Re: Copy Shortcut - Alt-L & Alt-C

Sam/Kurt,

And don't forget Alt-M when you want to move the lines, rather than copy.

Dave Shaw
Mohawk Industries

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Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] Copy Shortcut - Alt-L & Alt-C

Kurt,

You've may have heard this before, but just in case.

Personally, I'm nearly always trying to copy entire lines. On that
premise...

Regardless of where you are on a line, do Alt-L and the entire line will
highlight, move to another line and do Alt-L again and the range of
lines will highlight. Then move the cursor to a line where you want the
highlighted lines, or line copied. Regardless of where the cursor is on
the target line, Alt-C will copy the selected text right after the
target line.

Alt-U un-highlights lines that are highlighted.

AFAIK, Alt-L and Alt-C are deliberately designed to be line oriented
operations. I occasionally click and drag, or double click, to select,
but only when I want just part of a line.

Sam

On 11/5/2010 4:05 PM, Kurt Anderson wrote:

Well I figured out the issue.
When the cursor is on the line number and not in the actual source, Ctrl-C will not copy the highlighted text. When the cursor is in the text and you press Ctrl-C, it copies the highlighted text.

It sure would be nice if Ctrl-C would work when the cursor is moved into the line numbers. When highlighting a block of text with the mouse, from right to left, it drops the cursor into the line number unless you are very careful about stopping the cursor at the position of the 1st character. I don't know about others, but when I copy a block of text anywhere else, it's usually a wave of the mouse for me (not requiring fine manipulation). But, maybe I'm being picky.

-Kurt

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From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kurt Anderson
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 4:20 PM
To: 'Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i& iSeries'
Subject: [WDSCI-L] Copy Shortcut

I just realized that my RDp has the copy shortcut set as ctl-insert instead of ctl-C. Has it always been like that, or did I somehow accidentally (by way of another shortcut) switch my copy shortcut. I went into Preferences and couldn't find where the setting is to modify the shortcuts. The only time I had gone in there was to make Shift-Ctl-A unique to opening a member.

Thanks,
Kurt Anderson
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
CustomCall Data Systems