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Keyboard Navigation
These are the keyboard commands you can use to move around.
Line Wrap
All left/right caret movement will wrap from line to line. If you are at the end of a line and press > you will
go to the beginning of the next line. Go from line to line and paragraph to paragraph using left/right cursor movement.
Virtual Columns
All up/down caret movement holds a virtual column which is the column the cursor was on when the first up/down command
was entered. If the cursor needs to move in because it moved down to a shorter line, it will move back out if the next
line is longer. Go to the end of an action paragraph and move the cursor down past dialogue to another action line.
You will see the cursor move in to the end of the shorter lines and then back out to the same column on the longer lines.
Staying Visible
If you move the caret off the window, the script will scroll so that the caret remains visible. The only time the
caret will be invisible is when you use the scroll bars to reposition the screen.
Keyboard Commands
- > Move 1 character to the right.
- < Move 1 character to the left.
- \/ Move down 1 line. (Move selection down 1 if auto-prompt window is up.)
- /\ Move up 1 line. (Move selection up 1 if auto-prompt window is up.)
- PgDn Move down 1 screen (not page).
- PgUp Move up 1 screen.
- End Move to the end of the line.
- Home Move to the beginning of the line.
- CTRL > Move 1 word to the right.
- CTRL < Move 1 word to the left.
- CTRL \/ Move to the next paragraph.
- CTRL /\ Move to the previous paragraph.
- CTRL PgDn Move to the lower right corner of the screen.
- CTRL PgUp Move to the upper left corner of the screen.
- CTRL End Move to the end of the script.
- CTRL Home Move to the beginning of the script.
- CTRL M Center the screen on the cursor. (The cursor does not move, the screen is scrolled.)
- CTRL ALT PgDn Move to the next page.
- CTRL ALT PgUp Move to the previous page.
Mouse Caret Movement
You can use the mouse to move the cursor. Just move the mouse to where you want to place the caret and press the
left mouse button.
Scroll Bars
You can also use the scroll bars to move through the script. The scroll bar on the right is always there. A scroll
bar will appear at the bottom if the entire width of the script cannot fit on the screen. Both scroll bars let you
move throughout the document. The button in each scroll bar shows you what percentage of the script is presently visible.
Scroll Control
Click the arrow button at the end of the scroll bar to scroll a line. Click between the arrows and the button to
scroll a screen. Drag the button to move to any position. The script will be redrawn at the new position(s) as you
drag the scroll bar.
Keeping the Caret Visible
When you scroll the script, the caret stays at its present position in the script and will scroll off screen.
If after you scroll, you then use a key to move the caret, the script will scroll back to make the caret visible.
So after you scroll, click the mouse over the script to place the caret somewhere in the now visible part of the
script. (This is done so you can scroll and then use the mouse to select a large block of text.)
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