Slick V3.3 Counting Selected Lines and Characters, Adding Numbers to a Selection Enumeration

Selections

Adding Numbers to a Selection: Enumeration

You can automatically add incrementing numbers to a selection of code by using the enumerate com- mand. To configure enumeration properties, from the main menu click Edit → Other → Enumerate. For a list of the options that are available on the Enumerate dialog, see Enumerate Dialog.

Counting Selected Lines and Characters

SlickEdit® Core automatically counts the number of lines and characters in a selection. This is useful to measure the length of a word or string, or the number of lines in a function. An indicator, located in the bottom edge of the editor, displays the following information based on your current selection:

•When nothing is selected, the indicator is dimmed and displays the text "No Selection."

•When the current selection is a character selection:

•If the character selection is contained on one line, the indicator displays the number of columns se- lected.

Note

Because columns are "virtual", the number of columns displayed by the indicator is not necessar- ily the actual number of characters or bytes in the selection, if the selection includes tab charac- ters, unicode characters, or extends beyond the end of the line.

•If the character selection spans more than one line, the indicator shows the number of lines, with a plus sign (+) to indicate if there are "extra" characters selected, or a minus sign (-) to indicate if there are fewer characters selected, depending on the start and end columns of the selection.

•When the current selection is a line selection, the indicator displays the number of lines.

•When the current selection is a block selection, the indicator displays the size of the block in the format Lines x Columns.

Click on the indicator, or use the select_toggle command on the SlickEdit Core command line, to create successively larger common selections. For example, if you have a character selection, you can click on the indicator or use select_toggle to extend the selection to include the entire word. Selections are cycled in the following order, starting with no selection:

1.Create empty character selection

2.Select current word

3.Select current line

4.Select current code block

5.Select larger code block

6.Select current function

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