Press CTRL + E while in an active VLISP text editor window to display a list containing the following editor options.
Text editor code formatting commands
Option
Effect
Indent Block
Indents the selected block of text by adding a tab to the beginning of each line
Unindent
Unindents the selected block of text by removing a tab
Indent to Current Level
Indents the current line to the same level as the previous line of program code
Prefix With
Adds a text string to the beginning of the current line, or to each line in a block of selected lines, after prompting you for the string
Append With
Appends a text string to selected lines of text, after prompting you for the string
Comment Block
Converts a block of code to comments
Uncomment Block
Changes a block of comments to active text
Save Block As
Copies selected text to a new file
Upcase
Converts the selected text to all uppercase
Downcase
Converts the selected text to all lowercase
Capitalize
Capitalizes the first letter of each word in the selected text
Insert date
Inserts the current date (default format is MM/DD/YY)
Insert time
Inserts the current time (default format is HH:MM:SS)
Format Date/Time
Changes the date and time format
Sort Block
Sorts the selected block of code in alphabetical order
Insert File
Inserts the contents of a text file into the current editor window at the cursor position
Delete to EOL
Erases everything from the cursor position to the end of the current line
Delete Blanks
Deletes all blank spaces from the cursor position to the first non-blank character in the line
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