EditRocket Feature Reference By Menu Grouping
Listed below are the names and descriptions for all features contained in EditRocket
grouped together by the menu in which the features are contained.
File Menu
Edit Menu
Search Menu
Text Menu
Tools Menu
Code Menu
Sidekicks Menu
Inserts Menu
View Menu
Window Menu
File Menu
New: Open a new tab containing an empty editor.
New from Template: Open a new tab containing an editor
filled with the contents of the selected template. EditRocket ships
with dozens of templates for programming languages that EditRocket supports.
Users can add templates using the Add Template menu option under the
New from Template menu.
Open: Open a file from the filesystem, and
load that file's contents into a new tab in the editor. The syntax
highlighting for the file will be set based on the file extension.
Open URL: Opens the contents of a URL,
for example, http://www.editrocket.com/index.html
would return the page source for the EditRocket site.
Open Choose Encoding: Opens a file with the file encoding selected
from the sub-menu. Use this option if you do not want to open the file
using the encoding selected in the Preferences, or if no encoding was
selected in the preferences, the default operating system file encoding.
Close: Closes the currently active text editor tab.
Close All: Closes all tabs.
Close All Except Current: Closes all tabs except the current tab.
Save: Saves the contents of the editor to the
file system. If a file is already associated with the editor, the contents
are saved to that file. If there is a no file associated with the editor,
a dialog will appear prompting the user to select a file to save the contents
to.
Save As: Saves the contents of the editor
to a file on the file system. A dialog will appear prompting the user
to select which file to save the contents to.
Save All: Saves the contents of all of the currently open
editor tabs to the file system. If the tabs are associated with a
file, the contents will be saved to those files. If not, a dialog will
appear prompting the user to select a file to save the contents to.
Save Selection As: Saves the currently highlighted selection
in the editor to a file on the file system. A dialog will appear
prompting the user to select a file to save the contents to.
Save Choose Encoding: Saves the contents of the currently
selected editor to the file system using the character encoding
choosen from the sub-menu.
Recent Files: This menu contains a submenu listing all of
the recent files that were opened by EditRocket. Clicking on one of the
files listed opens a new tab with that files contents in the programming
editor.
Recent Directories: This menu contains a submenu listing all
of the recent directories that were the parents of files opened by EditRocket.
Clicking on one of the directories brings up a dialog with the contents
of that directory, and allows the user to select one of the files
in the directory for opening.
Current Directory: This menu contains the files contained
in the parent directory of the file that is associated with the currently
active tab in EditRocket. If there is no file associated with the currently
active tab, there are no items displayed.
Favorites: The favorites item allows users to bookmark files
or directories so that they can be quickly opened at a later time. To add a
file or directory to the favorites, simply open the file, and select
either Add Current File to Favorites or Add Current Directory to Favorites.
Tools: The File - Tools menu contains the following file tools:
Size: Displays the size of the selected file in megabytes, kilobytes, and bytes.
Get Info: Displays information about the selected file such as its modification
date, type, and size.
Search: Performs a normal or regular expression search on the selected file
and displays the results as the contents of a new editor tab.
Head: Performs a head on the selected file by retrieving the first so many
lines of the file as specfied by the user. The results are displayed
as the contents of a new editor tab.
Get Section: Gets the contents of the selected file from the begin
and end lines specified by the user. The results are displayed
as the contents of a new editor tab.
Tail: Performs a tail on the selected file by retrieving the last so
many lines of the file as specified by the user. The results are
displayed as the contents of a new editor tab.
Rename: Renames the selected file to the new name specified by the user.
Move: Moves the selected file to a new location as specified by the user.
Delete: Deletes the selected file.
Conversions: The File - Conversions menu contains options
for converting the file's line breaks either to Windows line breaks
(carriage return line feed), Unix line breaks (line feed) or
Mac Classic line breaks (carriage return).
Show in Web Browser: Shows the currently active contents
of the programming editor as an HTML page in the default web
browser for the user's system.
Make Backup: Makes a backup of the file in the currently
active tab.
Compare Files: Allows the user to select two files to
compare and then displays the differences of the compared files. This
is similar to the UNIX diff command.
Reload: Reloads the contents of the currently active
editor if there is a file associated with that editor.
Reload All: Reloads the contents of the editors
for all tabs if there are files assoicated with those editors.
