Keyboard Focus
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## Keyboard Focus

When the cursor disappears, that means the text area no longer has focus, and when you type, your keystrokes are probably going somewhere else, such as a dockable. To ensure that the keyboard is focused in the textarea, you can always use the mouse and click in it, but a more keyboard-friendly way is preferred when you are just about to start typing anyway. For this reason, a number of jEdit's actions have a side-effect of focusing on the text area as well. View - Toggle Full Screen is one example. Some others are listed below:

From the View - Scrolling submenu:

- Scroll and Center Caret

- Scroll to Line

From the View - Docking submenu:

- Toggle Docked Areas

- Close current docking area

In general, jEdit is a keyboard-friendly editor that is also mouse-friendly, so you should never be forced to use a mouse to do anything.

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