Came for the question, stayed for the history of such commands. We need BBEdit's Tidbit Tuesdays.
On Monday, July 8, 2024 at 12:44:19 AM UTC-4 Marshall Clow wrote: > 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/d83bd25b-24e1-40cd-b7f1-18fd5f5525b6n%40googlegroups.com.
