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# Overview #
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The Edit menu contains
all the features specific to editing text. It contains basic text editing options
(cut, copy, paste...) as well as advanced ones (expand abbreviation...).
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# Contents #
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- Undo: Undoes the last editing action.
For example, if you paste in the string "Hello World!", clicking Undo will
remove it.
- Redo: Redoes last Undo
operation.
- Copy: Copies the selected
text from the text area to the system clipboard.
- Cut:
Cuts (i.e copies then removes) the selected text to system clipboard.
- Paste: Inserts the contents of system clipboard into
the text area at the caret position.
- Select All:
Selects all the text.
- Anchor:
- Set Anchor: Drops anchor at the caret
position. Note that this anchor is relative to the text and NOT to the position.
For instance, if you drop anchor in front of the word "Duke" at line 11, then delete
the ten first lines, the anchor will still be in front of the word "Duke."
- Goto Anchor: Places the caret at the anchor position.
If the anchor hasn't been dropped (or set) yet, nothing happens. Read the explanation
of the Set Anchor menu item carefully to understand why an anchor is so useful.
- Exchange Caret/Anchor: Substitutes
the caret with the anchor and vice versa. This means your caret is placed at the
anchor position (as Goto Anchor does) and that the anchor is dropped at the
caret's former position. In other words, they swap locations.
- Select To Anchor: Selects text from the caret to
the anchor, placing the caret at the anchor position.
- Select
From Anchor: Selects text from the anchor to the caret, leaving
the caret in its current position.
- Source Code:
- Block Right Indent: Indents the selected
block of text to the right. The amount of indent is controlled by the tab size option.
- Block Left Indent: Does exactly
the same as Block Right Indent, but to the left.
- Box
Comment: Encloses selected text in a box comment. Comment characters
depends on selected syntax colorizing mode. In Java, C or C++ a box comment adds
/* at the beginning of the block, */ at the end and * at the
beginning of each line.
- Comment:
Adds a single comment at the beginning of each selected line. In Java, C or C++
syntax colorizing mode, each line will begin with //. Comment characters
depends on current selected syntax colorizing mode.
- Wing
Comment: Encloses selected text in a wing comment. Comment characters
depends on current selected syntax colorizing mode. For instance, Java, C and C++
modes will add /* at the beginning of the block and */ at its end.
- Text:
- Tabs To Spaces: Converts all tab characters
contained in your text into equivalent amount of white spaces.
- Spaces To Tabs: If possible, converts white spaces
into tab characters. For example, if you set Tab Size on 8, each sequence of 8 white
spaces will be converted into a single tab character.
- Begin
Lines With: Displays an input dialog in which you have to enter
some text. Then, Jext will add this text at the beginning of each selected line.
- End Lines With: Displays an input
dialog which prompts for text to be added to the end of each selected line.
- To Upper Case: Turns each lower-cased character of
selected text in its upper-case equivalent.
- To Lower
Case: Turns each upper-cased character of selected text in its
lower-case equivalent.
- Sort Lines:
Sorts selected lines according to alphabetical order (using first non-blank characters
of each line).
- Reverse Sort Lines:
Sorts selected lines according to alphabetical order (using first non-blank characters
of each line), reversed.
- Join Lines:
Joins the line on which caret is placed with next one. If next line begins with
more than one blank character, those characters are removed.
- Join
All Lines: Joins all lines contained in your text into a single
one. This can greatly save space for Web pages (and in this way bandwidth and download
times). However, it makes future edits more difficult.
- Remove
End Spaces: Removes all white space and tab characters which can
be found at the end of each line of text. As with Join All Lines, using this
feature can save some loading time for Web pages.
- Complete
Word: Tries to expand the current word. For instance, if you have
already typed "thisIsAnotherVariable", it can be exhausting to retype it each time
you need to use it, right? Instead, just begin to type it (type: "thisIsA", for
example) and fire Expand Abbreviation action [Ctrl-e, Ctrl-e]. Jext will
auto-complete "thisIsA" to write the complete word for you!
- Word
Count: Displays a dialog which summarizes information about the
currently open document: the number of lines, characters, words and, for programmers
only, real-code lines (this excludes blank and commented lines).
- Goto Line: Displays an input dialog
box which prompts for a line number. When Ok is clicked, Jext places the
caret at the beginning of the specified line, if it exists.
- Delete
Line: Deletes the line on which caret is placed.
- Date/Time: Inserts the current date and time in your
text at the caret position.
- Options:
Displays the Jext options dialog. See the Options
section for more information.
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by Romain Guy Last update: 12/27/99
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