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   1# How to move around a file
3This guide shows how to get to the piece of code you are looking for. It assumes you have a file open.
5## Find text
7Press **Ctrl-F**, type what you are looking for, and press **Enter**. The first match is selected.
9- **F7** — next match
10- **Shift-F7** — previous match
12The search **wraps round**: pressing F7 repeatedly cycles through every match rather than stopping at the bottom of the file. Case is ignored unless you tick `Case sensitive` in the Find box.
14## Jump to a line number
16Press **Ctrl-G**, type the number, press **Enter**. Lines count from one, as they do in Node's error messages.
18## Jump to a declaration
20Put the cursor on a name and press **F12**. Turbo JS asks `typescript-language-server` where it is declared and goes to that line. When there is more than one declaration, it offers the list.
22That is one of the questions the **Code** menu puts to the server, and `typescript-language-server` answers every one of them — references (`Shift-F12`), type definitions, implementations and project-wide symbols (`Ctrl-T`) included; **Symbol in file** is the way to see everything a file declares. See [How to ask what the code means](ask-about-code.md).
24If the file is already open, its window comes forward instead of opening a second one.
26> This needs `typescript-language-server` installed. See [How to enable JavaScript completion](enable-completion.md).
28## Select and edit whole lines
31| --- | --- |
32| **Double-click a word** | Select it. Typing then replaces it; holding the button after the second click extends the selection from the start of the word. |
33| **Ctrl-N** | Open a blank line **above** the cursor. The cursor stays on its own text, now one line lower — room made over what you are looking at. |
34| **Ctrl-Y** | Delete the line the cursor is on. The cursor keeps its line number, so holding the key deletes a run of lines. |
36Both are Turbo C's keys. `Ctrl-Y` is why **redo is `Ctrl-R`** and no longer `Ctrl-Y`: between the editor looking like Turbo C and a habit picked up here, the first won. `Ctrl-Shift-Z` was not available to move redo to — a terminal delivers it as plain `Ctrl-Z`.
38A double-click away from a word — on a space or a bracket — moves the cursor and selects nothing. Editors disagree about what a run of punctuation means, and nothing is at least an answer you can predict.
40## Move by word, line and file
43| --- | --- |
44| **Ctrl-←** / **Ctrl-→** | Previous / next word |
45| **Home** / **End** | Start / end of the line |
46| **Ctrl-Home** / **Ctrl-End** | Start / end of the file |
47| **PgUp** / **PgDn** | One screenful |
49Hold **Shift** with any of these to select as you go.
51## Move between windows
54| --- | --- |
55| **F6** | The window behind the current one |
56| **Alt-1** … **Alt-9** | That numbered window — the number is in its top-right corner |
57| **Alt-0** | A list of every open window |
59If the windows are on top of each other, `Window ▸ Tile` lays them out side by side and `Window ▸ Cascade` stacks them with every title visible.
61## Variants
63**The file is not JavaScript.** Everything above works except F12, which needs a language server, and the only one this editor starts is `typescript-language-server`, for JavaScript. Colouring is unaffected: the eight other languages the editor knows — JSON, TOML, YAML, Markdown, HTML, XML, Dockerfiles and shell — are coloured as usual; see [Languages coloured](../reference/languages.md).
65**You want to see where you are.** The right-hand end of the status bar always shows `line:column`, counting from one.
67**You resized the terminal.** Windows follow it: one that filled the terminal still fills it, and one you had moved keeps its corner where you put it. Nothing is ever left larger than the terminal.
69**The line is longer than the window.** The view scrolls sideways to follow the cursor; the bar along the bottom of the window shows how far along you are.
71## See also
73- Every key: [keyboard reference](../reference/keyboard.md)
74- Every menu item: [menu reference](../reference/menus.md)

📦 Turbo JS 91999d1 k33g 12h ago	1	# How to move around a file
	2
	3	This guide shows how to get to the piece of code you are looking for. It assumes you have a file open.
	4
	5	## Find text
	6
	7	Press Ctrl-F, type what you are looking for, and press Enter. The first match is selected.
	8
	9	- F7 — next match
	10	- Shift-F7 — previous match
	11
	12	The search wraps round: pressing F7 repeatedly cycles through every match rather than stopping at the bottom of the file. Case is ignored unless you tick `Case sensitive` in the Find box.
