Linear select: Shift+Cursor Movement such as shift+page down, or shift+ctrl+right arrow (select till next word boundary).īox Select: Alt+selection. Key has a list of ASCII control characters and the corresponding caret notations. Most ASCII control characters can be inserted with Ctrl+Shift plus the corresponding letter. ShortcutĪdditionally once can select blocks of text (rectangular selections) using Alt+Shift and then moving the cursor either with with the mouse or by keyboard navigation. Here are some default shortcuts sorted on the left by shortcut and the right by command name. Select a block of text over a line and use the Tab key to indent (by either tab characters or spaces depending on your settings). The global output window (dockable) can be toggled with F8, and individual output windows can be toggled with Shift-F8. There are two types of output window (from 0.4 onwards). In such a case, you can use the two little arrows (next to the close document button) to scroll through them. If you edit many files at the same time, their tabs may not fit the window width. Note that you can hold down the Shift key with either of these combinations to traverse in the opposite direction. Depending on your options, this will either navigate through documents in Windows' own recent window order, or will use a Visual-Studio window stack system. To go to the next window, you can use either Ctrl-Tab or Ctrl-F6. So if you run a compile which shows you some output, and then you don't want to see the output window any more then just press escape until it goes away! Window Navigation The escape button can also be used to hide any output, find in files or find bar windows that are visible. The escape key can often be used to get you out of dialogs - it generally represents the pressing of the cancel button in these cases. You can find and customise all shortcuts in the options dialog. This help describes some of the default keyboard shortcuts used by PN2.

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