SlickEdit User Guide

NAVIGATION
Navigating Between Multiple Instances
If more than one instance of the definition or reference is found, the Select Symbol Dialog is displayed,
from which you can select the instance to navigate to. To go to the next occurrence, press Ctrl+G (Search
> Next Occurrence or find_next command). To go to the previous occurrence, press Ctrl+Shift+G
(Search > Previous Occurrence or find_prev command).
Alternatively, press Ctrl+Down (next_tag command) or Ctrl+Up (prev_tag command) to place the cursor
on the next or previous symbol definition.
Using the Find Symbol Tool Window
The Find Symbol Tool Window (Search > Find Symbol or gui_push_tag command) is used to locate
symbols (tags) which are declared or defined in your code. It allows you to search for symbols by name
using either a regular expression, substring, or fast prefix match. See Find Symbol Tool Window for
descriptions of the options that are available.
More Symbol Navigation Methods
There are several other methods for navigating to symbols:
• The Symbols Tool Window shows the symbols for all tag files. Right-click in the tool window and
select Find Tag to search for a specific symbol. You can also use the cb_find command to find the
symbol under the cursor and display it in the Symbols tool window.
• At the SlickEdit® command line, use the f command and completion keys (Space and ?) to enter
a tag name. For example, if tagging the C run-time library, type f str? on the command line for a
list of tag names starting with “str” (such as strcpy, strcmp, etc.).
• To navigate to a Slick-C® symbol, you can use the fp command (a shortcut for find_proc). If
editing a Slick-C macro, then enter the push_tag command (Ctrl+Dot) to find the symbol at the
cursor. The push_tag command actually calls the find_proc command with the symbol name at
the cursor to perform the task.
Begin/End Structure Matching
Begin/End Structure Matching moves the cursor from the beginning of a code structure to the end, or vice
versa. This works for languages using curly braces “{ }”, “begin” and “end”, or any other defined begin/end
pairs.
To place the cursor on the opposite end of the structure when the cursor is on a begin or end keyword pair,
press Ctrl+] (find_matching_paren command or from the menu click Search > Go to Matching
Parenthesis). The find_matching_paren command supports matching parenthesis pairs { },[ ] and ( ).
TIP For Python, SlickEdit® supports the matching of the colon (:) token and the end of context. See
Begin/End Structure Matching for Python for more information.
Viewing and Defining Begin/End Pairs
Use the language-specific General options screen to view or define the begin/end pairs for any language.
To access this dialog, from the main menu, click Tools > Options > Languages, expand your language
category and language, then select General.
In the Begin/end pairs text field, specify the pairs in a format similar to a regular expression.
NOTE This text box is unavailable (dimmed) for languages that have special begin/end matching
built-in.
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