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Menu item Meaning Command
Insert Date
Inserts the current date, as a formatted string, at the cursor's position in the current file.
Date
Grep...
Searches for a regular expression in all open files. (If you have a debugger open when you run this command, it will also search in all of your program's source files.) The output from this command appears in a temporary Editor window. Double click any of the lines in the temporary window to open a new Editor on the specified file. See also "Grep".
Grep
Make...
Calls the make utility on a project of your choosing.
Make
Execute Shell Command...
Executes a command to the sh shell. Output will appear at the insertion point in the currently open file.
ExecuteCmd
Command to Window...
Executes a command to the sh shell. Output will appear in a new temporary Editor window.
CommandToWindow
Notepad...
Calls a small Editor window on a scratch file.
Notepad
Execute Editor Commands...
Prompts for an editor command to execute in the current editor. See Chapter 7, "Editor commands" for valid commands.
MiniBuffer
Append TagFile...
Allows you to specify a tag file (in the format determined by the ctag utility) that the Editor can use to find procedures in files. By default, the Editor looks for a file called "tags". See the command "OpenTag" for more information.
AppendTagFile
Reset Tags...
Resets the tag file the Editor uses back to the default of "tags".
ResetTags
Merge Files...
Merges either two or three files. See "Merging files" for more details.
MergeFiles
Diff Files...
Finds and displays the differences between two files. See also "Comparing files".
DiffFiles

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