SlickEdit User Guide

THE SLICKEDIT® COMMAND LINE
The following table contains a partial list of user interface commands and their command line counterparts.
Graphical Command Command Line Version
gui_open edit
gui_find find
gui_replace replace
gui_write_selection put
gui_append_selection append
gui_margins margins
gui_tabs tabs
gui_find_proc find_proc
Common SlickEdit® Commands
Commands are essentially the names of functions. The Help system contains a list of macro functions,
organized into categories (see Help > Contents > Macro Functions by Category). The following is a list
of twenty commands that we use frequently in our own work, which you may also find useful.
1. e file Edit a file
2. sa file Save file as
3. number Go to line number
4. f symbol Find a symbol
5. /search_string/options Search for a string
6. c/search/replace/options Replace a string
7. gt/search/options Substring search for a symbol
8. sb name Set a bookmark
9. gb name Jump to a bookmark
10. help topic View Help on topic
11. man command Show UNIX man page
12. cd directory Change directory
13. dir directory Show directory in the File Manager
14. list wildcards Show directory tree in the File Manager
15. del filename Delete file
16. pushd directory Push directory
17. popd Pop directory
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