Slick V3.3 manual Code Navigation, Symbol Navigation

Code Navigation

Navigation

There are two types of navigation in SlickEdit® Core: Code Navigation, which provides in-depth symbol navigation and structure matching, and Cursor Navigation, which pertains to more simple movements within text and files.

Code Navigation

Some of the most powerful features in SlickEdit® Core are its code navigation methods, particularly Sym- bol Navigation. These features allow you to navigate your code the way you think about it, rather than just as a set of files. If you aren’t using the code navigation features in SlickEdit® Core, then you aren’t getting the most out of the editor.

Symbol Navigation

Symbol Navigation allows you to jump from a symbol to its definition or to a reference with a single key- stroke. A pushed bookmark is set, allowing you to return to the symbol with another keystroke. You can chain a series of these navigation operations together, creating a stack of locations. Then pop your way back to the starting location.

To navigate between symbols use the following operations:

•Go to Definition - To quickly move the cursor from a symbol to its definition, pushing a bookmark in the process, press Ctrl+Dot. Alternatively, click Navigate → Go to Definition or use the push_tag command.

•Go to Reference - To create a list of references and optionally jump to the first one, pushing a book- mark in the process, press Ctrl+/. Alternatively, click Navigate → Go to Reference or use the push_ref command.

•Pop Bookmark - To pop the bookmark and return to the previous location, press Ctrl+Comma. Altern- atively, click Search → Pop Bookmark or use the pop_bookmark command. See Pushed Bookmarks for more information about working with bookmarks.

When you first call these operations, if a tag file does not exist for the current file, it will be built (see Build- ing Tag Files).

Tip

•Procs and prototypes - In C and C++, navigating from a symbol to its definition will prompt you to select whether you want to go to the prototype or the function. You can tell SlickEdit® Core to always go to one or the other by setting one of the options Go to Definition navigates to symbol definition (proc) or Go to Definition navigates to symbol declaration (proto). To set these options, click Window → Preferences, expand SlickEdit and click General in the tree, then double-click the File Extension Setup setting. On the Extension Options dialog, se- lect the extension you want to affect from the Extension drop-down list, then select the Context

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