Keyboard shortcuts for editing

Note: all keyboard shortcuts described in the following list apply to the default MPW_like keyboard layout that comes default with Eddie. The keyboard layout can be modified in the UserStartup file and the shortcuts may be different on your setup. See description of SetKey for a way of setting and displaying all your current keyboard shortcuts.

Using Undo

Eddie supports unlimited undo. You may undo all the changes you have made to a document since the time you opened it. This includes edits that have been done prior to the time you saved your document. After you have undone changes you may reapply them by using Redo.

Command-Z

Undo

Command-Shift-Z

Redo

Different changes may get grouped by Eddie into a single undo record. For instance if you type some text without changing the selection location and press undo, the entire text you typed will be deleted.

The pencil icon in the status bar indicates that the document is dirty and needs saving, after you have saved the pencil will go away. As you use Undo and Redo repeatedly, the pencil icon will go away when you reached the state of the document that matches the saved file.



Cursor navigation -- Learn about various shortcuts for scrolling, word, sub-word navigation, extending the selection, etc.
Clipboards -- Eddie offers not one but four independent clipboards. Learn about various modes of Cut/Copy/Paste including Swap pasting and using the clipboards in stack mode.
Mouse clicks -- Modifier keys can be used to alter click handling allowing sub-word selection, etc.
Deleting -- Delete to line end, document end, delete a word, a line, etc.
Balancing -- Balance parens, #ifdefs, balance using the mouse.
Swapping and indenting -- Drag lines up and down. Drag selected characters up/down/left/right. Let Eddie parse code and guess what to swap using the Smart swap feature
Drag&Drop -- Open files by dropping them onto Eddie windows.