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The Browse menu

The Browse menu

The Browse menu is for access to operations that move around in and between text files. Groups found in the menu include info and web navigation, Searching, and an interface to the man, apropos, ctags commands.

ENTRIES IN THE BROWSE MENU

Back, Alt Left
Go back to the previous page in the info browser, or go back to the previous marker in an editor window.
Forward, Alt Right
Go back to the next page (i.e. whereever you were before you went back) in the info browser, or go back to the next marker in an editor window.
Stop, Escape
Stop a running filter or external command (by sending SIGTERM).

Search engine..., Ctrl F
Open the search engine panel that allows for wildcard search, multiple target search, confined search, and the selection of text for automatic substitution.
Next target below, Ctrl G
Find the next target. Applies both to quick search and engine search, whichever was used last.
Next target above, Ctrl D
Find the next target, but in upward direction.
Replace, Ctrl H
Swap the contents of the selection and the cut buffer. Used most often after a search operation, but also useful for manual replacement. If the number of fragments in the text is not equal to that in the cut buffer, the entire buffer will be substituted for each of the selected fragments.
Quick search below..., Ctrl Q, Ctrl /
Search quickly for a literal string, without wildcards or substitution. In most cases, quick search will be incremental. For fast manual substitution in combination with quick searching, the Repeat dribble (Edit menu, Ctrl R) operation can be useful.
Quick search above..., Ctrl P, Ctrl ?
Search for a literal string backward in the text.

System manual..., Ctrl M
Find a system manual page. When a word is selected, the manual for that word will be opened. When there is no selection, a box will pop up asking you to specify the title of a manual page.
Apropos..., Ctrl A
List the system manual pages whose description contains the selected keyword. Otherwise similar to system manual.
Edit source..., Ctrl E
On HTML windows (including Edith info windows), this will open the HTML source in an editor window. On editor windows, the source definition of the keyword the cursor is on will be searched using the tags method. If there is no such keyword, an input box will pop up. Source tags can be created automatically using programs such as ctags, or by using Create source tag (Mark menu, Alt Shift H).

Goto line, Alt G
Enter a line number and jump to that line. A sequence of line numbers is also allowed. The previous cursor position, and the any line numbers following the first one entered are marked as in Put marker (Mark menu, Alt P).
Find bracket, Ctrl B, Ctrl %
When the cursor is before or after a bracket (preference to before), moves the cursor to the matching bracket in the text. Brackets matched are (, ), [, ], { and }.

When highlighting is switched on, this function only considers brackets in the same colour and font as the original bracket. This typically has the effect that brackets in comments are skipped when regular brackets are matched (and vice versa) in programming language modes. Some brackets are ignored altogether as they have the highlighting property insensitive to bracket checking.

See also Show matching brackets (Options menu, Alt Shift M).


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