Name

Editor — Embedded Scilab text editor

Calling Sequence

      editor()
      editor(file)
      editor([file1, file2])
      editor(file, line_number)
      editor([file1, file2], [line_number1, line_number2])

Parameters

file

a string, the file we want to open.

[file1, file2]

a matrix of string, files we want to open.

line_number

an integer, number of the line we want to highlight at the opening of the file.

[line_number1, line_number2]

a matrix of integer, each opened file will have it's corresponding line highlighted.

Description

Editor is an embedded Scilab text editor.

It can be started with a fresh text buffer pressing the "Editor" button on top of the main Scilab window, or from Scilab command line with the instruction editor(), or it can open specific files if invoked with any of the calling sequences above (whithout any parameters, it opens editor with a blank file).

The same invocation adds further files to an already opened Editor.

Keyboard shortcuts are defined for most possible editing actions and reported by the menu entries.

editor can be started in the following ways :

  • By the menu Applications. Choose Applications => Editor

  • From the command line:

    • editor()

    • editor(file)

    • editor([file1, file2])

    • editor(file, line_number)

    • editor([file1, file2], [line_number1, line_number2])

Menus and Shortcuts

  • Menu File

    Commande

    Shortcut

    Description
    New... <CTRL-N>

    Open a new file
    Open... <CTRL-O>

    Open an existing file
    Recent Files

    Display files recently opened
    Save <CTRL-S>

    Save a file
    Save as... <CTRL-MAJ-S>

    Save a file as
    Page Setup

    Setup page for printing
    Print Preview <CTRL-MAJ-P>

    Open a print preview window
    Print... <CTRL-P>

    Print a file
    Close <CTRL-W>

    Close a file
    Quit <CTRL-Q>

    Close Editor

  • Menu Edit

    Commande

    Shortcut

    Description
    Undo <CTRL-Z>

    Undo action
    Redo <CTRL-Y>

    Redo action
    Cut <CTRL-X>

    Cut the selection
    Copy <CTRL-C>

    Copy the selection
    Paste <CTRL-V>

    Paste the selection
    Select All <CTRL-A>

    Select the entire document
    Delete

    Delete the selection
    Comment Selection <CTRL-D>

    Comment selected lines
    Uncomment Selection <CTRL-MAJ-D>

    Uncomment selected lines
    Tabify Selection <TAB>

    Tabify selected lines
    Untabify Selection <MAJ-TAB>

    Untabify selected lines
    Indent <CTRL-I>

    Indent selected lines

  • Menu Search

    Commande

    Shortcut

    Description
    Find/Replace <CTRL-F>

    Find and/or Replace an element
    Goto line <CTRL-G>

    Goto line

  • Menu View

    Commande

    Shortcut

    Description
    Show/Hide Toolbar

    Option to show or hide the toolbar
    Highlight current line <CTRL-J>

    Highlight the current line
    Line Numbers <CTRL-B>

    Display document's line numbers
    Set Colors...

    Color settings for documents
    Set Fonts...

    Font settings for documents
    Reset default font

    Reset default font settings for documents

  • Menu Document

    Commande

    Shortcut

    Description
    Syntaxe Type

    Syntaxe type settings (default type is Scilab)
    Encoding

    Encoding settings (default type is UTF-8 Encoding)
    Colorize

    Colorize the document
    Auto Indent

    Activate the automatic indentation

  • Menu Execute

    Commande

    Shortcut

    Description
    Load Into Scilab <CTRL-L>

    Load the entire document into the Scilab console
    Evaluate Selection

    Load the selection into the Scilab console
    Execute Into Scilab <CTRL-E>

    If the file exist, execute the content of the file

Remarks

Document :

The default text colourisation is the Scilab's syntaxe colourisation.

The auto-indent mode indent a line according to Scilab's syntaxe (after a return action).

Bugs:

You can reported bugs in the Bugzilla http://bugzilla.scilab.org

There are still a few bugs that we are trying to fix, details can be found in the given link by filtering entries with the "Editor" element.

Examples

 
// editor without parameters
editor();
    
// editor with a file name
editor('SCI/modules/time/macros/datenum.sci');
    
// editor with a matrix of files name
editor(['SCI/modules/time/macros/datenum.sci','SCI/modules/time/macros/datevec.sci']);
    
// editor with a file name and the line number to highlight
editor('SCI/modules/time/macros/datenum.sci', 5);

// editor with a matrix of files name and the corresponding matrix of lines to highlight
// the files name matrix and the lines to highlight matrix should have the same size
editor(['SCI/modules/time/macros/datenum.sci','SCI/modules/time/macros/datevec.sci'], [5,10]);

Author

Sylvestre KOUMAR