Archive for June, 2009

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

The SlickEdit Command Line

Use SlickEdit commands instead of the mouse to save time as you work. Open the SlickEdit command line by pressing Esc (in most emulations), type the command and any options, then press Enter. If you use a command frequently, bind it to a keyboard shortcut to save even more time. Type “Slickedit command line” in [...]

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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Why does SlickEdit insert “/**/” when I type “/*” ?

This is to make it possible to create a multi-line comment without temporarily commenting out all the code from the /* to the end of the file or to the end of  the next already existing multi-line comment.  This makes it possible to keep your file in a syntacticly correct state.  This allows you to [...]

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Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Clipboard Formats

SlickEdit supports RTF and HTML clipboard formats for Windows. This means you can paste formatted and color-coded text from SlickEdit into other applications. The HTML clipboard format type is enabled by default. You can change to the RTF format or turn the feature off completely using the Clipboard formats option (located at Tools > Options [...]

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