SlickEdit User Guide

OPTIONS
• Mode name - Allows you to enter a more meaningful name for this extension setup. Define a
mode name here for the Document > Select Mode menu item to work well. See Language Editing
Mode for more information.
• File Extensions - This area displays a list of file extensions associated with the selected
language. See Managing File Extensions for more information.
• Edit These Extensions - Allows you to add or remove file extensions for the language mode. The
language-specific File Extensions dialog is displayed. Click the green Plus button to add a new
extension and use the red X button to delete the selected extension. You can also add an
extension by double-clicking where indicated.
• Truncation - When On or Auto is selected, all editor operations prevent the data from the right of
the truncation line length to be moved or to be modified. For example, search and replace
operations do not find data to the right of the truncating line length. In addition, when a replace
occurs, the data to the right of the truncation line length will not move.
Set this to Auto for the editor to determine the truncation line length based on the record format of
the file. For files that do not have a record format, the truncation length is turned off. For example,
when Auto is on and the record width of the file is 80, 72 is used as the truncation line length (the
record length minus eight).
• Auto CAPS - If selected, and a file is opened that does not contain any lowercase characters,
caps mode is turned on (not the same as caps lock). When caps mode is on, all text is inserted in
uppercase. This feature is intended to emulate ISPF.
• Color coding - The options below affect Color Coding. For more information about working with
this feature, see Color Coding.
o Lexer name - This area shows the active lexer name associated with this language for Color
Coding. The lexer name is predefined for installed languages. For languages that you add to
SlickEdit®, the lexer name can be specified on the Add New Language dialog that is displayed
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