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Working with files
Working with windows
Editing
Searching and replacing
Files comparison
Sessions using
Project description file
Additional capabilities
The editor allows to open one or several files. The maximum numbers of the opened files are very big and limited by the memory volume installed on a computer. The file names for opening may be specified as command line parameter. There are dialogues for files opening Open File and Load File. It's possible to open a file that was specified in the current line Open File From Line.
It's possible to assign a mask in Open/Find Files dialogues. The mask is specified as a part of file name and special symbols * or ?. The mask consists of two parts that is separated by the symbol point. The first part is the file name and the second part is extension (this is a part of name after the most right point). If the extension mask isn't given, it's the file names without extension searching. Each part of mask cannot have more than one symbol *. It's possible to specify several masks for searching that are delimited by symbol ;.
MultiTextor allows to open several files for editing and to switch between them by a Windows List dialogue. In any time it's possible to close the unnecessary window or to open a file in new window.
It's possible to split the program workspace at two parts Split/Merge View and to see two windows with the same or different files simultaneously. It's possible to change the splitter line position Move Split Line and the type of splitter Split Horizontal/Vertical, as well as to switch between windows Change Active View and to work with each of them a fully independent. For the same file in both windows the changes in one window will be simultaneously displayed in the other.
A number of commands are available for editing. All editing commands are putted in a UNDO/REDO buffer and can be discarded, but then repeated back (only UNDO buffer for freeware edition). If the other commands are called after discarding, than the discarded commands are deleted from the UNDO/REDO buffer and the new ones are putted in it.
Working with marked text is named the working with block. The editor supports 3 different types of marking. The stream marking is the standard marking type for many editors. It's text marking between begin and end points. The line marking is marking of one or several lines wholly. The column marking is rectangle marking limited by begin and end points. The marked block is possible to copy and to move both within the current window, and between different windows, as well as to delete. Besides, the block may be copied through clipboard buffer, but marking type will become the standard (stream) type.
For lines editing there are next commands: to delete whole line, to delete beginning of the line and to delete ending of the line.
The editor has built-in capabilities for searching in the opened files and in the files on the disk. There is the Find dialogue for searching in the current file. Besides, there are additional commands: to repeat search Find Again Up, Find Again Down, to search the current word or marked fragment in the current line Current Word Up, Current Word Down. For positioning to any specified line there is the Go to Line dialogue. For searching and replacing there is the Find and Replace dialogue. For searching files on the disk there is Find File dialogue. After the searching files on the disk has finished it's possible to open any found file with Matched Files dialogue. There is Find And Replace dialogue for searching and replacing in current window. For searching and replacing in many files it's possible to call Find And Replace File dialogue. The searching files on the disk will be done first like as for Find File. After that you may select file with Matched Files dialogue, the find and replace mode will be started. The searching and replacing operation is an editing command and is putted in the buffer UNDO/REDO.
The editor has a built-in mode for comparison of two files with a difference highlighting. It's Differ Files dialogue. There isn't in freeware edition. The found differences sometime are not corresponded to your looking-for. It's some features of any comparing algorithm. Such problem appears during editing, when there are moving the parts of the text or insertion/removing a greater text fragments. For more exact searching of difference it's possible to compare only marked parts of the files.
The editor supports working with sessions. The session is saving of the necessary environment that is changed during editing. Session includes next information: a list of the opened files and positions in them, paths for files searching and for files opening, masks of searching/replacing and some other parameter. For new session creating there is New Session dialogue. It's possible to select the path where session configuration file will be saved, and alternate the session name (by default the session file name is .m.smt). As extensions of the session file must be used "smt". While editor is started the session file is checked in the current directory and if it exists, this session will be open automatically. In any time it's possible to open another session with Open Session dialogue, the current session will be saved and closed.
There is possibility of the creation a personal text file with the list of files and commands that is required for working with your project. For instance, the filename with source text is specified in one line, the command for calling of the compiler in other, some remarks in the third. For performing that or other actions it is necessary to go to corresponding line and to call the Open File From Line command or the Exec Shell Command From Line command. Such file is something average between README and BAT files. The project description default file name is .m.dir
The editor has additional commands for simplifying work with source text of programming languages. There are a syntax highlighting, a searching for Match Bracket, a Functions List for C/C++/Java and other like languages. There is bookmark mechanism Random Access, which allows setup 10 quick access points inside one or different files. There is a possibility the recording of the editing commands Start/Stop Record Macro and the following repetition of this sequence Play Macro (absent in freeware edition).