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The Mark menu

The Mark menu

The Mark menu provides facilities for marking text and text positions. They all apply to text windows only.

ENTRIES IN THE MARK MENU

Select all, Alt A
Select the entire text.
Invert selection, Alt I
Turns the selection inside out (whatever was selected becomes unselected and the other way around)
Clear selection, Alt Z
Remove the selection.

Begin selection, Alt Shift A
Set or change the starting point of a single-fragment selection. If there is no previous selection, the end point is the end of the text.
End selection, Alt Shift B
Set or change the end point of a single-fragment selection. If there was no selection, the starting point is text home.

Select SE quadrant, Alt Q, Ctrl ], Ctrl }
Select a south-east quadrant, i.e. everything right of and below the cursor until there is a line which doesn't stretch out beyond the current cursor column (except for white space or indentation characters). This is a bit in the spirit of the South-East quadrant rule found in some programming languages, but not quite. It is especially useful for aligning arrays of variable definitions in programming languages, or indented/juxtaposed paragraphs of text. The resulting selection will be discontinuous, i.e. it consists of a fragment per selected line.
Select NE quadrant, Alt Shift Q, Ctrl [, Ctrl {
Select a north-east quadrant: as in select SE quadrant, but upward.
Toggle single/column, Alt Y
Transforms a continuous selection to a column, or a multi-fragment selection back to a continuous one.

Additive selection, Caps Lock
Toggle additive selection on/off. When this function is on, selecting fragments with the mouse or with the keyboard will not destroy any fragments of text selected before, creating a so-called multi-fragment selection. Also, when additive selection is switched on, the text selection is persistent, i.e. text will not be unhighlighted when you walk out of the selected area using the arrow keys.
Replace mode, Insert
Switch between insert and replace mode. In replace mode, text that is typed will overwrite other text; moreover the Delete (Edit menu, Alt Shift X) and Overlay (Edit menu, Alt Shift V) functions will behave differently.
Highlight syntax, Alt Shift G
Switch on/off highlighting for this window. Whether highlighting is switched on automatically when a window is opened or switched mode is set in the language panel. Switching highlighting off may save considerable amounts of memory.

Put marker, Alt P
Mark the current cursor position. Up to four positions can be marked, and will appear as black triangles on the scroll bar of a text window. At most one position per line is marked. The marked positions can be traversed using Back (Browse menu, Alt Left) and Forward (Alt Right).
Create source tag, Alt Shift H
Enters the selected keyword into the closest tags file, so that it can be found by Edit source... (Browse menu, Ctrl E). If the cursor is not on a keyword, or something larger than a keyword is selected, you will be asked to enter the keyword.

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