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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.
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 pressingReturn
. The difference is that it will only insert a new row. PressingReturn
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-Tab
as 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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