Press alt + arrow to skip full line? (Or is there an existing shortcut already..? )
Posted
by
Luka Kotar
on Ask Ubuntu
See other posts from Ask Ubuntu
or by Luka Kotar
Published on 2013-08-13T01:22:07Z
Indexed on
2013/10/24
16:10 UTC
Read the original article
Hit count: 186
keyboard
|shortcut-keys
I am still a fresh Ubuntu user, and I switched from a Mac. What I can do on Mac, is I can press alt + arrow
to jump one word forward or backward, or if I press cmd + arrow
, I am able to jump to the start or end of the line. And that's what I would like to do in Ubuntu. I would assign it to the alt
key, as ctrl
is already used to skip words.
I use that function a lot when coding, I like to keep my hands on the keyboard and just not touch the mouse at all, and it just saves me time for not having to hold the arrow key until I get to the end of the line (or the skip-a-word combo for that matter), or grabbing the mouse to click at the end, just to add a semicolon or something like that. It's not a huge deal, but that's just what I'm used to. I still keep my Mac partition for incompatibility issues, but I prefer Ubuntu over Mac.
If there is already a shortcut to do that, I'd gladly go ahead and try getting comfortable using it, but if it is not, how could I achieve what I described above, if of course it is even possible?
Thanks in advance,
Luka.
© Ask Ubuntu or respective owner