Editing Text

Move text using drag & drop

You can use the mouse to move or copy text within a document, as follows:

To move selected text

1. Hold the Left mouse button down in the selection.
2. Drag the cursor to the new location.
3. Release the mouse button.

To copy selected text

1. Hold down Ctrl and Left mouse button in the selection.
2. Drag the cursor to the new location.
3. Release the mouse button.

To cancel a drag-drop operation

1. Press Esc, or
2. Click the Right mouse button, or
3. Release the mouse button in the selection.

Indent and unindent text

You can easily increase and decrease text indent to format your code.

To increase text indent

1. Select the text you wish to indent
2. On the Edit menu, click Increase Indent or press Shift+Ctrl+I

To decrease text indent

1. Select the text you wish to unindent
2. On the Edit menu, click Decrease Indent or press Shift+Ctrl+U

Check spelling

To check spelling in the current document

• On the Tools menu, click Spelling Check.
• For each word that is not recognized a dialog box will appear.
• In the Spelling dialog box:
  • To change unrecognized word with replacement in Change to box, click Change.
  • To ignore unrecognized word, click Ignore.
  • To ignore all unrecognized words and complete spelling check, click Ignore All.
  • To make the word recognized, click Add to add it to dictionary.
  • To abort spelling check, click Cancel.

Using Extended Clipboard

Extended clipboard will collect items as you copy and cut. You can then paste them or drag them into your document.

To view extended clipboard contents, on the Edit menu, click Extended Clipboard. Panel Clipboard will appear.

To insert an item from extended clipboard into your document, just drag it from Clipboard panel to the desired location in your text.

Realtime Syntax Check

Realtime Syntax Check allows you to have the syntax checked automatically while you are editing the code. The realtime syntax check executer is initiated on the event of a line count change in a file (ie. when deleting or inserting lines).

Currently Realtime Syntax Check supports following languages:

• PHP
• Ruby

To turn this feature on or off

• On the Options menu, click Preferences.
• In Preferences window, click PHP (Ruby) Settings folder.
• Mark or unmark the Enable Realtime PHP (Ruby) Syntax Check option.
• Make sure you have entered correct path for the PHP (Ruby) executable under the same window in preferences (php.exe or ruby.exe respectively).
• Click OK.