Tex-Edit Plus has many built-in editing shortcuts:
• Forward delete, home, end, page up, page down and cursor keys are active.
• The F1-F4 keys invoke the standard undo, cut, copy and paste commands.
• Shift-arrow extends a selection.
• Option-left/right arrow moves the cursor one word at a time.
• Option-shift-left/right arrow extends the selection one word at a time.
• Command-left/right arrow moves the cursor to the beginning/end of the line.
• Command-shift-left/right arrow extends the selection to the beginning/end of the line.
• Option-up/down arrow moves the insertion marker to the beginning/end of the document.
• Option-shift-up arrow will select all text up to and including the current selection.
• Option-shift-down arrow will select all text from the current selection to the end of the document.
• Option-page up moves the cursor to the top of the previous screenful of text.
• Option-page down moves the cursor to the bottom of the next screenful of text.
• Option-shift-page up selects all the text between the end of the current selection and the top of the previous screenful of text.
• Option-shift-page down selects all the text between the start of the current selection and the bottom of the next screenful of text.
• Option-delete/forward delete will delete the previous/next word.
• Enter or Return activate the default (outlined) button.
• Esc or Command-period activate the Cancel button.
• All other pushbuttons have command key equivalents based on the first letter in the name of the button.
Here are several miscellaneous tips:
• The watch cursor will spin during any time-consuming, interruptible operations. Use command-period to interrupt the operation.
• To edit the text in a SimpleText read-only (ttro) document, simply select and copy the text into a new document.
• Open any file by dragging it onto Tex-Edit Plus.
• To move a styled Tex-Edit Plus document into another word processor without losing style information, use the clipboard to copy and paste the entire document.
• Triple click to select a line.
• Quadruple click to select a paragraph.
• Option-click on a close box to close all windows.
• To delete all occurrences of a string, use the Find/Replace dialog. Just leave the replace field blank and choose Replace All.
• Count the number of occurrences of any given string using the Find/Replace dialog. Enter an appropriate number of wildcard characters in the Replace with box, then choose Replace All and note the number of replacements.
• To see non-printing characters (tabs, CRs, etc.), use the included ASCII fonts.
• Tex-Edit’s PICT handling abilities are handy when it comes to cropping screen shots (Command-shift-3) for use in other programs (e.g., Word). Just click-and-drag a selection marquee and choose Copy.
• If you run out of memory during a PICT copy operation, try keeping the entire selection marquee visible.
• If you notice a delay when opening or resizing large documents, make sure the text is left justified and Use real tabs is off.
• A document can be read in the background if Auto-Highlighting is off. You may use all of Tex-Edit’s normal editing functions during the reading session.
• To “nest” quoted text (make a quote of a quote), use the Block Options dialog to increase the line length a little before issuing the Block Quote command the second time.
• To avoid misaligned columns and indents in printouts, leave “Font Substitution” off (in the Page Setup dialog) or use real tabs instead of spaces.
• All numeric dialog fields have up/down arrow buttons that allow quick adjustment between allowable field values.
