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Is There A Way To Increase Speed Of Text Cursor/Caret?
When I hold down right in Notepad, the caret has a top speed that it will move at. Is there any way to increase this speed?
When I hold down right in Notepad, the caret has a top speed that it will move at. Is there any way to increase this speed?
You might be able to increase the repeat speed at least a little more in the keyboard properties.
Malcolm
Unfortunately, I'm way ahead of you
I can not find a 3rd party program to make it faster, are you trying to get through lines faster, because page up and down will do that much faster then the arrow keys will.
I spend a lot of time in a few different text programs/IDEs. It drives me nuts how slow the caret moves from right to left. I'm extremely proficient with keyboard shortcuts though so I'm probably maxed out on potential keyboard movement efficiency . Thank you for confirming my suspicion. It seems like a Windows setting you could logically modify somehow but I guess it never got the love it deserved .
Until a way is found to increase the speed through a system setting, you may have to get used to using an extra key with the arrow key, see how using the Control [Ctrl] key along with the right arrow key feels to you; What this will do is move the cursor one word at a time instead of a space. If you hold the right arrow key down the cursor will move faster until you release the key.
The Control+Arrow key functions can be found near the top of this link in the General section: Windows 7 Keyboard Shortcuts
This link can be found at the bottom of the shortcut list, it offers a plethora of shortcuts for different programs, use the alphabetized List Filter of names or vendors at the top: shortcutmania.com keyboard shortcuts