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GUIGUTS VERSION 2 MANUAL
Up to date with release 2.0.9 (November 2025)
Guiguts has a surprisingly large number of ways to help you move around within the text, and to find different kinds of tags, markups, strings, and locations. This topic covers most of them; the Search & Replace dialog, which you are likely to keep open most of the time, is a separate topic unto itself.
Scrolling the Text
You can scroll the text in the window using the same methods as in other applications, depending on your operating system and computer setup. These may include using the Up/Down arrow keys or Page Up/Page Down keys; dragging or clicking in the scroll bars; using the mouse scroll-wheel if it has one; clicking and dragging the mouse middle button (or clickable scroll-wheel) if it has one; or using a scroll method or gesture on a touchpad/trackpad/trackball.
Moving the Cursor
You move the cursor through the file with keys that should, for the most part, be familiar. The arrow, page, home and end keys move small distances:
| Windows/Linux | macOS | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| left arrow | left arrow | prior character |
| right arrow | right arrow | next character |
| up arrow | up arrow | line above |
| down arrow | down arrow | line below |
| home | cmd + left arrow | left end of line; repeat to move to first non-space |
| end | cmd + right arrow | right end of line |
| page up | fn + up arrow | move up the file by one window-height |
| page down | fn + down arrow | move down the file by one window-height |
Hold down the control key to modify the effects of these keys:
| Windows/Linux | macOS | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| ctrl-left arrow | option + left arrow | prior word |
| ctrl-right arrow | option + right arrow | next word |
| ctrl-up arrow | option + up arrow | previous paragraph |
| ctrl-down arrow | option + down arrow | next paragraph |
| ctrl-home | cmd + up arrow | top of file |
| ctrl-end | cmd + down arrow | end of file |
| ctrl-page up | fn + cmd + left arrow | shift the display left to show the left margin |
| ctrl-page down | fn + cmd + right arrow | shift the display right to show the rightmost letter |
Using any of these keys clears the selection, if there is a selection.