6.14 Keyboard shortcuts

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6.14 Keyboard shortcuts

A lot of keyboard shortcuts used by the IDE are compatible with WordStar and should be well known to Turbo Pascal users.

Below are the following tables:

In table (6.4) some shortcuts for handling the IDE windows and Help are listed.
In table (6.5) the shortcuts for compiling, running and debugging a program are presented.
In table (6.6) the navigation keys are described.
In table (6.7) the editing keys are listed.
In table (6.8) lists all block command shortcuts.
In table (6.9) all selection-changing shortcuts are presented.
In table (6.10) some general shortcuts are presented, which do not fit in the previous categories.

Table 6.4:

General

Command	Key shortcut	Alternative

Help	F1
Goto last help topic	ALT-F1
Search word at cursor position in help	CTRL-F1
Help index	SHIFT-F1
Close active window	ALT-F3
Zoom/Unzoom window	F5
Move/Zoom active window	CTRL-F5
Switch to next window	F6
Switch to last window	SHIFT-F6
Menu	F10
Local menu	ALT-F10
List of windows	ALT-0
Active another window	ALT-¡DIGIT¿
Call grep utility	SHIFT-F2
Exit IDE	ALT-X

Table 6.5:

Compiler

Command	Key shortcut	Alternative

Reset debugger/program	CTRL-F2
Display call stack	CTRL-F3
Run til cursor	F4
Switch to user screen	ALT-F5
Trace into	F7
Add watch	CTRL-F7
Step over	F8
Set breakpoint at current line	CTRL-F8
Make	F9
Run	CTRL-F9
Compile the active source file	ALT-F9
Message	F11
Compiler messages	F12

Table 6.6:

Text navigation

Command	Key shortcut	Alternative

Char left	ARROW LEFT	CTRL-S
Char right	ARROW RIGHT	CTRL-D
Line up	ARROW UP	CTRL-E
Line down	ARROW DOWN	CTRL-X
Word left	CTRL-ARROW LEFT	CTRL-A
Word right	CTRL-ARROW RIGHT	CTRL-F
Scroll one line up	CTRL-W
Scroll one line down	CTRL-Z
Page up	PAGEUP	CTRL-R
Page down	PAGEDOWN
Beginning of Line	POS1	CTRL-Q-S
End of Line	END	CTRL-Q-D
First line of window	CTRL-POS1	CTRL-Q-E
Last line of window	CTRL-END	CTRL-Q-X
First line of file	CTRL-PAGEUP	CTRL-Q-R
Last line of file	CTRL-PAGEDOWN	CTRL-Q-C
Last cursor position	CTRL-Q-P

Table 6.7:

Edit

Command	Key shortcut	Alternative

Delete char	DEL	CTRL-G
Delete left char	BACKSPACE	CTRL-H
Delete line	CTRL-Y
Delete til end of line	CTRL-Q-Y
Delete word	CTRL-T
Insert line	CTRL-N
Toggle insert mode	INSERT	CTRL-V

Table 6.8:

Block commands

Command	Key shortcut	Alternative

Goto Beginning of selected text	CTRL-Q-B
Goto end of selected text	CTRL-Q-K
Select current line	CTRL-K-L
Print selected text	CTRL-K-P
Select current word	CTRL-K-T
Delete selected text	CTRL-DEL	CTRL-K-Y
Copy selected text to cursor position	CTRL-K-C
Move selected text to cursor position	CTRL-K-V
Copy selected text to clipboard	CTRL-INS
Move selected text to the clipboard	SHIFT-DEL
Indent block one column	CTRL-K-I
Unindent block one column	CTRL-K-U
Insert text from clipboard	SHIFT-INSERT
Insert file	CTRL-K-R
Write selected text to file	CTRL-K-W
Uppercase current block	CTRL-K-N

Table 6.9:

Change selection

Command	Key shortcut	Alternative

Mark beginning of selected text	CTRL-K-B
Mark end of selected text	CTRL-K-K
Remove selection	CTRL-K-Y
Extend selection one char to the left	SHIFT-ARROW LEFT
Extend selection one char to the right	SHIFT-ARROW RIGHT
Extend selection to the beginning of the line	SHIFT-POS1
Extend selection to the end of the line	SHIFT-END
Extend selection to the same column in the last row	SHIFT-ARROW UP
Extend selection to the same column in the next row	SHIFT-ARROW DOWN
Extend selection to the end of the line	SHIFT-END
Extend selection one word to the left	CTRL-SHIFT-ARROW LEFT
Extend selection one word to the right	CTRL-SHIFT-ARROW RIGHT
Extend selection one page up	SHIFT-PAGEUP
Extend selection one page down	SHIFT-PAGEDOWN
Extend selection to the beginning of the file	CTRL-SHIFT-POS1	CTRL-SHIFT-PAGEUP
Extend selection to the end of the file	CTRL-SHIFT-END	CTRL-SHIFT-PAGEUP

Table 6.10:

Misc. commands

Command	Key shortcut	Alternative

Save file	F2	CTRL-K-S
Open file	F3
Search	CTRL-Q-F
Search again	CTRL-L
Search and replace	CTRL-Q-A
Set mark	CTRL-K-N (where n can be 0..9)
Goto mark	CTRL-Q-N (where n can be 0..9)
Undo	ALT-BACKSPACE

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