Re: v6: cursor behaviour with arrow keys
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- Subject: [mg77014] Re: v6: cursor behaviour with arrow keys
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 03:39:13 -0400 (EDT)
Will Robertson wrote: >I'm running Mathematica v6 on Windows XP sp2, and I get very weird >behaviour when using the up/down arrow keys that is quite >inconsistent. For example, at the moment, I can open a new >document, paste in the following text to create a cell: >a := 1 >b := 1 >c := 1 >d := 1 >e := 1 >f := 1 >g := 1 >evaluate it by hitting enter, then click at the end of line "a", >hit the down arrow twice -- and the cursor will jump to the end of >line "g". Hitting up twice brings the cursor to the beginning of >line "f", and then up again takes the cursor back *down* to the end >of line "g". This cycle will then repeat with further up arrow >presses. I cannot reproduce this behavior using version 6 on Mac OS X. After pasting that text into a new cell and evaluating it and placing the cursor as described, the arrow keys move the cursor up/down one line as I would expect consistently. -- To reply via email subtract one hundred and four