I’m using ST4, Windows 10.
I notice that when I move the cursor using the arrow keys on the keyboard, the movement could be faster.
Is there any way to speed up cursor movement?
How to make cursor movement faster?
rogeriodec
#1
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I don’t think any package/plugin or settings could speed up cursor movements. I use ST4 on Windows as well and never felt the need for faster cursor movements. If you are trying to use cursor to navigate through large documents, then probably the problem lies there. Instead you could be using other faster ways like scrollbar, minimap, Goto Anything etc.
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deathaxe
#3
Isn’t cursor movement controlled/limited by keyboard repeat rate (see: https://bltt.org/windows-10-keyboard-repeat-rate/), is it?
I don’t think ST limits it any further (assuming no plugin causes heavy delays).
ST’s default input latency is pretty much the best Windows offers (16ms) compared to VS Code which is at ~50ms.
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rogeriodec
#4
Well, my keyboard is already configured by default in Windows 10 with the maximum repetition rate. Even so, within ST, when I want to move the cursor several characters to the left or right, it could be faster…
But if it depends exclusively on Windows, there’s nothing to do…
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octothrope
#5
I don’t know what the corresponding shortcut is on Windows, but on a Mac you can jump ahead and back a word at a time (versus one character at a time) by holding down the Option key as a modifier with the arrow key. I use that often when I’m trying to cover a lot of ground with the cursor.
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rogeriodec
#6
The option for Mac’s key in Windows is Alt.
I didn’t know that.
It seems to jump the cursor in a split word, 4 or 5 chars per time.
Thank you!
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OdatNurd
#7
Specifically, Ctrl will jump whole words and Alt will stop at subwords inside of words, so you have the flexibility to to both.
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rogeriodec
#8
Only now that I understood what you mean by “subwords”: it’s a Pascal Case model.
And it is exactly this model that I use in my programming, so Alt has been a great daily ally to make it easier to move the cursor faster, but mainly to facilitate the SELECTION of “subwords”:
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