Changing Screen Resolution and Setting TextPad Preferences - Java Programming: Comprehensive Concepts and Techniques - page 933

You can change additional settings such as font, font size, and tabs using similar steps. To change
font and font size, if necessary, click the plus sign next to Document Classes and then click the plus
sign next to Java in the Preferences list. Click Font. When finished making changes to these preferences,
click the Apply button. To change tab settings, if necessary, click the plus sign next to Document
Classes and then click the plus sign next to Java in the Preferences list. Click Tabulation. When finished
making changes to these preferences, click the Apply button.
For more information about changing additional settings, click Help on the TextPad menu bar and
then click Help Topics. When the Help window opens, click the Contents tab and then click the plus
sign next to How To to display the topic list.
The final step is to close the Preferences dialog box and quit TextPad.

To Close the Preferences Dialog Box and Quit TextPad

1. In the Preferences dialog box, click the OK button.
2. Click the Close button on the TextPad title bar.

TextPad Editing Techniques

TextPad supports many of the same editing commands as popular word processing programs.
Table C-1 displays TextPad commands to navigate through the coding window. Table C-2 on the next
page displays different ways to select text in TextPad.

Table C-1 Commands to Move through the Coding Window
TO MOVE THE INSERTION POINT PRESS THIS KEY

to the beginning of the document CTRL + HOME

to the end of the document

CTRL + END

to first non-space character on a line HOME

to the left margin

HOME twice

to the end of a line

END

forward one word

CTRL + W or CTRL + RIGHT ARROW

back one word CTRL + B or CTRL + LEFT ARROW

back to the end of the previous word

CTRL + D

to the start of the next paragraph ALT + DOWN ARROW

to the start of the previous paragraph

ALT + UP ARROW

to the start of the first visible line ALT + HOME

to the start of the last visible line

ALT + END

scroll display down one line CTRL + DOWN ARROW

scroll display up one line

CTRL + UP ARROW

to a specified line, column, or page number CTRL + G