Editing Tools
Code Snippets
Features (preliminary overview)
SnippetPart adds a tool-view which by default docks to the right
Adding, editing and removing of snippets is available via a popup-menu
Double-clicking a snippet form the list inserts it into to the active view at the current cursor position
Tool tips show the content of a snippet
Snippets are stored in the users home-directory, so every user can have his own snippets
Snippets can contain variables in the style of $VARNAME$. On using the snippet the user is prompted to enter replacement value for the variables
Keyboard Mapping
keybindings
In the following, we will list the default keybindings of the
default editor. You can configure them as you like (how?)
Left
Moves one character left
Right
Moves one character right
&Ctrl;
Left
Moves one word left
&Ctrl;
Right
Moves one word right
Up
Moves up one line
Down
Moves down one line
Page Up
Moves up one page
Page Down
Moves down one page
&Ctrl;
Page Down
Moves to the beginning of the file
&Ctrl;
Page Down
Moves to the end of the file
Home
Moves to the beginning of the line
End
Moves to the end of the line
For all the keys above, the &Shift; key can be pressed additionally,
to mark from the current cursor position to the one afterwards.
Backspace
Deletes one character left
Delete
Deletes the character under the cursor
&Ctrl;
C
Copies the selected text to the clipboard
&Ctrl;
V
Pastes the selected text from the clipboard
&Ctrl;
X
Deletes the selected text and puts it into the clipboard
&Ctrl;
Z
Undo
&Shift;&Ctrl;
Z
Redo
The Problem Reporter
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Searching and Grepping
searching
finding
Searching for Text
&Ctrl;F- Find
&Ctrl;R- Replace
ISearch
isearch
incremental search
searchincremental
The conventional search with Edit
Find requires you to specify the full
search term before starting. Most of the time, it is much faster to search
incrementally. If you click into the edit field labeled
ISearch in the toolbar, the search is performed as you
type. You will find that often the desired term is already found after typing
in 3 or 4 letters.
Grep
searchin files
Both search mechanisms described above are restricted to searching within one
source file. An additional tool which allows you to search through a (possibly
large) number of files is available through the
Search in Files... item in the
Edit menu. It is basically a frontend for the
&grep;(1) program.
In the dialog, you can specify which files are searched. There is a number of
wildcard patterns available in a combobox. In this way, you can easily
restrict the find mechanism to header files. Furthermore, you specify a
directory where the search is started. If you check the
Recursive box, the search iterates through all
directories in the hierarchy below this one.
The search term is in general a regular expression following POSIX syntax.
For example, you can use the term "\<K.*" if you want to
find all words which begin with the letter K. The following characters
are interpreted in a special way:
.
Matches any character
^
Matches the beginning of a line
$
Matches the end of a line
\<
Matches the beginning of a word
\>
Matches the end of a word
?
The preceding item matches less than once
*
The preceding item is matched zero or more times
+
The preceding item is matched once or more times
{n}
The preceding item is matched exactly n times
{n,}
The preceding item is matched n or more times
{,n}
The preceding item matches less than n times
{n,m}
The preceding item matches at least n times but less
than m times
Backreferences to bracketed subexpressions are also available by the notation
\n.
For C++ programmers, as special bonus there are some search templates
available for typical patterns. These allow you to search for example
all calls of member functions of a certain object.
Once you start the search by clicking on the Search
button, it will be performed by an external, asynchronous process. All found
items will appear in the view called Grep. You can then
jump to the found items by clicking on them. Note that grep scans the files
as they stored in the file system. If you have modified versions of them in
your editor, you may get some mismatches in the line number, or some found
items will be invalid. You can avoid this by saving all files beforehand.
Code Completion
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Creating New Files and Classes
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Editing the Templates
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