The Edit Menu
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The Edit Menu

The Edit menu contains a host of commands, all to work with the currently active document.

Menu Entries

Edit->Undo (Ctrl+Z)

Undo the last editing command (typing, copying, cutting etc.)

Note

If grouped undo is enabled, this may undo several editing commands of the same type, like typing in characters.

Edit->Redo (Ctrl+Shift+Z)

Redo the last undo step.

Edit->Cut (Ctrl+X)

Removes selected text if any, and places a copy of the removed text in the clipboard.

Edit->Copy (Ctrl+C)

Copies selected text, if any, to the clipboard.

Edit->Paste (Ctrl+V)

Copies the first item in the clipboard into the editor at cursor position.

Note

If Overwrite Selection is enabled, the pasted text will overwrite the selection, if any.

Edit->Select All (Ctrl+A)

Selects all text in the editor.

Edit->Deselect (Ctrl+Shift+A)

Deselects the selected text in the editor if any.

Edit->Toggle Block Selection (F4)

Toggles Selection Mode. When the Selection Mode is “BLOCK”, you can make vertical selections, ie select column 5 to 10 in lines 9 to 15.

The status bar shows the current state of the Selection Mode, either “NORM” or “BLK”.

Edit->Find (Ctrl+F)

Launch the Find Dialog to allow you to search for text in the edited document.

Edit->Find Next (F3)

Go to the nearest downwards match of the last text or regular expression searched for, starting from cursor position

Edit->Find Previous (Shift+F3)

Go to the nearest upwards match of the last text or regular expression searched for, starting from cursor position

Edit->Replace (Ctrl+R)

Launch the Replace Dialog to replace one or more instances of a defined text with something else.

Edit->Indent (Ctrl+I)

Adds one indent step to the current line, or all lines covered by a possible selection.

The indentation depends on the settings in the Indent Page of the Configuration Dialog.

Edit->Unindent (Ctrl+Shift+I)

Removes one indent step from the current line, or all lines covered by a possible selection.

The indentation depends on the settings in the Indent Page of the Configuration Dialog.

Edit->Comment (Ctrl+#)

Enclose or prepend the current line, or any selected text, with (a) comment marker(s), according to the rules defined by the syntax rules for the document. Does nothing if no comment rules are defined.

This is interesting mostly when working with source code, for example with C/C++, perl, python etc., as well as with markup text like HTML, XML, CSS and so on.

Edit-> (Ctrl+Shift+#)

Remove comment marker(s) from the current line, or a possible selection, according to the syntax rules for the document.

See also EditComment

Edit->Go to line... (Ctrl+G)

Launches the Go To Line Dialog, allowing you to enter the number of a line to find in the document

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