previous unit |
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Command–Up Arrow |
Upward in the next semantic unit, typically the beginning of the document |
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Command–Down Arrow |
Downward in the next semantic unit, typically the end of the document |