Selecting Text

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Selecting Text

The simplest method to select text is to double-click your left mouse button. The amount of text selected depends on the location of your cursor.

If the cursor immediately precedes an open parenthesis, VLISP selects all the following text up to the matching close parenthesis.
If the cursor immediately follows a close parenthesis, VLISP selects all preceding text up to the matching open parenthesis.
If the cursor immediately precedes or follows a word, or is within a word, VLISP selects that word.

To select specific text, press and hold the SHIFT key while pressing the arrow keys on the keyboard. Other keyboard methods of text selection are listed in the following table:

Text selection shortcut keys
To	Press
Expand the selection to the next line	SHIFT+DOWN ARROW
Expand the selection to the previous line	SHIFT+UP ARROW
Expand the selection to the end of the line	SHIFT+END
Expand the selection to the beginning of the line	SHIFT+HOME
Expand the selection down one window, or abandon selection of the next window, if it is currently selected	SHIFT+PAGEDOWN
Expand the selection up one window, or abandon selection of the previous window, if it is currently selected	SHIFT+PAGEUP
Expand the selection to the next word, or abandon selection of the next word, if it is currently selected	CTRL+SHIFT+RIGHT ARROW
Expand the selection to the previous word, or abandon selection of the previous word, if it is currently selected	CTRL+SHIFT+LEFT ARROW
Expand the selection up to the matching left parenthesis	CTRL+SHIFT+[
Expand the selection up to the matching right parenthesis	CTRL+SHIFT+]
Move the cursor to the other side of the selection	ALT+ENTER