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- Alpha allows you to customize the keystrokes you use to invoke editor
- functions. There are basically three different ways editor functions can
- be invoked:
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- • Directly via Alpha menus.
- • Via the 'Execute' function (in the Utils menu by default).
- • Through key combinations other than menu equivalents. These
- combinations include function keys and the numeric keypad.
-
- It is the last option that we are concerned with here. By default, Alpha
- has well over 100 different key bindings, far more than you would ever want
- to memorize. However, the bindings are there only for your convenience. You
- don't need to use any of them, but many people find that using the mouse
- for common editing functions seriously slows them down.
-
- The following is a list of some of the most commonly used key bindings in
- Alpha's default setup:
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- Help
- ===========================================================================
- 'help' invoke Alpha help
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- Moving the Cursor
- ===========================================================================
- left-arrow or control-b backward character
- right-arrow or control-f forward character
- up-arrow or control-p previous-line
- down-arrow or control-n next-line
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- command-left-arrow or option-b backward one word
- command-right-arrow or option-f forward one word
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- control-left-arrow or control-a beginning of line
- control-right-arrow or control-e end of line
- control-up-arrow or 'home' beginning of window
- control-down-arrow or 'end' end of window
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- 'pgup' move one page backward
- 'pgdn' move one page forward
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-
- Selecting Text
- ===========================================================================
- shift-left-arrow extend selection one char left
- shift-right-arrow extend selection one char right
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- shift-up-arrow extend selection one line up
- shift-down-arrow extend selection one line down
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- shift-command-left-arrow extend selection one word left
- shift-command-right-arrow extend selection one word right
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- control-h select next word
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- shift-control-left-arrow select to beginning of line
- shift-control-right-arrow select to end of line
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- Deleting Text
- ===========================================================================
- 'del' or control-d delete forward char
- 'delete' delete backward char
- option-d delete forward word
- option-h delete backward word
- control-k delete to end of line
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-
- Windows
- ===========================================================================
- F5 previous window
- F6 next window
- F7 tile windows
- F8 exchange previous window w/ current
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