Slick V3.3 manual Other Display Options, Displaying a Vertical Line, Viewing Line Numbers

Other Display Options

The Selective Display dialog also contains static options for expanding/collapsing sub-levels. See Select- ive Display Dialog for more information and details about the available settings.

Other Display Options

This section describes other general display options that you might find useful.

Displaying a Vertical Line

You can choose to display a vertical line in all files that are open for editing. To access this setting, from the main menu click Window → Preferences, expand SlickEdit and click General in the tree, then double-click the General setting. On the General Options dialog, select the General Tab. In the Vertical line column spin box, specify the column number at which you want the vertical line displayed. A value of 0 (default) displays no vertical line. Click on the colored box to the right of this option to change the color of the vertical line.

Viewing Line Numbers

The line number of the current cursor position is always shown in the status line of SlickEdit® Core (along the bottom right edge of the editor). You can also choose to display line numbers in the left gutter of editor windows.

To toggle display of line numbers for the current document, from the main menu click Display → Line Numbers, or use the view_line_numbers_toggle command on the SlickEdit Core command line.

To always display line numbers for any file with a specific extension, complete the following steps:

1.From the main menu, click Window → Preferences, expand SlickEdit and click General in the tree, then double-click the File Extension Setup setting.

2.From the Extension drop-down list, select the extension to work with.

3.Click the General Tab, then click the Display line numbers check box.

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