Editor

Arguments

file

a string, the file to be opened.

[file1, file2]

a matrix of string, files to be opened.

line_number

An integer, the number of the line to be highlighted at the opening of the file.

macro_name

a string, the line number would be relative to the definition of the function macro_name

[line_number1, line_number2]

a matrix of integer, each opened file will have its corresponding line highlighted.

Description

Scinotes is an embedded Scilab text editor.

It can be started with a fresh text buffer pressing the "Editor" button on top of the main Scilab window, or from Scilab command line with the instruction editor(), or it can open specific files if invoked with any of the calling sequences above (whithout any parameters, it opens editor with a blank file).

The same invocation adds further files to an already opened Editor.

With the option 'readonly', files are opened in read-only mode so they cannot be modified.

Keyboard shortcuts are defined for most possible editing actions and reported by the menu entries.

editor can be started in the following ways :

• By the menu Applications. Choose Applications => Editor

• From the command line:

  • editor()

  • editor(file)

  • editor([file1, file2])

  • editor(file, line_number)

  • editor([file1, file2], [line_number1, line_number2])

Menus and Shortcuts

• Menu File

  Commande	Shortcut	Description
  New...	<CTRL-N>	Open a new file
  Open...	<CTRL-O>	Open an existing file
  Recent Files		Display files recently opened
  Save	<CTRL-S>	Save a file
  Save as...	<CTRL-MAJ-S>	Save a file as
  Page Setup		Setup page for printing
  Print Preview	<CTRL-MAJ-P>	Open a print preview window
  Print...	<CTRL-P>	Print a file
  Close	<CTRL-W>	Close a file
  Quit	<CTRL-Q>	Close Editor

• Menu Edit

  Commande	Shortcut	Description
  Undo	<CTRL-Z>	Undo action
  Redo	<CTRL-Y>	Redo action
  Cut	<CTRL-X>	Cut the selection
  Copy	<CTRL-C>	Copy the selection
  Paste	<CTRL-V>	Paste the selection
  Select All	<CTRL-A>	Select the entire document
  Delete		Delete the selection
  Comment Selection	<CTRL-D>	Comment selected lines
  Uncomment Selection	<CTRL-MAJ-D>	Uncomment selected lines
  Tabify Selection	<TAB>	Tabify selected lines
  Untabify Selection	<MAJ-TAB>	Untabify selected lines
  Indent	<CTRL-I>	Indent selected lines

• Menu Search

  Commande	Shortcut	Description
  Find/Replace	<CTRL-F>	Find and/or Replace an element
  Goto line	<CTRL-G>	Goto line

• Menu View

  Commande	Shortcut	Description
  Show/Hide Toolbar		Option to show or hide the toolbar
  Highlight current line	<CTRL-J>	Highlight the current line
  Line Numbers	<CTRL-B>	Display document's line numbers
  Set Colors...		Color settings for documents
  Set Fonts...		Font settings for documents
  Reset default font		Reset default font settings for documents

• Menu Document

  Commande	Shortcut	Description
  Syntax Type		Syntax type settings (default type is Scilab)
  Encoding		Encoding settings (default type is UTF-8 Encoding)
  Colorize		Colorize the document
  Auto Indent		Activate the automatic indentation

• Menu Execute

  Commande	Shortcut	Description
  Load Into Scilab	<CTRL-L>	Load the entire document into the Scilab console
  Evaluate Selection		Load the selection into the Scilab console
  Execute Into Scilab	<CTRL-E>	If the file exist, execute the content of the file

Remarks

Document :

The default text colorization is the Scilab's syntax colorization.

The auto-indent mode indent a line according to Scilab's syntax (after a return action).

Examples

// editor without parameters
editor();
    
// editor with a file name
editor('SCI/modules/time/macros/datenum.sci');
    
// editor with a matrix of files name
editor(['SCI/modules/time/macros/datenum.sci','SCI/modules/time/macros/datevec.sci']);
    
// editor with a file name and the line number to highlight
editor('SCI/modules/time/macros/datenum.sci', 5);

// editor with a file name and the line number to highlight
editor('SCI/modules/time/macros/datenum.sci', 8, 'datenum');

// editor with a matrix of files name and the corresponding matrix of lines to highlight
// the files name matrix and the lines to highlight matrix should have the same size
editor(['SCI/modules/time/macros/datenum.sci','SCI/modules/time/macros/datevec.sci'], [5,10]);

Author

Sylvestre KOUMAR

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