On Jul 7, 2024, at 8:38 PM, Tom Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I love tidbits like this, it's as interesting as reading some of the release > notes :] > > >> On 2024-07-06, at 13:11, Rich Siegel <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I use Option-left/right arrow to jump across words very frequently in >>> BBEdit and everything else I edit text with. >> >> BBEdit's behavior predates the macOS intrinsic behavior by a couple of >> decades; there's an argument to be made that the upstarts got it wrong. :-)
Back when bits were scarce (a floppy disk was plenty of storage), and dinosaurs roamed the earth, there were several development tools in common use on Mac OS, with names like “Think Pascal”, and “Think C”, and “Macintosh Programmer’s Workbench”, and CodeWarrior, and (of course) BBEdit (and others) Many of us used more than one of them, and they all had subtly different behaviors for keyboard shortcuts and navigation. Some of us lobbied for all of them to behave the same way - that’s where the (unintuitive, but oh-so-useful) Cmd-F (ok that’s intuitive), Cmd-G, Cmd-H, Cmd-E command-key equivalents came from. The start-of-line/end-of-line/start of file/end of file/next word/previous word/and many more behaviors were discussed heatedly about the same time. Also the ones that scroll the window w/o changing the insertion point. — Marshall P.S. One of the reasons that I love BBEdit’s shell worksheets is that I can move around in the window w/o thinking about it - instead of remembering whatever the shell provides. Ctl-E to move to end of line? -- This is the BBEdit Talk public discussion group. If you have a feature request or believe that the application isn't working correctly, please email "[email protected]" rather than posting here. Follow @bbedit on Mastodon: <https://mastodon.social/@bbedit> --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/bbedit/69D12DBD-CDA1-4FE7-B174-2A676AE5E8FA%40gmail.com.
