SlickEdit User Guide

VIEWING AND DISPLAYING
When Selective Display is active, you can perform the following operations:
• Display or hide lines - Double-click on the Plus (+) or Minus (-) bitmaps. Alternatively, click View
> Expand/Collapse Block, press Ctrl+\, or use the plusminus command. See Expanding/
Collapsing Code Blocks for more details.
• Copy visible text to the clipboard - Click View > Copy Visible or use the
copy_selective_display command. Normally when you copy a selection that spans multiple lines,
hidden lines are copied as well. This command ignores hidden lines and only copies visible text.
This operation does not work with block selections.
• Redisplay all lines and remove the bitmaps - From the main menu click View > Show All
(show_all command).
To define the type of information to show/hide, see Selective Display Regions.
Expanding/Collapsing Code Blocks
SlickEdit® provides a more keyboard-centric way to expand and collapse code blocks. You can expand or
collapse blocks of code by using the plusminus command, whether or not Selective Display Plus or
Minus bitmaps are displayed.
The plusminus command expands or collapses code blocks under the following conditions:
• If the cursor is on the first line of a code block, the block is collapsed, creating a new Selective
Display region.
• If the cursor is on a line that contains a Plus (+) bitmap, the block is expanded.
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