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Enabling Virtual Space

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With the Text editor, you can treat text selection and space insertion in two ways. When you select the Virtual Spaces option, spaces are inserted between the end of the line and the insertion point before new characters are added to the line. When you clear the Virtual Spaces option, the Text editor behaves like Microsoft Word for Windows — the insertion point is set to the end of the line.

To enable virtual space

  1. From the Tools menu, choose Options.

  2. Select the Compatibility tab.

  3. In the Current source editor emulation box, select the editor emulation in which you want to have virtual spaces.

  4. Select the Enable virtual space check box.

  5. Click OK.

Note   Many word processors support moving the cursor one sentence at a time. The Text editor supports this as well (with the SentenceLeft and SentenceRight commands), but most source code doesn’t have the spacing and punctuation marks needed for sentence navigation. Instead, you can use the LineUp and LineDown commands to navigate single lines of source code.