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Moving the editing cursor

Nearly all editing operations happen at the location of the editing cursor. This cursor appears as a black block containing the base in a light colour, instead of the usual black base on a light background.

The simplest mechanism of moving the cursor is using the left mouse button. Alternatively the following keys can be used.

 Left arrow or Control b        Move left one base
 Right arrow or Control f       Move right one base
 Up arrow or Control p          Move up one base
 Down arrow or Control n        Move down one base
 Control a                      Move editing cursor to start of sequence
 Control e                      Move editing cursor to end of sequence
 Home                           Move editing cursor to start of sequence
 End                            Move editing cursor to end of sequence
 Meta or Alt <                  Move editing cursor to start of contig
 Meta or Alt >                  Move editing cursor to end of contig

If any of these move the editing cursor outside of the visible region, the editor will scroll to accommodate. Control-a and Control-e with the editor on the consensus line will also jump to the start and end of the contig.

If "Cutoffs" are shown (see section Adjust the Cutoff Data) the cursor may be placed in the cutoff data too. Note that turning off displaying cutoff data would then leave the editor on an invisible base, so it is moved to the consensus line instead.


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Last generated on 25 November 2011.