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Text Editing

Text Editing
Text editing should work as you expect. This is a nice feature of Bike. Often outliner applications constrain text editing in various ways. Bike doesn't do that.
Bike Text Editing
In addition to expected text editing commands Bike also adds a few new ones.
Selection commands:
Selection > Select Word (Control-W)
Expand selection to word boundaries.
Selection > Select Sentence (Control-S)
Expand selection to sentence boundaries.
Selection > Select Paragraph (Shift-Command-L)
Expand selection to paragraph boundaries.
Selection > Select Branch (Shift-Command-B)
Expand selection to branch boundaries.
Selection > Expand Selection (Option-Command-Up)
Expand the selection up through the different boundary levels.
Selection > Contract Selection (Option-Command-Down)
Undo previous Expand Selection command.
Outline commands:
Outline > New Row (Command-Return)
This is similar to pressing Return. The difference is that it will only insert a new row. Pressing Return will replace the selection with a newline to create the new row.
Outline > Duplicate (Command-Shift-D)
Outline > Indent (Control-Command-Right)
Outline > Outdent (Control-Command-Left)
Outline > Move Up (Control-Command-Up)
Outline > Move Down (Control-Command-Down)
Outline > Move to Heading... (Command-\) 
Outline > Delete Rows (Command-Shift-K)
Indent and Outdent are important and used frequently. There are multiple keyboard shortcuts to perform these two commands. First you can use Tab and Shift-Tabas described in Getting Started. Second you can use the above arrow key based shortcuts. Third you can use Command-] and Command-[.
In text editing mode, these commands all work on individual rows, unconstrained by the outline structure. This is as you would expect in a text editor, but maybe different than you would expect if you are used to outliners. See outline editing for outline editing behavior.
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