Reload Choose Encoding: If the currently active
editor tab has a file associated with it, reloads the editor using
the character encoding chosen by the user.
Print: Allows the user to either print the current
editor tab
contents.
Edit Menu
Undo: Undoes the last operation performed in the editor. Undo
can be re-selected hundreds of times to undo operations in the sequence that
they were performed.
Redo: Redoes the last operation performed in the editor. Redo
can be re-selected hundreds of times to redo operations in the sequence that
they were performed.
Cut: Cuts the highlighted text from the programming editor
and places it on the system clipboard.
Copy: Copies the highlighted text from the programming
editor and places it on the system clipboard.
Paste: Pastes the contents of the system clipboard to the
programming editor.
Select All: Selects all the text in the currently
active editor tab.
Sticky Cut: Cuts the highlighted text from the programming editor
and stores it indefinitely in a special clipboard provided by EditRocket.
Sticky Copy: Copies the highlighted text from the programming
editor and places it indefinitely in a special clipboard
provided by EditRocket.
Sticky Paste: Pastes the contents of the EditRocket sticky clipboard
to the editor.
Delete Menu: Contains many operations for deleting text such as the
following: Delete Word, Backspace Word, Delete Line, Delete to Start of Line,
Delete to End of Line.
Select Menu: Contains many operations for selecting text such as
selecting lines, paragraphs, pages, characters, and words.
Shift Selection Left: Shifts the highlighted selection in the
editor to the left by one tab.
Shift Selection Right: Shifts the highlighted selection in the
editor to the right by one tab.
Previous Word: Moves the cursor in the programming editor to the
beginning of the previous word.
Next Word: Moves the cursor in the programming editor to the
beginning of the next word.
Previous Paragraph: Moves the cursor in the programming editor
to the beginning of the paragraph.
Next Paragraph: Moves the cursor in the programming editor
to the beginning of the next paragraph.
Document Begin: Moves the cursor in the editor to the
beginning of the document.
Document End: Moves the cursor in the editor to the
end of the document.
Date Time: Print the current date and time in the currently
active editor.
Preferences: Displays the Preferences window where users
can edit preferences.
Search Menu
Find / Replace: Displays the Find / Replace dialog. This dialog
allows users to find text in the currently active programming editor
with options such as regular expressions, forward and backward direction,
all lines or
selected lines only, case sensitivity, whole word only search, wrap
search, show found lines, and count all.
Users can also replace found text using the Replace, Replace / Find, and Replace
All buttons.
Find Next: Finds the next search text in the editor. If there
is text selected, Find Next looks for text matching the selection. If not,
Find Next tries to get the last Find done for the current session and looks
for that text.
Find Previous: Finds the previous search text in the editor.
If there is text selected, Find Previous looks for text matching the selection.
If not, Find Previous tries to get the last Find done for the current session
and looks for that text.
Find Selection: Searches for text in the editor using
the current selection as the search parameter.
Replace Range: Replaces a range of text in the editor,
from beginning column
number to ending column number, with text specified by the user. Replace
Range can work on all lines or only the selected lines.
Goto Line: Places the editor cursor at the beginning of the line
number as specified by the user.
Match Bracket: Highlights text in the editor from the first
bracket after the cursor to the matching bracket for that bracket. Brackets
can include parentheses, curly brackets, and braces.
Match Tag: Highlights text in the editor from the first tag
after the cursor to the matching tag for that tag.
Add Bookmark: Bookmarks the current line in the editor.
Next Bookmark: Takes the user to the line in the editor
containing the next bookmark.
Previous Tag: Takes the user to the line in the editor
containing the previous bookmark.
Remove Bookmarks: Removes all of the bookmarks from
the editor.
Find / Replace In Files: Searches for text in files on the file
system. If the find button is pressed, this text is displayed in a window with
clickable icons to take the user to the exact line of text in the file where
the text was found. Users can specify the file type to search in, and the
directory to start the search. There is a match case option, and the ability
to search sub directories.
If the Replace All button is pressed, all found text is replaced with the text
in the Replace With box.
Find in Open Editors: Search for text in the editor
tabs. Found text is displayed in a window with clickable links to take the user
to the exact line of the found text in the appropriate tab.
Text Menu
Tabs to Spaces: Converts the tabs in the current editor
or the tabs in the current selection to their equivalent number of spaces.
