SlickEdit User Guide

Emulations
EMULATIONS
Emulation is the process of imitating another program. SlickEdit® provides emulations of key bindings for
13 editors so that you can use the style to which you are accustomed, making your coding experience as
efficient as possible.
The Key Bindings option screen allows you see what keys or key sequences are bound to what
commands. Emulation charts are also available in the Help system and as printable PDF documents in the
docs subdirectory of your SlickEdit installation directory. See Key and Mouse Bindings for more
information.
Supported Emulations
This section describes each emulation mode and any special notes. For a list of key bindings that open the
SlickEdit® command line in each emulation, see Activating the Command Line.
• BBEdit
• Brief - This emulation relies heavily on Alt key bindings. In addition to Brief emulation support,
SlickEdit also supports Brief regular expressions. See Brief Regular Expressions for more
information.
• CodeWarrior
• CodeWright
• CUA - CUA is an acronym for Common User Interface, a standard set of user interface guidelines
similar to those used in Microsoft products. This is the default emulation mode used by
SlickEdit.
• Epsilon - This emulation relies heavily on Ctrl+X and Escape (meta) key bindings.
• GNU Emacs - This emulation relies heavily on Ctrl+X and Escape (meta) key bindings. It does
not include an Emacs Lisp emulator.
• ISPF - Support is included for ISPF prefix line commands, the ISPF command line, rulers, line
numbering, and some XEDIT extensions. In addition to the ISPF emulation charts, additional
documentation about using this emulation is available—see Using the ISPF and XEDIT
Emulations.
• SlickEdit® (Text Mode edition)
• Vim - The Vim emulation contains special keys and key sequences that are case-sensitive. A plus
(+) sign separates the simultaneous key presses and a comma (,) indicates sequential key
presses. For example, the key binding Ctrl+w,W, which moves the cursor to the window above,
indicates to press at the same time, the Ctrl key and lowercase w, release, then immediately press
Shift plus w to enter the uppercase W. Another example is the key binding gP, which pastes the
text before the cursor. Press the G key (to enter a lowercase g), release, then press Shift plus p at
the same time (to enter the uppercase P).
TIP SlickEdit supports the vimtutor command. This opens a practice file in the editor that you can
actually edit as you learn Vim commands. See Vim Tutorial for more information.
• Visual C++ 6
• Visual Studio default - The key bindings provided for the Visual Studio default emulation are not
the same as the key bindings used in Visual C++, but there might be some overlap. If Microsoft
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