This question relates to a prior question which was answered for all practical purposes

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Asked: June 4, 20262026-06-04T10:34:43+00:00 2026-06-04T10:34:43+00:00

This question relates to a prior question which was answered for all practical purposes

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This question relates to a prior question which was answered for all practical purposes with a fellow telling me I simply needed to press the “End” key to skip the cursor to the end of the line. But a second respondee told me of other IDE’s abilities to this (his words): “In some IDE, pressing the tab key will move your cursor to the next placeholders in the currently auto replaced element, and if there is no more placeholders, brings you past the end of the auto replaced text.”

What is this ability called?

I’ll show an example very quickly, if you or I were writing some code in Aptana or RubyMine (my two favorite IDE’s)…

  <table summary="Subject detail view">
    <tr>
      <th>Name*</th>**
    </tr>
  </table>

We’d eventually run into the location(*), where the single asterisk is. We would reach this point and be forced to either use our mouse to click past the auto-generated </endtag>, or our keyboard arrows, or, most recently, the “End” key which would skip our cursor to the end of the line.

But can’t I just do this with tab like my friend told me? In order to be able to do this I need to know what this keyboard shortcut is called. I need a searchable keyword. Any additional feedback about keyboard/IDE shortcuts etc would also be appreciated.