Canon Cat Reference Manual page 20

Leaping
The Cat's
su1sq1-
ths
blinking
object
on
your
screen
-
is capable
of
moving
anywhere
in the
text almost instantly.
The term
leap
descibes this new and astonishingly fast
mode
of
travel.
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The LEAP Keys
There
are
two directions you
can
leap:
forward
and
back-
ward. Two
rose-colored LEAP
keys
-
[LEAP->]
and
[<-LEAP]
-
control
leaping.
Forward and Backward
When you consider
the
normal reading order of the text
(left
to
right
and
down),forwardmeans toward
characters
that come later
in
the text.
Bach,tardmeans
toward
char-
acters
that
come
earlier in
the text.
How Leaping Works
While holding
a
LEAP key, type what you want
the
cursor
to
find.
Whatever you
type is
called
a
pattern.
While you type
the
pattern,
the cursor
immediately
moves
in
the
direction indicated by
the
LEAP key,
landing on the
frst
character
of
the
first
occurrence
of the pattern
in
the
text.
This
character is
called
the
target character.
[<-LEAP] behaves
the
same as [LEAP->] except
that
the
cursor moves
in
the opposite direction through the text.
The
search
is
circular. A
leap
in
one direction
will
circle
the entire text
in
search
of
the
pattern.
The top or bottom
of the text is no
barrier.
By taking the
long way around, the
cursor may
arive
at a backward
position
after a
forward
leap
and
vice versa.
The cursor can
find what you leap to
even when
you
leap
rn
the
wrong direction.
The moment
the
pattem
cannot be
found,
the cursor
retums
to the starting
place.
This
is called
cursor rebound.
Nter
cursor rebound you should let go
ofthe LEAP
key
and
start
the leap over again.