Advanced Code Editor

The .Edit text editor has a variety of time saving features, designed to increase your productivity - spend less time typing and more time achieving your aims.

Code Assistant

The Code Assistant prompts you with a list of possible options as you are typing. These vary depending on the language. Current .Edit supports the following Code Assistants:

Web Markup and Scripting

If you are editing HTML, ASP or PHP you can benefit from the Tag Assistant. This will automatically prompt you with HTML tag names, attributes and values as you are typing HTML code.

If you select a colour attribute, .Edit will show a colour-selection box - you no longer need to work with HTML colour values.

JavaScript Code Assistant

.Edit also includes a JavaScript Code Assistant, which will prompt you with object properties, events and methods when you are editing JavaScript files or a script section within HTML files.

ASP Code Assistant

In addition to the JavaScript and HTML code assistants, .Edit now includes an ASP assistant. For example, typing Response. will bring up a list of all Response object properties.

Java

A set a of Java IDE tools are available separately. This are currently undergoing testing but are available on request. Included with these tools is a Java Code Assistant.

Auto Complete

Auto complete is a similar technology to that used in applications such as Microsoft Word. It can be invaluable when coding, as you can rapidly reduce the time spent laboriously entering structural elements.

Quick Access Toolbars

The quick-access toolbars give you common code structures on a multi-tabbed toolbar. For HTML files this means that image and Java applet tags are just a click away. The JavaScript toolbar provides code snippets such as an "if" statement. The most commonly used structures have keyboard shortcut keys assigned to them, so you will rarely need to touch the mouse.

Quick Clipboards

A single system clipboard is rarely enough, so an additional 8 are available on the toolbar. These quick clipboards appear as blue clipboard icons. You can store code snippets in them for use later. Each clipboard can be accessed from the keyboard by pressing Ctrl+Shift+C, Ctrl+Shift+X and Ctrl+Shift+V followed by the clipboard number (1-8) to copy, cut and paste respectively.