# How to move around a file

This guide shows how to get to the piece of code you are looking for. It assumes you have a file open.

## Find text

Press **Ctrl-F**, type what you are looking for, and press **Enter**. The first match is selected.

- **F7** — next match
- **Shift-F7** — previous match

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.

## Jump to a line number

Press **Ctrl-G**, type the number, press **Enter**. Lines count from one, as they do in Node's error messages.

## Jump to a declaration

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.

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).

If the file is already open, its window comes forward instead of opening a second one.

> This needs `typescript-language-server` installed. See [How to enable JavaScript completion](enable-completion.md).

## Select and edit whole lines

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| --- | --- |
| **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. |
| **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. |
| **Ctrl-Y** | Delete the line the cursor is on. The cursor keeps its line number, so holding the key deletes a run of lines. |

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`.

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.

## Move by word, line and file

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| --- | --- |
| **Ctrl-←** / **Ctrl-→** | Previous / next word |
| **Home** / **End** | Start / end of the line |
| **Ctrl-Home** / **Ctrl-End** | Start / end of the file |
| **PgUp** / **PgDn** | One screenful |

Hold **Shift** with any of these to select as you go.

## Move between windows

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| --- | --- |
| **F6** | The window behind the current one |
| **Alt-1** … **Alt-9** | That numbered window — the number is in its top-right corner |
| **Alt-0** | A list of every open window |

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.

## Variants

**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).

**You want to see where you are.** The right-hand end of the status bar always shows `line:column`, counting from one.

**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.

**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.

## See also

- Every key: [keyboard reference](../reference/keyboard.md)
- Every menu item: [menu reference](../reference/menus.md)