Spaces to Tabs: Converts the spaces in the current editor
to tabs or the spaces in the current selection to tabs
using the tab length that is set in the preferences to
determine the conversion.
To Upper Case: Converts the text in the editor, or the
selection of text in the editor to upper case.
To Lower Case: Converts the text in the editor, or the
selection of text in the editor to lower case.
Append Text to Lines: Append text to either all lines
in the editor, or the selected lines of the editor.
Prepend Text to Lines: Prepend text to either all lines
in the editor, or the selected lines of the editor.
Remove Trailing Whitespace: Removes trailing whitespace
from lines, such as spaces and tabs.
Remove Beginning Whitespace: Removes beginning whitespace
from lines, such as spaces and tabs.
Remove Blank Lines: Removes blank lines from the text
in the editor.
Remove Duplicate Lines: Removes duplicate lines from
the text in the editor.
Sort Lines: Sorts the lines in the editor.
Format to Fit Screen: Inserts line breaks into the text
so that the text fits on the current screen. Line breaks are not
inserted in the middle of words.
Wrap at Column Number: Wraps the text at the specified
column number by inserting line breaks. Line breaks are not inserted
in the middle of words.
Unwrap Text: Removes line breaks from the selected text
or all text in the editor.
Word Count: Displays a count of the words, lines, and
characters in the current editor.
Tools Menu
Macros Menu: The macros menu has options for users
to record keyboard macros, and once the macro is recorded, select
the macro for execution. Once there have been macros recorded,
users can use the Macro Selector shortcut to display a list
of available macros for execution.
Key Ahead: The programming editor provides key ahead
functionality that can be invoked by using the control/command K keyboard combination
or the Tools - Key Ahead menu option.
Key Ahead displays a selectable list of items based on the current language type
of the editor. The editor has pre-configured many key ahead items. The user is
also able to add items to the key ahead list for languages by selecting the Key
Ahead tab of the preferences window.
Zip Utility: The Zip utility allows users to view and extract
the contents of Zip or Jar files.
Execute Shell Script / Batch: The execute script option
allows users to execute shell or batch scripts located on their machine.
The output of the script is then displayed to the user.
Execute OS Command (Non-Windows): The execute OS command allows
users to execute operating system commands via EditRocket. This is similar
to opening a terminal appication or command prompt.
ASCII Table: The ASCII table option displays an ASCII table
with information in decimal, octal, hex, and binary format.
Color Chooser: The Color Chooser allows users to choose
colors in HTML Hex or RGB format from a color wheel or by color name.
CSS Validator: EditRocket provides a CSS validator
that calls the W3C CSS validation tool to validate CSS. Users
can choose to either validate the current active editor contents,
or validate a URL.
CSS Style Builder: EditRocket provides a CSS Style Builder
to easily build CSS styles. The builder breaks all style choices down
into related sections and allows the user to preview and build styles
based on the value they enter.
CSS Class List: EditRocket provides a CSS Class List
tool for displaying all CSS classes in the current active editor
in a clickable list.
HTML Validator: EditRocket provides an HTML validator
that calls the W3C HTML validation tool. Users can choose to either
validate the current active editor contents, or validate a URL.
HTML Tag Builder: EditRocket provides an HTML tag builder
that lists all available HTML tags and allows users to customize
the attributes for those tags and then copy the information into the editor.
HTML Tidy: EditRocket has an HTML Tidy tool for formatting
HTML code.
HTML Entity Tool: EditRocket provides an HTML Entity tool
for selecting the appropriate HTML entity corresponding to a special character.
Java Tools: EditRocket provides many Java Tools such as
Method Lookup, Compile, Method List, and Generate Getter/Setter tools
XML Validator: EditRocket provides an XML Validator tool
that can either validate XML syntax or validate an XML file against
a schema.
Code Menu
Utils Menu: The utils menu contains langauge utils for
languages such as C, HTML, Java, and XML, and includes such options
as encoding and decoding URLs, converting selections to hyperlinks, etc.
Builders Menu: EditRocket provides Code Builders for many
programming languages such as C, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, Python,
Ruby, Shell Script, and Transact-SQL. Code Builders allow users to
easily create
code by selecting options from the code builder window. For example,
the PHP Code Builder has information such as function signatures,
function descriptions, and version information on all functions available
in PHP. The Code Builder lets users easily select one of these functions
and insert it into the editor.
