Slick V3.3 manual Selective Display, Special Character Toggles, Defining Special Characters

Selective Display

To define which characters to display, from the main menu click Window → Preferences, expand SlickEdit and click General in the tree, then double-click the General setting and select the Special Characters tab. See Defining Special Characters below.

Note

Viewing special characters is only available for ASCII files.

Special Character Toggles

The following toggles are available on the view menu:

•Hex Toggle

•Line Hex Toggle

•Special Characters Toggle

•New Line Characters Toggle

•Tab Characters Toggle

•Space Characters Toggle

•Line Numbers Toggle

Defining Special Characters

To define what characters to display when viewing special characters, from the main menu, click Window

→Preferences, expand SlickEdit and click General in the tree, then double-click the General setting and select the Special Characters Tab. Enter the character codes that you wish to use.

To view the differences between a DOS format text file and another format when View → New Line Chars is active, choose something other than a space for the End-Of-Line (2) character. Under Win- dows, the recommended choices are 13 for End-Of-Line (1) and 10 for End-Of-Line (2).

To change the colors and styles of special characters, from the main menu click Window → Preferences, expand SlickEdit and click General in the tree, then double-click the Color setting. Select Special Characters from the screen element drop-down list. For more information on color settings, see Setting Fonts and Colors.

Selective Display

Selective Display (also known as code folding) is a convenient way to display or hide regions of your code, so that you can view and manage only those regions that are relevant to your current editing ses- sion.

Use the Selective Display dialog to activate this feature and to specify the type of regions to display or

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