Advance cursor past any sequence of non-blank characters and following blank, tab, or newlines
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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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@Russ-Jones found another post about the same subject that seem to have the answer
https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/24248/ctrl-l-r-arrow-keys-distance-modificationI tried what guy038 proposed and used the characters you gave: - and " ( how do you make the text have the nice red color people use when giving characters? ), and with your examples it does what you want.
