Scinotes: Embedded Scilab text editor (original) (raw)

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Scinotes: Embedded Scilab text editor

Calling Sequence

editor() editor(file) editor([file1, file2]) editor(file, line_number) editor(file, line_number, macro_name) editor([file1, file2], [line_number1, line_number2]) editor(file, 'readonly') editor([file1, file2], 'readonly')

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...		Open a new file
  Open...		Open an existing file
  Recent Files	Display files recently opened
  Save		Save a file
  Save as...		Save a file as
  Page Setup	Setup page for printing
  Print Preview		Open a print preview window
  Print...		Print a file
  Close		Close a file
  Quit		Close Editor

• Menu Edit

  Commande	Shortcut	Description
  Undo		Undo action
  Redo		Redo action
  Cut		Cut the selection
  Copy		Copy the selection
  Paste		Paste the selection
  Select All		Select the entire document
  Delete	Delete the selection
  Comment Selection		Comment selected lines
  Uncomment Selection		Uncomment selected lines
  Tabify Selection		Tabify selected lines
  Untabify Selection		Untabify selected lines
  Indent		Indent selected lines

• Menu Search

  Commande	Shortcut	Description
  Find/Replace		Find and/or Replace an element
  Goto line		Goto line

• Menu View

  Commande	Shortcut	Description
  Show/Hide Toolbar	Option to show or hide the toolbar
  Highlight current line		Highlight the current line
  Line Numbers		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		Load the entire document into the Scilab console
  Evaluate Selection	Load the selection into the Scilab console
  Execute Into Scilab		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();

editor('SCI/modules/time/macros/datenum.sci');

editor(['SCI/modules/time/macros/datenum.sci','SCI/modules/time/macros/datevec.sci']);

editor('SCI/modules/time/macros/datenum.sci', 5);

editor('SCI/modules/time/macros/datenum.sci', 8, 'datenum');

editor(['SCI/modules/time/macros/datenum.sci','SCI/modules/time/macros/datevec.sci'], [5,10]);

Author

Sylvestre KOUMAR

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