	13
	14	## Jump to a line number
	15
	16	Press Ctrl-G, type the number, press Enter. Lines count from one, as they do in Node's error messages.
	17
	18	## Jump to a declaration
	19
	20	Put the cursor on a name and press F12. Turbo JS asks `typescript-language-server` where it is declared and goes to that line. When there is more than one declaration, it offers the list.
	21
	22	That is one of the questions the Code menu puts to the server, and `typescript-language-server` answers every one of them — references (`Shift-F12`), type definitions, implementations and project-wide symbols (`Ctrl-T`) included; Symbol in file is the way to see everything a file declares. See [How to ask what the code means](ask-about-code.md).
	23
	24	If the file is already open, its window comes forward instead of opening a second one.
	25
	26	> This needs `typescript-language-server` installed. See [How to enable JavaScript completion](enable-completion.md).
	27
	28	## Select and edit whole lines
	29
	30	\| \| \|
	31	\| --- \| --- \|
	32	\| Double-click a word \| Select it. Typing then replaces it; holding the button after the second click extends the selection from the start of the word. \|
	33	\| Ctrl-N \| Open a blank line above the cursor. The cursor stays on its own text, now one line lower — room made over what you are looking at. \|
	34	\| Ctrl-Y \| Delete the line the cursor is on. The cursor keeps its line number, so holding the key deletes a run of lines. \|
	35
	36	Both are Turbo C's keys. `Ctrl-Y` is why redo is `Ctrl-R` and no longer `Ctrl-Y`: between the editor looking like Turbo C and a habit picked up here, the first won. `Ctrl-Shift-Z` was not available to move redo to — a terminal delivers it as plain `Ctrl-Z`.
	37
	38	A double-click away from a word — on a space or a bracket — moves the cursor and selects nothing. Editors disagree about what a run of punctuation means, and nothing is at least an answer you can predict.
	39
	40	## Move by word, line and file
	41
	42	\| \| \|
	43	\| --- \| --- \|
	44	\| Ctrl-← / Ctrl-→ \| Previous / next word \|
	45	\| Home / End \| Start / end of the line \|
	46	\| Ctrl-Home / Ctrl-End \| Start / end of the file \|
	47	\| PgUp / PgDn \| One screenful \|
	48
	49	Hold Shift with any of these to select as you go.
	50
	51	## Move between windows
	52
	53	\| \| \|
	54	\| --- \| --- \|
	55	\| F6 \| The window behind the current one \|
	56	\| Alt-1 … Alt-9 \| That numbered window — the number is in its top-right corner \|
	57	\| Alt-0 \| A list of every open window \|
	58
	59	If the windows are on top of each other, `Window ▸ Tile` lays them out side by side and `Window ▸ Cascade` stacks them with every title visible.
	60
	61	## Variants
	62
	63	The file is not JavaScript. Everything above works except F12, which needs a language server, and the only one this editor starts is `typescript-language-server`, for JavaScript. Colouring is unaffected: the eight other languages the editor knows — JSON, TOML, YAML, Markdown, HTML, XML, Dockerfiles and shell — are coloured as usual; see [Languages coloured](../reference/languages.md).
	64
65	You want to see where you are. The right-hand end of the status bar always shows `line:column`, counting from one.
66
67	You resized the terminal. Windows follow it: one that filled the terminal still fills it, and one you had moved keeps its corner where you put it. Nothing is ever left larger than the terminal.
68
69	The line is longer than the window. The view scrolls sideways to follow the cursor; the bar along the bottom of the window shows how far along you are.
70
71	## See also
72
73	- Every key: [keyboard reference](../reference/keyboard.md)
74	- Every menu item: [menu reference](../reference/menus.md)