Editing Files

Files opened within BugSeeker are always read-only. BugSeeker does not have basic text editing features. To edit a source file, you will need to use an external text editor.

Editing a file using external editors

For your convenience, the Tools menu has an Edit File command which, when selected, will open up the currently active source file in your favourite text editor.

To configure BugSeeker to use your favourite text editor, select Tools | Options. Navigate to the Edit File category and enter the path to the text editor you want to use.

BugSeeker will offer to reload any source files that has been edited externally. Whenever the BugSeeker regains window focus, it will check all currently open files to see if they have been modified externally since they were last loaded. If one or more files have been modified externally, BugSeeker will prompt you, asking if you wish to reload all the files that have been modified so that the new source file appears inside BugSeeker's source view. If you decline to reload the modified files, BugSeeker will continue using the contents of the old source files is has in memory until you manually reload these files or have BugSeeker offer to reload them for you after you have externally modified these files again.