Using SoftBench Editors

Editing with SoftBench vi Editor

For example, suppose that you are editing a file called FirstFile in the only existing SoftBench vi Editor window, and this window's "■ Reuse Window" toggle button is not selected. Editing SecondFile by choosing "File: Open" generates a new SoftBench vi Editor window with SecondFile loaded into it (because the first window is not to be reused).

On the other hand, if you set the "■ Reuse Window" toggle button in the SoftBench vi Editor window editing FirstFile, then SecondFile loads into the same window.

If you have a mixture of SoftBench vi Editor windows with and without the "■ Reuse Window" toggle button selected, then requesting that another file be edited causes that file to be loaded into a window where the "■ Reuse Window" toggle button is selected. If you select "■ Reuse Window" toggle buttons in several windows, then SoftBench vi Editor cycles through the windows as you make additional edit requests.

Selecting, Copying, and Pasting Text

You can take advantage of the copy and paste operations between windows. For example:

1.In the SoftBench vi Editor window, select some text by dragging the mouse pointer.

2.Press Control-Insert, which copies the selected text into the Clipboard.

3.Move the cursor to the point where you want to insert text. Enter SoftBench vi Editor insert mode by typing "i", then paste the text from the Clipboard into the file by pressing Shift-Insert. If the destination window is not in vi's insert mode, SoftBench vi Editor interprets the characters as commands until one of them puts vi into insert mode.

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