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Offline k3y

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Windows Navigation Shortcut Help Please
« on: Wed, 14 January 2015, 18:56:21 »
Hello everyone,

I need to be able to navigate left and right on a text line in a text editor without going to the arrow keys.

I am a Mac user that recently needs to use Windows for a good majority of programming work and having to go to the arrow keys to move left and right is driving me insane. On my Mac I can hold Ctrl + B for back and Ctrl + F for forward on the line . This is native in the OS.

I'm hoping that some Windows keyboard shortcut/keystroke master has a solution to do the same in Windows 8.1, ideally native in Windows. If that's not possible what is the best Windows keystroke/shortcut software?

I've searched all over the internet, but the search terms are just too precise and vague at the same time.
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Re: Windows Navigation Shortcut Help Please
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 14 January 2015, 22:01:23 »
Welcome to hell :(

Microsoft keyboard shortcuts are unintuitive and conflicting.

According to Microsoft it does not seem like there are forward/backward char keyboard shortcuts:

https://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/keys_general.mspx?mfr=true

Except for the arrow keys.
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Offline IvanIvanovich

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Re: Windows Navigation Shortcut Help Please
« Reply #2 on: Thu, 15 January 2015, 10:57:40 »
There are a LOT more and different keyboard commands in Windows 8.1 but what you want still isn't. Perhaps it's possible to find a text editor where you can reassign such key commands inside, or even already has it set up that way?  I think that would be the best bet really if having such key commands in text editor is the only concern.
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Offline k3y

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Re: Windows Navigation Shortcut Help Please
« Reply #3 on: Fri, 16 January 2015, 13:55:57 »
Thank you both for the links. It hard to comprehend (I know not really) such a thing not being in Windows by default. Thanks again.
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Re: Windows Navigation Shortcut Help Please
« Reply #4 on: Fri, 23 January 2015, 08:36:03 »
You could map your own in AutoHotKey?
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