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Keyboard shortcuts

The following table lists some of the standard keyboard shortcuts available in the editor. Note that some shortcuts may differ depending on your keyboard layout. E.g. Ctrl+/ on an English keyboard may be Ctrl+' on a Swedish keyboard. But the same keys are still used.

Shortcut	Action
Home	Move cursor to the beginning of the line. Clicking twice will move the cursor to the first non-space character in the line.
End	Move cursor to the end the of line
Ctrl + Left	Move cursor to the previous word
Ctrl + Right	Move cursor to the next word
Ctrl + PgUp	Move cursor to the top of the page
Ctrl + PgDn	Move cursor to the bottom of the page
Ctrl + Up	Scroll up 1 line
Ctrl + Down	Scroll down 1 line
PgUp	Scroll up 1 page
PgDn	Scroll down 1 page
Ctrl + Home	Move to the beginning of the file
Ctrl + End	Move to the end of the file
Insert	Toggle Insert/Overwrite mode
Delete	Delete character or selection
Backspace	Delete previous character or selection
Tab	Move cursor to the nearest tab position or indent selection
Shift + Tab	Move cursor to the nearest tab position or unindent selection
Ctrl + LMouseButton	When clicking the mouse over a link in the document the editor opens a web browser or an email client.
	Is also used to make multiple selections.
Alt + LMouseButton	Toggle bookmark when you click in left margin.
Double mouse click	If over a brace char, all text inclosed will be selected including the braces. Otherwise the word under the cursor is selected.
Ctrl + Space	Open an auto completion list in the document. This only works if items are available in the syntax file (UserMenu section).
Ctrl + J	Open the class completion dialog.
Shift+Ctrl+H	Display hint window. Can be a parameter hint.
Shift + Ctrl + Space	Open the current tree view in the quickbar. You may have to set this manually in customize keyboard dialog.
Shift + F9	Toggle browser view on/off.
Ctrl + Mouse wheel Up/Down	Increase/Decrease the current font size.
Shift + Right mouse button	Click on the document tab to close it.

Some other useful functions

In the editor there are a few functions that might be helpful.

•Triple click with left mouse button will select the whole text line.

•Clicking the left mouse button on a selected text block, dragging the mouse to a different location and releasing the button, will move the text block to the new location (drag n' drop). If you just want to copy the text block, hold the Ctrl key while dragging the text.

•Smart paste can be a very useful feature when editing source code, as well as smart backspace and auto indent.