Expansion Table Scrolling

Most traditional expanders don't allow duplicate short forms. Instant Text with its Line Number Selection enables you to access several potential expansions with the exact same short form displayed in an Expansion Table. When you use the Line Number Selection you are effectively scrolling the expansion table. Let us explain how the scrolling works with a visual example.

Suppose you display 10 expansion table lines and type aatt.

The following picture displays the phrase expansion table on the left side and its corresponding Expansion List on the right side:

Obviously the expansion list contains more expansions than the expansion table can display. As a result, only the top 10 first expansions are displayed. It is just like when you open a big document in a text editor, you will only see as many lines as your window height is able to accomodate, and to see more lines you will need to scroll down using the adequate keyboard shortcuts.

To scroll down the expansion table, you simply type a digit and it moves the range of the displayed expansions accordingly. Typing 7 for example wil shift the range of the shown expansions, so that the new range starts with the expansion that was previously displayed on line 7: