Slick V3.3 manual Common SlickEdit Core Commands, Common SlickEdit Core Com Mands

Common SlickEdit® Core Com-

mands

Many commands that display dialog boxes have equivalent commands that prompt for arguments on the command line or on the Eclipse message area. For faster prompting than the dialog boxes allow, you can choose to be prompted for arguments on the command line instead. To set this option, 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, then select the option Com- mand line prompting. To be more selective than this option permits, change the key bindings. For ex- ample, to be prompted only on the command line when opening files, bind the edit command to Ctrl+O, which is bound to the gui_open command by default.

The following table contains a partial list of user interface commands and their command line counter- parts.

Table 3.1. UI Commands vs. Command Line Counterpart

Graphical Command	Command Line Version
gui_open	edit
gui_find	find
gui_replace	replace
gui_write_selection	put
gui_append_selection	append
gui_margins	margins
gui_tabs	tabs
gui_find_proc	find_proc

Common SlickEdit® Core Commands

Commands are essentially the names of functions. The following is a list of commands that we use fre- quently in our own work, which you may also find useful.

Table 3.2. Common SlickEdit Core Commands

Command

Description

efile

Edit a file

number

Go to line number

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