SlickEdit Corev3.3 for Eclipse, User Manual

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You can use the SlickEdit
®
Core command line to determine what keys are associated with what com-
mands, and vice-versa.
Tip
Alternatively, you can use the Key Bindings dialog (click Window
→
Preferences , expand
SlickEdit and click General in the tree, then double-click the Key Bindings setting, or, use the
gui_keybindings command) to see a list of command/key binding associations. See Key Bind-
ings Dialog for more information.
Determining the Command of a Key Binding
To determine the function of a key or key binding, use the what_is command ( Help
→
What Is Key ). For
example:
1. Click Help
→
What Is Key , or activate the SlickEdit
®
Core command line (by pressing Esc ) and type
what_is (or type what and press the spacebar for auto-completion), then press Enter .
2. The message line will prompt with the text
What is key
. Enter the key sequence in question, and the
message line will display the information. If the key or key sequence is not bound to a command, no
message will appear.
Determining the Key Binding of a Command
To determine the key to which a command is bound, use the where_is command ( Help
→
Where Is
Command ). For example:
1. Click Help
→
Where Is Command , or activate the command line and type where_is , then press
Enter .
2. A dialog will prompt with the text
Where is command
. Enter the command in question. The Eclipse
message area will display the key binding or state that the command is not bound to a key.
Starting a Program from the Command Line (Shelling)
You can use the command line to start a program. Press Esc to toggle the cursor to the command line.
Type the program name and arguments and press Enter . When entering a command that the editor does
not recognize as an internal command, a path search is performed to find an external program to execute.
To use a program whose name contains space characters, enclose the name in double quotes. For ex-
ample, "this is" will start a program named
this is.exe
if it exists.
To get an operating system prompt, type the command dos with no arguments or from the main menu,
click Tools
→
OS Shell .
Command Line Prompting
Starting a Program from the
Command Line (Shelling)
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