Tools menu (editor)
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Menu item
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Meaning
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Command
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Insert Date
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Inserts the current date, as a formatted string, at the cursor's position in the current file.
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Date
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Grep...
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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".
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Grep
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Make...
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Calls the make utility on a project of your choosing.
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Make
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Execute Shell Command...
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Executes a command to the sh shell. Output will appear at the insertion point in the currently open file.
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ExecuteCmd
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Command to Window...
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Executes a command to the sh shell. Output will appear in a new temporary Editor window.
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CommandToWindow
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Notepad...
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Calls a small Editor window on a scratch file.
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Notepad
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Execute Editor Commands...
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Prompts for an editor command to execute in the current editor. See
Chapter 7, "Editor commands" for valid commands.
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MiniBuffer
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Append TagFile...
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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.
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AppendTagFile
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Reset Tags...
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Resets the tag file the Editor uses back to the default of "tags".
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ResetTags
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Merge Files...
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Merges either two or three files. See
"Merging files" for more details.
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MergeFiles
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Diff Files...
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Finds and displays the differences between two files. See also
"Comparing files".
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DiffFiles
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