[TxMt] Alt-up/down ... and some other navigation stuff

[Allan Odgaard]

On 5. Apr 2007, at 15:36, Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:

> Is there any more in-depth explanation anywhere about what alt-up/ 
> down really does? I understand there's some sort of columnar  
> behavior, but when I use it in prose text, it seems to behave in a  
> rather baffling manner to me... I've been looking for an equivalent  
> to the (IMO very useful) ctrl-up/down functionality in Emacs (next  
> paragraph, or, rather, next empty line, basically) and thought  
> perhaps this might work somewhat like that -- and it seems to, if I  
> move to the beginning of the line first. (OK, so the "next  
> paragraph" functionality is a question of its own, I guess; is  
> there something like it?)

The explanation is here http://macromates.com/textmate/manual/ 
working_with_text#column_movement_typing

And this screencast shows it in action with some commenting: http:// 
macromates.com/blog/archives/2006/04/22/working-with-numbers/