Did you know... how to swap the current anchor position in the editor? - #047

Ctrl+K, Ctrl+A will swap the current anchor position.  For whatever reason, when i tested our Emacs Emulations, i used this functionality all the time whenever I wrote test case code.  But i never use it in the default editor settings.  It isn’t the keybinding that i have to press.  I think it is just the way the overall experience flows when in emacs.

cursor position before swap:

cursor position after swap:

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• Anonymous
  September 25, 2007
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• Anonymous
  September 25, 2007
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• Anonymous
  September 26, 2007
  Sara, Just adding my vote for you to please keep these up! While some are a bit esoteric, these are very useful for any and all keyboard jockeys. Down with the mouse! Long live the keyboard! :) -Chuck

• Anonymous
  September 26, 2007
  Awesome... another shortcut I'd missed that'll be used many times daily. :) I've already bound it to ctrl+shift+a (I never use dual combo shortcuts for my common commands). On the subject of Emacs emulation, why can I not use Edit.EmacsOtherWindow or Edit.EmacsSplitVertical (and other similar commands)? In the Immediate window I simply get the error "Command "blah" is not available.", and binding to a key does nothing also.

• Anonymous
  September 27, 2007
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• Anonymous
  October 12, 2007
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• Anonymous
  October 12, 2007
  I take it all back.  My guess is that Emacs or Brief named commands dont' work unless I am in that mode. Window.NextSplitPane is the command for what I was looking.

• Anonymous
  June 22, 2008
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• Anonymous
  October 13, 2008
  Ctrl+K, Ctrl+A изменяет позицию курсора. Я использовала эту функцию по любому поводу, когда тестировала