[TxMt] Re: Option to allow cursor to be placed in the void

Niels Kobschaetzki n.kobschaetzki at googlemail.com
Thu Jul 10 06:43:08 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Tim Harper <timcharper at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know what I did, or how I did it, but somehow TextMate places
> the cursor, by default, out in the void, where there are no tabs,
> spaces, or characters.
>
> For example: I'm on line 1, column 80.  Line 2 has 5 characters.  I
> press down.  I'm on line 2, column 80.  I type the letter 'a'.  74
> spaces are inserted up to column 80, then the character 'a' is inserted.
>
> How do I switch this behavior back, so that pressing down brings me to
> the end of the line, but not out in the void?

I guess you are Free Hand Editing Mode -- switch it off via Edit -->
Mode --> Freehand Editing or alt+cmd+e

Niels



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