Is There A Way To Increase Speed Of Text Cursor/Caret?

Mulsiphix · 25 Apr 2016

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?

rvcjew · 26 Apr 2016

You might be able to increase the repeat speed at least a little more in the keyboard properties.

Malcolm

Mulsiphix · 26 Apr 2016

Unfortunately, I'm way ahead of you

rvcjew · 26 Apr 2016

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.

Mulsiphix · 26 Apr 2016

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

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Anak · 26 Apr 2016

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

Mulsiphix · 26 Apr 2016

Anak said:

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.

Holy cow, what a difference! I can't believe I didn't know about this shortcut. This is something that have wished I could improve for a very long time. Thank you very much Anak

Anak · 26 Apr 2016

My pleasure!

rvcjew · 26 Apr 2016

Anak said:

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

That is some great info, thanks.

ThrashZone · 26 Apr 2016

That is a great list of keyboard shortcut Anak :)