![]() If you want to bring back the search toolbar without the full search panel, right-click again on any toolbar or the main menu and select Search again. When both the search toolbar and search panel are invisible, the Multi-Line Search Panel makes both visible as usual, but using Multi-Line Search Panel again will hide both the search toolbar and search panel again. When the search toolbar is visible but the full search panel is not, you can hide the search toolbar by right-clicking on any toolbar or the main menu and selecting Search. You can switch back to using the search toolbar only by using Multi-Line Search Panel again. You can switch to using the full search panel by selecting Multi-Line Search Panel in the Search menu. ![]() When you start EditPad for the first time, only the search toolbar is visible. It also incorporates the search toolbar with all the search and replace commands, but without the two small edit boxes. The full search panel has two large multi-line edit controls for entering the search term and the replacement text. It has two small edit boxes for entering a short single-line search term and replacement text. The search toolbar provides all of EditPad’s search and replace commands. When used by itself, the search toolbar is docked to the bottom of EditPad’s window. Some of them will take some getting used to, but will eventually save you quite some time.Search|Multi-Line Search Panel Search|Multi-Line Search PanelĮditPad provides two search interfaces. If you’re used to the old WordStar keyboard shortcuts, you can enable those via Options|Preferences|Keyboard.įor an overview of all the editing key combinations, select Keyboard Shortcuts in EditPad Pro’s Help menu. The advantage over using copy and paste is that the selection you are moving or duplicating is readily visible in EditPad Pro, while you may not remember what you last copied to the clipboard. If you enable persistent selections in Options, Preferences, Editor, you can easily move and duplicate text with the Ctrl+D and Ctrl+M shortcuts. When you duplicate a line, the text cursor moves to the duplicate, keeping the same column position. It is often faster to duplicate a line and then edit the duplicate, than to retype mostly similar text. The difference between the Tab key method and the Block menu items is that the Block menu uses the “block indent” setting from Options, Preferences, File Types, while the Tab key uses the “tab size” setting.Ĭtrl+Alt+Y and Shift+Ctrl+Alt+Y are quick ways to delete and duplicate lines. Although the text cursor will jump to the end of the (shorter) line, the rectangular selection will maintain its width.Ī quick way to indent or unindent a block of lines, is to (partially) select them, and then press Tab or Shift+Tab on the keyboard. Then press the right arrow key until you’ve reached the rightmost column you want to select. If the lines in the rectangular selection are of irregular length, hold down the Alt key and press the down arrow key until you’ve reached the longest line. The block menu will warn you, but the Alt-key method will not. This only works when word wrap is off, and when using a fixed-pitch font such as Courier New. ![]() To make a rectangular or column selection without using the Block menu, hold down the Alt key on the keyboard while making the selection. You can disable this in Options, Preferences, Editor. When the cursor reaches the edge of the screen, it will stay visible if you continue scrolling. To quickly scroll the text without moving the text cursor and without moving your hands away from the keyboard, hold down Ctrl while pressing the up or down arrow keys. ![]() To delete the start or the end of the current line, press Shift+Ctrl+Backspace or Shift+Ctrl+End. To delete the start or the end of the current word, press Ctrl+Backspace or Ctrl+End. To jump to the next or previous word, hold down the Ctrl key while pressing the left or right arrow keys. To select everything from the current position of the text cursor to the start or end, press Shift+Ctrl+Home or Shift+Ctrl+End. To move to the start or end of the document, press Ctrl+Home or Ctrl+End. In this tips and tricks section, I will explain you some of the more special shortcuts, which are not often found in other text editors. You can keep your hands on the keyboard, and do in a few keystrokes what would require many keystrokes in other editors. With a bit of practice and experience, using these key combinations will make text editing much faster. I mean editing commands, such as holding the Shift key down while pressing the arrow keys to select some text. I don’t mean the keyboard shortcuts you can assign to menu items in Options|Preferences|Keyboard. Much of EditPad Pro’s editing power and convenience lies in the many keyboard shortcuts it supports. ![]()
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