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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.

Matching Braces

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.