File Navigation - Textadept

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# File Navigation

## Basic Movements

Textadept supports the key bindings you are accustomed to for navigating text fields on your platform. The arrow keys move the caret in a particular direction, `Ctrl+Left` and `Ctrl+Right` (`^⇠` and `^⇢` on Mac OSX | `^Left` and `^Right` in curses) move by words, `PgUp` and `PgDn` (`⇞` and `⇟` | `PgUp` and `PgDn`) move by pages, etc. Mac OSX and curses also support some Bash-style bindings like `^B`, `^F`, `^P`, `^N`, `^A`, and `^E`. A complete list of movement bindings is found in the “Movement” section of the key bindings list.

## Brace Match

By default, Textadept will highlight the matching brace characters under the caret : ‘(’, ‘)’, ‘[’, ‘]’, ‘{’, and ‘}’. Pressing `Ctrl+M` (`^M` on Mac OSX | `M-M` in curses) moves the caret to that matching brace.

## Bookmarks

You can place bookmarks on lines in buffers to jump back to them later. `Ctrl+F2` (`⌘F2` on Mac OSX | `F1` in curses) toggles a bookmark on the current line, `F2` jumps to the next bookmarked line, `Shift+F2` (`⇧F2` | `F3`) jumps to the previously bookmarked line, `Alt+F2` (`⌥F2` | `F4`) jumps to the bookmark selected from a list, and `Ctrl+Shift+F2` (`⌘⇧F2` | `F6`) clears all bookmarks in the current buffer.

## Goto Line

To jump to a specific line in a file, press `Ctrl+J` (`⌘J` on Mac OSX | `^J` in curses) and specify the line number in the prompt and press `Enter` (`↩` | `Enter`) or select `OK`.