The Edit Menu

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The Edit Menu

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Commands:

Undo

Undo the last change in the Editor

Redo

Reverse the action of the last Undo command

Cut

Cut the selected text. If no text is selected cut the current line to the clipboard.

Copy

Copy the selected text to the Clipboard. If no text is selected copy the current line to the clipboard.

Paste

Paste the selected text from the Clipboard

Delete

Delete the selected text

Select All

Select all text in the active editor

Read Only

Enable or disable editing in the active editor. Files opened by PyScripter from the Python directory during debugging are read only by default to prevent accidental changes.

Insert Template

Insert a code template in the active editor

The Source Code submenu

Commands:

Indent Block

Indent the selected block of code

Dedent Block

Dedent the selected block of code

Comment out

Comment out the selected block of code by inserting "##" at the beginning of each line

Uncomment

Delete "##" at the beginning of each line of the selected block of code

Tabify

Replace spaces with tabs in the selected block of code

Tabify

Replace tabs with spaces in the selected block of code

Execute Selection

Execute the current editor selection in the interpreter (multi-line selection). If only part of a line is selected, the selection is evaluated and the result is printed in the interpreter window. Finally, if there is no selection, the word at cursor is evaluated.

The Parameters submenu

Commands:

Insert parameter

Select a parameter from a pop-up list and insert it into the active editor

Insert modifier

Select a parameter modifier from a pop-up list and insert it into a parameter in the active editor

Replace parameters

Replace all parameters with their values. If a block of text is selected the command is effected in that block, otherwise it is applied to all text in the active editor.

The File Format submenu

Commands:

Ansi

If checked the active file will be saved in Ansi encoding. Python files may provide an encoding

comment (see Python Source File Encodings)

UTF-8

If checked the active file will be saved in the UTF-8 encoding including the BOM mark.

UTF-8 (No BOM)

If checked the active file will be saved in the UTF-8 encoding without the BOM mark.

UTF-16LE

If checked the active file will be saved in the UTF-16 LE (little-endian) format.

UTF-16BE

If checked the active file will be saved in the UTF-16 BE (big-endian) format.

DOS/Windows

If checked the active file will be saved using DOS/Windows line breaks (CRLF).

UNIX

If checked the active file will be saved using Unix line breaks (LF).

Mac

If checked the active file will be saved using Mac line breaks (CR).

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