Navigating in the Source Code (SAP Library

Navigating in the Source Code

To position the cursor within the visible area on the screen, you can simply click the left mouse button at the required point.
The editor also has scrollbars that you can use to scroll through the source code.

There is also a range of key combinations with which you can move the cursor. These key combinations may have different effects in the frontend and backend editor modes:

Key combination	Moves the cursor in the frontend editor	Moves the cursor in the backend editor
	Up one line, possibly beyond the visible area	Up one line, always within the visible area
¯	Down one line, possibly beyond the visible area	Down one line, always within the visible area
¬	One character to the left	As in the frontend editor
®	One character to the right	As in the frontend editor
PgUp	One page up	As in the frontend editor
PgDn	One page down	As in the frontend editor
Home	To the beginning of the current line	As in the frontend editor
End	To the end of the current line	As in the frontend editor
Ctrl +	To the beginning of the current paragraph	Up one line
Ctrl + ¯	To the end of the current paragraph	Down one line
Ctrl + ¬	One word to the left	As in the frontend editor
Ctrl + ®	One word to the right	As in the frontend editor
Ctrl + PgUp	To before the first character in the visible area	To the beginning of the source code
Ctrl + PgDn	To after the last character in the visible area	To the end of the source code
Ctrl + Home	To the beginning of the source code	To the beginning of the current line
Ctrl + End	To the end of the source code	To the end of the current line

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Backend Editor

In the backend editor, you can navigate to a particular line by entering the line number in the input field on the right above the editor pane. The line you entered becomes the current line, and is displayed as the first visible line of code.

Frontend Editor

To navigate to a particular line in the source code:

Right-click in the Editor to open the context menu.
Choose Goto line.
In the dialog box, enter the required line number.

Choose to confirm.

The line is scrolled to the top of the display.

See also:

Navigating by Double-Click

Using Compression Logic