Selections

 

 

 

Key or Key Sequence

 

Function

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shift+Up

 

Start or extend selection up one line.

 

 

 

Shift+Down

 

Start or extend selection down one line.

 

 

 

Shift+PgUp

 

Start or extend selection up one page.

 

 

 

Shift+PgDn

 

Start or extend selection down one page.

 

 

 

Ctrl+Shift+Home

 

Start or extend selection to top of buffer.

 

 

 

Ctrl+Shift+End

 

Start or extend selection to bottom of buffer.

 

 

 

Ctrl+X

 

Cut selected text.

 

 

 

Ctrl+C

 

Copy selected text to clipboard.

 

 

 

Ctrl+V

 

Paste clipboard.

Ctrl+Shift+V

 

List clipboards.

 

 

 

Different selection styles found in non-CUA compliant editors, such as Brief, are also provided. To use a different selection style, use the Selections Tab of the General Options dialog box (click Window Pref- erences, expand SlickEdit and click General in the tree, double-click the General setting).

Modifying Selected Text

After you select text, you can invoke a key or type a command that modifies the selected text. Use the in- formation in the following table to assist you when making modifications to selected text. When two com- mands are displayed, the first command is the command line version of the command, and the second is the graphical version of the command.

Table 6.5. Operations for Selected Text

Command

Key Sequence or Menu Item

Description

mou_click_copy

Ctrl+L

Drags and copies the selected

 

 

text. Click within the selected text

 

 

and hold the left button down

 

 

while moving the mouse to a new

 

 

location. Line selections are inser-

 

 

ted after the current line by de-

 

 

fault. If you want line selections

 

 

inserted before the current line,

 

 

 

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