Creates a new document or shows the New dialog (Figure 30).
Open:
Shows the Open dialog to open a file. The submenu contains the recently used file list.
Reopen file:
Reloads the file, all made and unsaved changes will be lost.
Save:
Saves the active document.
Save As:
Saves the active document under a different filename.
Save all:
Saves all opened documents.
Open from FTP:
Downloads a file from a FTP server.
Save to FTP:
Uploads a file to a FTP server.
Export:
Exports the active document to HTML or RTF. These menu
items are only available when a highlighter is assigned to the active document.
Close:
Closes the active document.
Close All Files:
Closes all opened documents.
Properties:
Shows some properties from the active document.
Print:
Prints the active document to a printer.
Print Preview:
Choose this command to display the print preview of the
file with the focus.
Page Setup:
Shows a dialog (Figure 23) to configure
printing margins (9.1), header and footer
(9.2) etc.
Exit:
Closes the program.
6.2 Edit menu
You'll find a description of the edit commands in section 5.12.
6.3 Search menu
You'll find a description from the search commands in section 5.13.
6.4 View menu
Toolbars:
Displays a list of toolbars and panels which can be
toggled to show or hide.
Status Bar:
Shows or hides the status bar.
Syntax Schemes:
Switches between syntax schemes.
Fullscreen:
This command hides the menu bar, status bar and all the
non-floating toolbars, giving you your entire screen as the main working area.
To go back to normal view use the hotkey (default F11) or the fullscreen menu item
in the context menu from the editor.
Show line numbers:
Shows or hides the line numbers from the editor.
Show Whitespace:
Shows or hides characters such as spaces, tabs
or linebreaks.
Options:
This command displays the Option dialog (Figure 21)
box for changing options and settings which are related to syn itself. The
options are described in section 8.
6.5 Project menu
New:
Creates a new empty project, before you're forced to choose a
filename for the project.
Open:
Opens an existing project. The submenu contains recently used
projects.
Close:
Closes the current project, and all files belonging to this project.
Add to Project:
Adds the active file to the opened project
Add all to project:
Adds all external files to the opened project
Remove from Project:
Remove active file form theproject
Sort Files:
Sorts project files alphabetically.
Options:
Shows a dialog to configure some options, for more information
see 11.
6.6 Run menu
Parameters:
Shows a dialog (Figure 29)
to quickly add arguments to the command line without changing the syntax or
project settings.
Run File:
Starts the default profile associated with the active document
highlighter. This execution profile is defined in options, editor, "name of
the syntax scheme".
Run Project:
Starts the default profile associated with the project.
This execution profile is defined in the project options.
Stop Process:
Terminates a running process you've started with the Run
command or a tool.
6.7 Script menu
Execute:
Shows the open dialog to load a script and execute it.
Run Active:
Runs the active document, assuming it is a script. It takes
directly the text in the editor, so it's not necessary to save it before.
List of scripts
Below these two items appears the list of scripts you
selected to load in Options,Editor,Scripts.
6.8 Tools menu
This is the menu for the tools you've configured. If you haven't configured
any tool yet, you won't see this menu. More information about tools is in
section 5.5.
6.9 Window menu
New Window:
Creates a new window with the text from the active window.
Close:
Closes the document window that has focus. If the document has
been modified, you will be prompted to save it.
Close all:
Closes all document windows. If any document has been modified,
you will be prompted to save it.
Previous:
This command brings the previous document to the front.
Next:
This command brings the next document to the front.
Cascade:
This command arranges all the windows in the main working area
in the familiar cascade pattern.
Tile Horizontally:
This command arranges all the windows in the main
working area so that each is the full width of the working area.
Tile Vertically:
This command arranges all the windows in the main working
area so that each is the full height of the working area.
Minimize all:
Minimizes all opened windows.
Arrange Icons:
This command arranges minimized windows at the bottom of
the window.
Windows:
Opens the Windows Dialog (Figure 37), where
open documents can be activated, saved, closed, cascaded, tiled or minimized.
6.10 Help menu
Help Contents:
Shows this manual in your favorite browser. Check for an
updated version on the web site.
Keyboard Map:
Shows all keyboard commands. You can see the default
commands in section 13.
Email Support:
Sends an email to the users list, when you have some
problems to get help.
syn on the Web:
Some useful Internet addresses regarding syn.
Versions:
Shows the version of some files, which syn sometimes uses.
About syn:
Shows copyright and version information, and a nice bitmap :-).
6.11 Editor popup menu
The popup menu (Figure 14) provides mainly some edit
commands, but also important search commands, and the "Full screen" command. To
show this menu use the right mouse button in the editor.
Figure 14: Editor popup menu
6.12 Window Bar popup menu
This menu (Figure 15) gives you a quick access to
some window related commands, even when this window is not active. You can close,
minimize, save etc. it. To show this menu use the right mouse button on the
desired window tab. If you click with the right mouse button on the Window bar,
but not on a button, you'll show the Window menu (6.9).
Figure 15: Window Bar popup menu
6.13 Workspace popup menu
To show this menu use the right mouse button in the Workspace Window. The project
explorer popup menu contains mainly items which can also be found in the project
menu (6.5). It has additionally two more items:
Open:
Opens the selected file. Alternatively you can use a doubleclick
on a file, or use the Enter key.
Hide:
Hides the workspace window.
6.14 File Explorer popup menu
To show this menu use the right mouse button in the file explorer. The file
explorer popup menu (see Figure 18) contains
only three Items:
Open:
Opens the selected file. Alternatively you can use a doubleclick
on a file, or use the Enter key.
Refresh:
Refreshes the explorer, in case you've deleted
or created files.
Hide:
Hides the file explorer.
6.15 Output Window popup menu
Figure 16: Output Window popup menu
To show the popup menu from the Output window (Figure 16)
use the right mouse button in one of the lists. All lists in the output window have
the same menu, but the commands may act in different ways depending on which list
is visible.
Jump to Line:
When you've started a program with the Run command which
emits a line number, e.g. an errorline from a compiler, you can jump with
this command to the line. When it emits also a filename this command will
also open or activate the file. For more information see section
5.1. You can jump to a search result
from Find in Files in the same way.
Goto previous/next Output Item:
are the same commands as described in
section 5.13.7.
Clear List:
Clears the list.
Copy all:
Copy the entire list to the clipboard.
Copy Line:
Copy the selected line to the clipboard.
Save to File:
Saves the entire list to a text file.
Hide:
Hides the output window.
6.16 Marker popup menu
This is the popup menu of the marker list. You can show it with a right click on
a marker in the list.
Figure 17: popup menu for the Marker List
Jump to:
Opens the file and places the text caret at the position of
the selected marker.
Add Marker:
Shows the marker dialog (12.7,
Figure 36) to add a new marker.
Edit Marker:
Shows the marker dialog to edit the selected marker.