Function Lookup: The editor provides function lookup for the
various languages it supports. Function lookup can be used via the function
lookup icon, the control/command L keyboard combination, or the Tools - Function
Lookup menu option.
The function lookup works by determining a list of functions based on the current
language type in the editor and then displaying them in a selectable list.
For example, SQL function lookup would display the SQL aggregate functions.
PL/SQL function lookup would display all of the PL/SQL functions like UPPER,
DBMS_OUTPUT, etc. The Java function lookup would display methods pertaining to
the class type of the variable on which the user is doing the lookup.
Function / Method Navigator: The function / method navigator tool displays a list of
functions contained in the currently active editor. The functions are
determined based on language type. For example, if the language type is
JavaScript, JavaScript functions will be displayed. The functions displayed
have a clickable icon so that users can be taken directly to the position in
the editor where the function is located.
Query Navigator: The query navigator tool displays a list of
SQL queries contained in the currently active editor. The queries displayed
have a clickable icon so that users can be taken directly to the position in
the editor where the query is located.
Tag Navigator: The tag navigator tool displays a list of tags
contained in the currently active editor. The tags displayed have
a clickable icon so that users can be taken directly to the position in
the editor where the tag is located. The tag list is useful when the
language type for the editor is HTML or XML.
Function / Method Selector: This option allows users
to quickly jump to funtions or method by using the keyboard shortcut
for the selector, or by selecting the menu option.
Range Comment: This option inserts a range comment
into the editor, or if there is selected text, wraps the selected
text in a range comment.
Line Comment: This option inserts a line comment
into the editor, or if there is selected text, wraps each line
in a line comment.
Sidekicks Menu
EditRocket provides sidekicks for
many programming languages such as C, C++, C#, CSS, HTML, Java,
JavaScript, JSP, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Shell Script,
SQL, SQL PL, Transact SQL, and XML. The sidekick has options
for coding inserts, utils, tools, and function / method, tag, or
query navigators depending on the programming language of the sidekick.
Coding inserts allow users to quickly
insert common programming constructs for the language they are coding in.
Such constructs could be control statements like loops, if/else statements,
common functions, etc. Utils are the utils included in the Code -> Utils menu.
Tools are tools such as validators, style builders, code builders, etc. The
navigators tab contains the output of the Navigator tools located in
the Code menu.
Inserts Menu
EditRocket provides code inserts for many programming languages. These
inserts allow users to quickly insert common code constrcuts into code
with the click of a button or via a keyboard shortcut. Users can
also add their own custom code inserts using the Add Insert tool.
Inserts have the ability to smart indent when inserted, and sections
of the insert can be highlighted, or the cursor position can be specified
so that the cursor starts at a specific position in the insert.
As an example, EditRocket provides an insert for the If statement for
most programming languages. Clicking the If statement insert inserts the
text for an if statement with the correct indenting, and then positions
the cursor such that the user can begin typing at the appropriate section
of the If statement.
Coding inserts are current available for the following programming languages:
ActionScript, C, C++, C#, CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL,
Python, Ruby, Shell Script, SQL, SQL PL, Transact-SQL, and XML.
If the programming language is not listed, users can add the insert to the
custom section provided by EditRocket.
View Menu
Customize Toolbar: Allows users to customize which icons appear
on the toolbar.
Font: Allows users to customize the font for the text editor
and file system browser.
Increase Editor Font: Increases the editor font by one size.
Decrease Editor Font: Decreases the editor font by one size.
Programming Language: Allows the user to select the programming
language to use for the syntax highlighting and tools such as function lookup
for the current editor. Options includes Batch,
C, C++, C#, COBOL, CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, PHP, Perl, PL/SQL, Python,
Ruby, Shell Script, SQL, SQL PL, Transact SQL, and XML.
File System Browser: Show / Hide the file system browser.
Display Status Panel: Show / Hide the status panel.
Display Line Numbers: Show / Hide line numbers in the text
editor.
Window Menu
Close All Tabs: Close all text editor
tabs.
Close All Except Current: Close text editor tabs except
for the current tab.
Next Tab: Make the next EditRocket tab active.
Previous Tab: Make the previous EditRocket tab active.