Setting the paren match style, Cursor navigation, Navigating in pages and files – Slick EDIT V3.3 User Manual
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Setting the Paren Match Style
As you type a closing parenthesis, highlight and matching options are available. To specify these options,
click Window
→
Preferences, expand SlickEdit and click General in the tree, then double-click the Gen-
eral setting. On the General Options dialog, select the
, then select one of the Paren match
style options.
The Highlight style option temporarily block-selects the text within the parenthesis pair. The Cursor to
Begin Pair style option temporarily places the cursor on the matching begin parenthesis.
Select Highlight matching blocks to automatically highlight the corresponding parenthesis, brace,
bracket, or begin/end word pairs under the cursor. To customize the highlighting color, click Window
→
Preferences, expand SlickEdit and click General in the tree, then double-click the Color setting. Select
the Block Matching screen element. To adjust the delay in milliseconds before the highlighting is up-
dated, go to Macro
→
Set Macro Variable and modify the variable def_match_paren_idle. See
and
for more information.
Cursor Navigation
These cursor navigation methods pertain to simple cursor movement within files. We recommend creating
key bindings for commands that you use frequently (if a key binding doesn’t already exist by default).
Navigating in Pages and Files
The following commands control cursor navigation in pages and files:
• top_of_window/bottom_of_window (Ctrl+PgUp/Ctrl+PgDn) - Places the cursor at the top/bottom of
the current editor window.
• top_of_buffer/bottom_of_buffer (Ctrl+Home/Ctrl+End) - The top_of_buffer command places the
cursor at the first line and first column of the current buffer. The bottom_of_buffer command places
the cursor at the end of the last line of the current buffer. If the option Preserve column on top/bottom
is on (click Window
→
Preferences, expand SlickEdit and click General in the tree, double-click the
General setting and select the
), the cursor is placed at the first line/last line of the buffer and
the column position is unchanged.
Tip
There is an option to make top_of_buffer/bottom_of_buffer push a bookmark, providing quick
navigation between the top/bottom of the buffer and the previous location. See
for more information.
• top_left_of_window/bottom_left_of_window - Places the cursor at the top left/bottom right of the cur-
rent editor window.
• page_up/page_down (PgUp/PgDn) - Moves the cursor to the previous/next page of text.
• page_left/page_right - Changes the left edge scroll position by half the window width to the left/right.
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