Slick EDIT V3.3 - Manual (Page 99)

Tagging Tab . When the cursor is in the prototype, pressing Ctrl+Dot will navigate to the func-
tion and vice versa. If you do not set one of these options, you will be prompted with the Select
a Tag Dialog the first time you navigate from a symbol to its definition.
• Auto-close visited files - SlickEdit Core can automatically close a visited file, one that was
opened through symbol navigation but not edited. Click Window
→
Preferences, expand
SlickEdit and click General in the tree, then double-click the General setting. On the General
Options dialog, select the
General Tab , then select the option Automatically close visited
files.
Navigating Between Multiple Instances
If more than one instance of the definition or reference is found, the Select a Tag dialog is displayed, from
which you can select the instance to navigate to. To go to the next occurrence, press Ctrl+G or use the
find_next command. To go to the previous occurrence, press Ctrl+Shift+G or use the find_prev com-
mand.
Alternatively, press Ctrl+Down (next_tag command) or Ctrl+Up (prev_tag command) to place the curs-
or on the next or previous symbol definition.
Using the Find Symbol View
The Find Symbol view (Search
→
Find Symbol) is used to locate symbols (tags) which are declared or
defined in your code. It allows you to search for symbols by name using either a regular expression, sub-
string, or fast prefix match. See
Find Symbol View for descriptions of the options that are available.
More Symbol Navigation Methods
There are several other methods for navigating to symbols:
• The Symbols View shows the symbols for all tag files. Right-click in the view window and select Find
Tag to search for a specific symbol. You can also use the cb_find command to find the symbol under
the cursor and display it in the Symbols view.
• At the SlickEdit ® Core command line, use the f command and completion keys (Space and ?) to enter
a tag name. For example, if tagging the C run-time library, type f str? on the command line for a list of
tag names starting with "str" (such as strcpy, strcmp, etc.).
• To navigate to a Slick-C ® symbol, you can use the fp command (a shortcut for find_proc). If editing a
Slick-C macro, then enter the push_tag command (Ctrl+Dot) to find the symbol at the cursor. The
push_tag command actually calls the find_proc command with the symbol name at the cursor to per-
form the task.
Begin/End Structure Matching
Begin/End Structure Matching moves the cursor from the beginning of a code structure to the end, or vice
versa. This works for languages using curly braces "{ }", "begin" and "end", or any other defined begin/end
pairs.
Code Navigation
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