Navigating within longer topics

[Julian29]

Hi, everybody
I don't know whether this is new or I simply didn't realize it: Although I always try to keep individual topics as short as possible, sometimes I do have to save a long article in order to keep everything together. And now I'm wondering why I can't jump from the top to the bottom (and viceversa) of such a longer document via  shortcut, usually by something like Ctrl-PageDown or Ctrl-CursorUp etc. The only way to get to the end or beginning is by scrolling.

I hope this is not an option to be activated within the configuration menu (at least I haven't find it).
BTW: This was also the reason why I didn't really enjoy using CT for some weeks because the (formerly default) shortcut for autoproposal (Ctrl-Space) had not been activated by default and it took me quite a long time to discover this in the keyboard options.

Regards
Julian

[Bluespianist]

Hi Julian,

this should work, at least it does on my machine:

Rendered View - you may have to click into the window first
 * Pgup, PgDown - to jump a screen's length
 * Home (to top of page), End (to bottom of page)
 * use anchors [[#anchorname]], then jump to them with [[#anchorname|GoToAnchor]]
 * use headings and display View > Table of Contents to quickly jump around in a long topic. However this last option has a few quirks I don't want to get into now


Edit View
 * Ctrl Home, Ctrl End - to go to the top or bottom
 * PgUp, PgDown - scroll a screen's length
 * use bookmarks (not from the Menu, these are across projects), but within a topic by clicking in front of a line)

[gcoulthard]

Stefan outlines all of the methods that I use. Works well for me anyway -- Glen

[Julian29]

Rendered View - you may have to click into the window first ...

thanks for your replies. I should have said: Rendered View and - honestly speaking - I exptected the same navigation behaviour in both View and Edit mode.

* Pgup, PgDown - to jump a screen's length
 * Home (to top of page), End (to bottom of page)

OK, so far, but then?
How can I jump (with ONE shortcut) from the bottom to the top just as in edit mode? I think this might be true for 98% of all windows software, but even if there where another shortcut option ...
Of course, it is not a big problem, but IMHO worth asking why ...,

use headings and display View

I'm really in love with this option and I use it a lot, but sometimes I just want to jump directly to the other "edge" of a long document.

Best regards
Julian

[Bluespianist]

Hi Julian,

How can I jump (with ONE shortcut) from the bottom to the top

well, HOME should do the trick, at least it does so on my system.

A bit more elaborate, to make sure we talk about the same thing:

Rendered View, I am scrolling down and further down, using either the mousewheel, or the cursor keys, or PgDown, or the scrollbar - take your pick, until I am lost in the middle or have reached the very bottom of my deep sea topic.

Now, here it comes: ONE single hit on the key labeled HOME (Pos1 on the German keyboard), et voila, that should send you shooting up to the surface in no time.

[Julian29]

Now, here it comes: ONE single hit on the key labeled HOME ...

Apologizes to Eduardo ... 

I wasn't aware of the fact that one has to activate the topic before in order for this shortcut to work. OK, no problem.
I usually try to keep my fingers on the keyboard as much as possible so clicking first into the topic was not an obvious option for me, but right now I discovered that hitting the tab key before seems to be a reliable workaround. 

Regards
Julian

[Bluespianist]

clicking first into the topic was not an obvious option for me

You have a very good point there, Julian. Strange coincidence that it never consciously occured to me until today, when I was browsing in CT with my laptop during a train ride w/o mouse. I suddenly encountered the same problem.

At home, I automatically switch the focus back to the topic, by always selecting text with the mouse (to land right there in Edit-mode). But today I realized that with all my docked windows, it actually takes several Tabs to cycle from TOC to History etc., until I eventually wind up in my topic window again.

I wonder if it makes sense to implement another way of getting the focus back? Maybe Enter or Ctrl-Enter?

[Eduardo Mauro]

You don't have to use tabs. You can use Alt+number to go to the desired view.

[Bluespianist]

Of course, thanks for the hint. Sometimes I am drowning in my own mental quagmire, and need someone to throw me a line like that. It sure pays to click around the menus from time to time.

Thanks
Stefan