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/