Seriously? I mean, really? This seems like a simple thing to control; isn't there a way to tell it to go to the next line each time? I come from the textpad world, and this is default behavior.

"Each time" what?

Each time I enter some text on a line, I want the cursor to return to the beginning of the next line that already has text on it. More specifically, say I have the cursor at the beginning of the first 'a' in the first line below.

Cursor at front of first 'a':
aaaaa
bbbb
cccc
dddd

Say I add some text to the first line:

--aaaaa
bbbb
cccc
dddd

You notice, I entered two dashes. At the end of the second dash, if I press the down arrow key, I want the cursor to return to the beginning of the next line, not stay where it's at on the next line. This is a handy feature in Textpad, since I normally only add something to beginning of each line manually, without needing to actually arrow over each time to beginning of the line. I'm using OS X.

Ken

I'd never thought that someone could wish such a feature, seriously . And I'm pretty sure this feature doesn't exist. But as I said: You could save a two-line macro like this:

textArea.goToNextLine(false);
textArea.goToStartOfLine(false);

maybe as "down_carriage-return.bsh" to one of the macro directories and bind it to the down arrow key. it should work.

Robert