Menus
A Pe edit window can have six to eight menus. Two are optional: the Extensions menu only shows up when Pe was able to find extensions during launching, and the BeIDE menu can be switched off with the Preferences Panel.
The File Menu
The File menu contains the following items:
There are no printing items in this menu as yet. I'm waiting with implementing printing until the printing architecture in BeOS is fixed.
The Edit Menu
The Edit menu contains the following items:
The Text Menu
The Text menu contains the following items:
The Search Menu
The Search Menu contains the following items: (See the section on Searching for more info on the extended searching capabilities of Pe. There are also a lot of custom keybindings available for searching, see the Keybinding Preferences for more details)
Find... brings up the Find Dialog.
Find Again tries to find the next occurrence of the find string entered in the Find Dialog.
Find Selection enters the selected text in the Find Dialog and tries to find the next occurrence.
Enter Search String enters the selected text in the Find Dialog.
Replace replaces the currently-found text with the replace string.
Replace & Find Replaces the currently-found text with the replace string and tries to find the next occurrence.
Replace All replaces all occurrences in the current file with the replace string.
Jump to Next Error searches the file for the next occurrence of
File "/a/path/to/a/file"; Line 12
and opens the file and selects the line.
Go To Line... brings up a dialog where you can enter the line number of the line to which you want to move next.
The Extensions Menu
The Extensions Menu contains all the Extensions Pe was able to find when it was launched. See Add-Ons for more info on this subject.
The Window Menu
The Window Menu contains the following items:
File Options... brings up the same dialog as when you click the blue "i" button in the toolbar. Use this dialog to change options such as font family and style, font size, character encoding, line breaks, whether or not to use syntax colouring, show tabs or show invisibles.
Preferences brings up the Preferences Dialog.
Working Directory brings up an Open File Panel with which you can choose a directory. This directory will be the current directory for the next command you will issue from this window.
Stack and Tile arrange the windows on screen.
Zoom zooms the front window.
Worksheet opens the default worksheet for Pe.
Any other item displayed here is the name of an open window. Choose it to bring the corresponding window to the foreground.
The Help Menu
The Help Menu contains the following items:
Help... launches your favourite browser and displays these docs.
About... brings up a window where you can see copyright and other interesting information about this program.
The BeIDE Menu
The BeIDE menu is optional. You can turn it on on the Connections page in the preferences dialog. This menu contains the following items:
Bring to Front which activates Metrowerks BeIDE
Add File adds the current file to the currently opened project
Remove File removes the current file from the currently opened project
Project -> Group opens a Group Window filled with all the files in the currently opened project.
Make tells BeIDE to do a Make.
Next item in this manual is Editing.
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