Procedure editor ctrl + right-arrow

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dwedgbury

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paste the following line into your procedure editor and see where the cursor stops when you use ctrl + right-arrow from the beginning.

a 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 a + - / * = /* */ , . : ; z # @ 'a' "a"

Surely, whatever is after the next space is a the start of a new "word" and thats where the cursor should stop?

can the behavious of the procedure editor be changed?
 
I don't know about under Windows but under unix ctrl + right arrow will cause the cursor to go to the end of line. Ctrl + left arrow will cause the cursor to go to the start of line.
 
I'm using 9.1C on Windows 2000 and I stopped at the following points:

9 a - z # a a

And I have no idea if this behavior can be changed.

Anne.
 
Am I the only person who finds this behaviour annoying?

I use ctrl + right-arrow/left-arrow all the time to navigate around text. It always works properly in other editors like notepad, word etc. The Unix Procedure Editor worked properly with ctrl-p and ctrl-w when I last used it.

Why then does slickedit ignore numbers other than 9 and other symbols such as + * etc???

If I want to change some code, I use ctrl + arrow to get there quicker than using just the arrow key. Its a pain in the @rse on the odd occasion when I want to get to one of the characters that slickedit ignores.
 
i'm sorry, but the whole progress editor is lousy...

try ed4win instead. brilliant editor for nearly all programming languages.
 
we have added functionality to the procedure editor so I can't just use a different editor without making things even more annoying
 
Er,
I tried this (8.3D / win98) and it stopped at the following points:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 a + - / * = / * , . : ; z # @ ' " a "

Which is exactly what I would expect

And personally I find the progress editor better than any other editor, I find myself editing php and html, and any other code i need to edit in the progress editor cos I love the block indent/unindent tools. imho this functionality alone outweighs all the other tools that other editors have added together
 
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