Working With Words

Holding down Control in addition to Left or Right moves the caret a word at a time. Holding down Shift and Control in addition to Left or Right extends the selection a word at a time.

A single word can be selected by double-clicking with the mouse, or using the Edit>Text>Select Word command (shortcut: Control-E W). A selection that begins and ends on word boundaries can be created by double-clicking and dragging.

Pressing Control in addition to Backspace or Delete deletes the word before or after the caret, respectively.

Edit>Word Count displays a dialog box with the number of characters, words and lines in the current buffer.

Edit>Complete Word (shortcut: Control-B) locates possible completions for the word at the caret, first by looking in the current edit mode's keyword list, and then searching the current buffer.

If there is only one completion, it will be inserted into the buffer immediately. If multiple completions were found, they will be listed in a popup below the caret position. To insert a completion from the list, either click it with the mouse, or select it using the Up and Down keys and press Enter. To close the popup without inserting a completion, press Escape. Typing while the popup is visible will automatically update the popup and narrow the set of completions as necessary.

This feature be used to avoid retyping previously entered identifiers in program source, for example.