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

[Mulsiphix]

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]

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

Malcolm

 

[Mulsiphix]

Unfortunately, I'm way ahead of you

 

[rvcjew]

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]

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 .

 

[Anak]

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]

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.http://www.shortcutmania.com/index.htm

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]

My pleasure!

 

[rvcjew]

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]

That is a great list of keyboard shortcut Anak

 

[Anak]

You're welcome RvC and TZ.