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    • Russ JonesR
      Russ Jones
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      Is there any way to advance the cursor to the next “word” where “word” means any non-blank characters delimited by spaces, tabs, or newlines? The definition of “word” in NotePad treats every punctuation character as a word, which I find mostly unhelpful. For example,
      142
      is treated as a word but
      -142
      is treated as two words.
      abc
      is treated as one word but
      “abc”
      is treated as 3 words. This definition of a word when using CTRL-rightarrow to advance through the text is no doubt useful in some contexts, but often inhibits defining effective keyboard macros to advance through the blank-separated fields of a table, because where the cursor stops depends on the field contents.

      I would like to be able to advance through the current sequence of nonblank characters and whatever whitespace follows, and land on the next non-blank character after that. Is this possible? Is there a keyboard shortcut that does that?

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