Slick V3.3 manual Tip

General Options Dialog

wise, the editing mode is set to replace.

•Throw away file lists - If selected, the modified File Manager file lists can be modified and closed without being prompted to save.

•Auto exit build window - If selected, the concurrent build window is automatically exited when the buf- fer is closed or when exiting the editor.

•Edit "A B C" start on file A - If selected, the first file opened becomes the active buffer.

•Short key names - If selected, key names in the MDI menu bar are condensed (non-CUA). For long CUA key names, clear this check box.

•Reflow next - If selected, the reflow_paragraph command places the cursor on the next paragraph after it has reformatted the current paragraph. Otherwise, the cursor is kept at the same location within the current paragraph.

•Protect read-only mode - If selected, the editor will not let you modify a file that is in read-only mode. The save command always prompts for a different output file name if the file is in read-only mode.

•CUA text box - If selected, the keys Ctrl+X, Ctrl+C, and Ctrl+V perform cut, copy, and paste com- mands respectively for a text box other than the command line. In addition, the dialog manager takes over the keys Alt+A through Alt+Z for selecting controls.

Note

Do not mark this check box if you want all of the keys to operate the same in a text box as they do in the command line and edit windows.

•Paren match style - This feature always uses fast brace matching. Select from the following options (the first three are mutually exclusive):

•Highlight - When selected, typing a closing parenthesis temporarily block-selects the text within the parenthesis pair.

•Cursor to begin paren - When selected, typing a closing parenthesis temporarily places the cursor on the matching begin parenthesis.

•None - When selected, typing a closing parenthesis just inserts the close parenthesis.

•Highlight matching blocks - When selected, the corresponding parenthesis, brace, bracket, or be- gin/end word pairs under the cursor are automatically highlighted.

Tip

To customize the highlighting color, go to Window → Preferences, expand SlickEdit and click General in the tree, then double-click the Color setting. Select the Block Matching screen ele- ment. To adjust the delay in milliseconds before the highlighting is updated, go to Macro → Set Macro Variable and modify the variable def_match_paren_idle. See Setting Colors for Screen

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