Programmer's Survival Guide for Windows CMD Shell, File System & Source-code Editors Part 3

3.  Keyboard Shortcuts (for Windows)

Good programmers uses keyboard shortcuts instead of mouse to perform most of the editing tasks, such as positioning the cursor, selecting texts, copy and paste. Below are the frequently-used keyboard shortcuts for the programmers.

Keyboard Shortcut	Function
Ctrl+c, Ctrl+v, Ctrl+x	Copy, Paste, Cut
Ctrl+s	Save
Ctrl+f	Find
Ctrl+z, Ctrl+y	Undo, Redo
Ctrl+RightArrow, Ctrl+LeftArrow	Goto next/previous word
Home, End	Goto begin/end of the current line
Ctrl+Home, Ctrl+End	Goto top/end of document
Ctrl+a	Select all
Ctrl+Shift+RightArrow, Ctrl+Shift+LeftArrow	Select words
Shift+DownArrow, Shift+UpArrow	Select lines
Shift+RightArrow, Shift+LeftArrow	Select characters
Shift+End, Shift+Home	Select till end/begin of current line
Alt+Tab	Switch between open applications
Alt+F4	Close the current application

Mouse Clicks

1. Single-click to position the mouse pointer.
2. Double-click to select a word.
3. Triple-click to select a paragraph.