Solaris Common Desktop Environment: User's Guide

Moving the Cursor in a Document

As you enter and edit text, you move the insertion cursor using the mouse and keyboard cursor keys. Using the mouse, move the pointer to the new location in the document and click mouse button 1.

You can also use the keyboard cursor movement keys:

Key	Cursor Movement
Up Arrow	Up one line
Down Arrow	Down one line
Left Arrow	Left one character
Right Arrow	Right one character
Control+Left Arrow	Move left to previous word
Control+Right Arrow	Move right to next word
Home	Beginning of the current line
End	End of the current line
Control+Up Arrow	Beginning of the previous paragraph
Control+Down Arrow	Beginning of the next paragraph
Control+Home	Beginning of the document
Control+End	End of the document
Control+G	To the Line field in the status line

Note –

If your keyboard uses different key labels, ask your system administrator to identify the corresponding keys.

To Go to a Specific Line

Display the status line (see To Display the Status Line).

Press Control+G or click in the Line field of the status line.

Type the line number you want to go to and press Return.

To Scroll a Document

Select and drag the vertical scroll bar to view more text. Use the horizontal scroll bar to view long lines.

You can also use the scrolling keys:

Key	Scroll Movement
Page Up	Up one page
Page Down	Down one page
Control+Page Up	Left one page
Control+Page Down	Right one page