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Menus / Edit Menu |
The Edit Menu provides many standard text-editing operations, such as Cut, Copy, and Paste, as well as Show Last Error, which is useful for debugging RATS programs.
Undo/Redo
Undoes or Redoes the last change to the active window (of whatever form).
Cut
For a text window, copies the selected text to the Clipboard, then deletes the text from the window. You can then Paste the text back into RATS, or into another application.
Copy
Copies the selected text, or the active graph, to the Clipboard.
Copied text can be pasted back into RATS, or into another application. It will paste as unformatted text.
Copied graphs can be pasted into other applications, including word-processing programs, graphics programs, etc. RATS copies graphs to the Clipboard in several formats. Applications with a "Paste Special..." operation will allow you to select which format to use. A bitmap format generally provides the more accurate reproduction of the graph. Graphs cannot be pasted back into RATS. Note that you can also save graphs to disk (using File—Save As...) in a variety of file formats, for later use in RATS or for pasting into other applications. You can re-open graphs saved in RGF format using File—Open.
Copy Special/Copy as TeX
Copies the selected items to the Clipboard in a particular format. Currently, this is used to allow copying the contents of Report Windows as a TeX tabular object.
Paste
Inserts any text stored in the Clipboard into the active window at the current cursor position. This can be text cut or copied from within RATS, or from another application. Text is pasted as unformatted. You currently cannot paste graphs into RATS.
Delete
Deletes the selected text without copying it to the Clipboard.
Select All
Selects (highlights) all lines of text in the active window. Not applicable to graph windows.
Find..., Find Next
Searches for a specified string in the active window.
Searches for a string of text in active window and (if found) replaces it with another string.
To Lower Case
Converts selected text to all lower case letters.
Go to Submenu
Line
Pops up a Go to Line dialog to request a specific line number to which you want to go.
Line (Relative)
Pops up a Go to Line dialog to request a line number relative to the current one to which you want to go.
Marker Submenu
Set Marker
Sets a marker at the current line so you can easily return to it.
Goto Marker
Moves the cursor to the position marked using Set Marker.
Select To Marker
Selects (highlights) all lines of text in the active window between the current position and the one marked using Set Marker.
Indenting Submenu
Indent Lines
Indents the selected lines (you can repeat this operation to indent further). The number of spaces to indent is determined by the Indenting field on Preferences. You might find it easier to use the Edit—Indenting—Prettify operation if you have nested loops.
Unindent Lines
Unindents the selected lines. This trims leading spaces from each selected line, with the number determined by the Indenting field on Preferences. (If a line has fewer leading spaces than that, it is moved all the way to the left boundary).
Indents the contents of DO and DOFOR loops within the selected text. Nested loops will be indented to match the level. The number of spaces in an indenting level is determined by the Indenting field on Preferences. For instance, Edit—Indenting—Prettify will replace
do i=1,5
do j=1,3
disp i j
end do j
end do i
with
do i=1,5
do j=1,3
disp i j
end do j
end do i
Comments Submenu
Format Comments
Useful for turning several lines of text information into a formatted block of comments. This reformats the lines to a consistent length (set with the Comment Length field on Preferences), and inserts * (comment) symbols at the beginning of each line. Use Edit—Undo if you don’t like the results.
Comment-Out Lines
Adds the * (comment) symbol to the beginning of each selected line.
Uncomment Lines
Removes * symbols from the beginning of each selected line.
Show Last Error
Moves the cursor to the line which caused the last error.
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