SlickEdit User Guide

Navigating to a Specific Line
NAVIGATION
To view and place the cursor on a specific line number, from the main menu, click Search > Go to Line.
Enter the line number and click OK. Alternatively, you can use the goto_line command in the syntax
goto_line linenumber.
Navigating to an Offset
To seek to a byte offset in the current buffer, from the main menu click Search > Go to Offset, or use the
gui_seek command. This function is the same as the C lseek function. However, if you have opened the
file with tab expansion, the seek position on disk may be different.
When the Seek dialog appears, enter the position to seek for. You may specify a C syntax expression. In
addition, you may prefix the expression with a plus or minus sign (+ or -) to specify a relative seek position.
Some examples are:
• 0x10+10 - Seek to offset 26
• +8+4 - Seek to current offset + 12
• -8+4 - Seek to current offset - 12
Select the Decimal option to enter the seek position in decimal number format. Select the Hex option to
enter the seek position in hexadecimal number format. You can type an “x” as the first character in the
Position to seek for text box and this option will automatically be selected.
Navigating to URLs
SlickEdit® treats URLs in editor windows as hyperlinks, making them easy to identify and open in a Web
browser from within your code. By default, a string is interpreted as a URL if it begins with one of the
following URI schemes, or, URL types (including the colon and slashes):
• file://
• ftp://
• http://
• https://
URLs are underlined. You can navigate to a link by hovering over it with the mouse and using Ctrl+Click
(or Command+Click on the Mac). The link opens in a new Web browser window, or the current browser
window if one is already open. The file:// URI scheme is handled differently—see Handling File URLS
below.
When using the mouse to hover over an http:// link, click the green arrow to open the source code in
SlickEdit.
The URI Schemes node of the Options dialog lets you specify the recognized URI schemes, and makes it
easy to extend this feature. For example, you may want to add a mailto URI scheme so that e-mail URLs
are recognized. To access these options, from the main menu, click Tools > Options, expand Network &
Internet Options, then select URI Schemes. See URI Scheme Options for more information.
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