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Moving the Cursor and Text During Animation

Note: This topic applies to UNIX environments (remote development) only.

You can use several keys to move the cursor through the displayed code. You can also change the portion of text displayed on the screen.

Some of these keys are symbolic key names which might not be present on your keyboard.

Key Name Function Default Key/Keystroke
cursor-left Moves the cursor left one character position cursor-left
cursor-right Moves the cursor right one character position cursor-right
cursor-up Moves the cursor up one line; with Scroll Lock on moves the text down one line cursor-up
cursor-down Moves the cursor down one line; with Scroll Lock on moves the text up one line cursor-down
Tab Moves the cursor to the next tab position to the right; tabs are set every four positions in columns 1 through 76 Tab
Backtab Moves the cursor to the next tab position to the left Backtab
Enter Moves the cursor to column 1 on the next line in Animator; with Scroll Lock on, moves the text up one line Enter
Home Moves the cursor to column 1 of the current line in Animator; pressing Home a second time moves the cursor to column 1 of the top line; pressing Home a third time moves the cursor to the beginning of the file Home
End Moves the cursor to the end of the current line; pressing End a second time moves the cursor to the bottom of the screen; pressing End a third time moves the cursor to the end of the file End
Page-Up Displays the screen of program text preceding the current screen KEY_PPAGE or Ctrl+U
Page-Down Displays the screen of program text following the current screen KEY_NPAGE or Ctrl+D
Top-of-text Moves immediately to the top of the program Ctrl+T
Bottom-of-text Moves immediately to the end of the program Ctrl+V
Up-10-screens Moves (10 x source screen size) lines up the program KEY_SR or Ctrl+B
Down-10-screens Moves (10 x source screen size) lines down the program KEY_SF or Ctrl+F
F1 through F10 Function key 1 through Function key 10 KEY_F(0-10)
Escpe Escape Esc
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