There are several ways to move around code editors:

• Mouse and cursor motion keys
• Bookmarks
• The Go To Line command
• The Navigate Backward and Navigate Forward buttons

Navigating with the mouse and keyboard

The most common way to navigate text is with the mouse and cursor motion keys:

• Click a location with the mouse.
• Use the arrow keys to move one character at a time, or the arrow keys in combination with the Ctrl key to move one word at a time.
• Use the scroll bars or scroll wheel on the mouse to move through the text.
• Use the Home, End, PageUp, and PageDown keys.
• Use Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down to scroll the view without moving the insertion point.

The keystrokes most commonly used to navigate around a document are:

Keystroke	Description
Up	Moves the cursor up one line.
Down	Moves the cursor down one line.
Left	Moves the cursor left one character.
Right	Moves the cursor right one character.
Home	Moves the cursor to the first character on the line. Pressing Home a second time moves the cursor to the first column.
End	Moves the cursor to the end of the line.
PageUp	Moves the cursor up one page.
PageDown	Moves the cursor down one page.
Ctrl+Left	Moves the cursor left one word.
Ctrl+Right	Moves the cursor right one word.
Ctrl+Up	Moves the cursor to the previous function.
Ctrl+Down	Moves the cursor to the next function.
Ctrl+Home	Moves the cursor to the start of the document.
Ctrl+End	Moves the cursor to the end of the document.
Alt+Up	Move the insertion point to the top of the window.
Alt+Down	Move the insertion point to the bottom of the window.
Ctrl+Up	Scrolls the document up one line in the window without moving the caret.
Ctrl+Down	Scrolls the document down one line in the window without moving the caret.

Go to line

To move the cursor to a particular line number, do the following:

• Choose Search > Go To Line or type Ctrl+G.
• Enter the line number to move the cursor to.

Selecting Text

Selecting text with the keyboard

You can select text using the keyboard by using Shift with the navigation keys.

• Hold Shift key down while using the cursor motion keys.

Selecting text with the mouse

• Move mouse cursor to the point in the document that you want to start selecting.
• Hold down left mouse button and drag mouse to mark selection.
• Release left mouse button to end selection.

Matching delimiters

The editor can find the matching partner for delimiter characters such as (),  [], {}, <>.

To match a delimiter

• Move cursor to the left of the delimiter character to be matched.
• Choose Search > Go To Mate or type Ctrl+].

To select a delimited range

• Move cursor to the left of the delimiter character to be matched.
• Choose Search > Select To Mate or type Ctrl+Shift+].