Re: how does BBEdit do it? (was Re: A few issues...)

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From: Albert Davidson Chou (Al_Chou@CyberDude.com)
Date: 11 Mar 01, 08:09 EST


From: "Albert Davidson Chou" <Al_Chou@CyberDude.com>
Subject: Re: how does BBEdit do it? (was Re: A few issues...)

>At 9:31 AM -0800 3/10/01, Albert Davidson Chou wrote:

>

>>Not to beat a dead horse, but just out of curiosity, what _are_ Bare

>>Bones's key

>>sequences for this?  I wasn't able to figure it out trying for

>>myself in BBEdit

>>5.1.1, nor looking in its Apple Guide.

>

>Let's see if I can explain it. Click before 'C' at the beginning of 

>this sentence, hit <up><up><right><right> and you get a selection 

>from 'e' in "Apple" to 'l' in "Click". Same behavior that Alpha and 

>others have. The difference is that <left><left> contracts the 

>selection back to before 'C' in "Click". Hit <down><up><left> to 

>switch the active end and expand the selection to include the 'l' in 

>"Apple".



Ack!  Thphfft!  I'm a longtime user of both vi and EMACS, and the above still seems like an abomination.  But I guess it wouldn't hurt to implement the above behavior for the sake of BBEdit die-hards (as long as it isn't bound to any keys that are commonly used for something less abominable <g>).





Al

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Albert Davidson Chou



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