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Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Improve Slow Menu Response
Sometimes when you have a project with a large number of makefiles, you may notice that menus are slow to respond. This happens because SlickEdit collects the names of all the targets in each makefile and adds them to menus for build purposes (whether or not you are using SlickEdit to build). To resolve this [...]
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Friday, November 20th, 2009
Aliases
Directory Aliases
If you’re constantly opening files from certain directories, create aliases for those directories to save time. To create a directory alias, from the main menu, click Tools > Options, expand Editing and select Global Aliases. Click New, enter a short text snippet that you can easily remember for the Alias Name, then click OK. [...]
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Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Hey, Check Out My Slick New Editor!
Greg Christopher of VMware has written an article for DevX.com: Hey, Check Out My Slick New Editor!
In the article he discussing some of his favorite features of SlickEdit and why SlickEdit is his code editor of choice for programming.
On objections on switching editors
If your current editor works well enough for you, why switch? The answer depends [...]