Various tricks repository

[JJK]

I dare create this post to indicate here any tricks about HippoEdit. I begin :

** Set overview bar visible (menu View/Windows/Overview bar). Then right click on the bar near the right edge of window, you have a contextual menu with "Preferences". You reach directly the Tools/Options/Syntax settings dialog concerning the active syntax. For example you can here change the font.

** Click in status bar on some indicators. Most of them are interactive. Thus you can change directly syntax, encoding, CRLF mode, cursor position, tab size, selection mode, capslock/num/overwrite/scoll mode, and you can see the current character value (code in hexa/decimal notation) and the modified flag for the document.

[JJK]

You can remove any item from most of history lists.
For example, you want to remove some items from history of Find dialog. Click on arrow right to the list "Find what". I suppose this one contains 4 items. Once list is unfolded, put the mouse above one item without clicking while hitting the "Delete" key. Normally the item under the mouse disappears.
Be patient to do the same again for the remaining items.

[Stefan]

Do you know?
You can do things with HippoEDIT in several different ways, for example:

ColumEdit
You can left click on the ruler 
to set an zero-width selection at this point
from top to the last line that is not empty.

Now you can start tipping and the text is inserted into all lines at once.

To add text in front of all line:
left click into the ruler at pos 0 (or more easy, click left of the 0)
Now you can start tipping and the text is inserted into all lines at once.

To remove text again:
left click into the ruler at pos 0 (or more easy, click left of the 0) and drag your mouse
to the right till you have all text you want to remove selected.
Press DEL-key

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Column-Block Selection
Click into the ruler.
Hold Shift-key and click second time at an another place into the ruler.

Or click into the ruler and drag your mouse to the side while still pressing left mouse button

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Select whole text
Hold Ctrl-key and click into the ruler

Or press Ctrl+A

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If the ruler is not visible on top of the document then you may want to enable them:
Tools > Options... > [Syntax Settings] > Default (or set for any syntax separately)

[JJK]

Do you know ?
* If nothing is selected, Ctrl-C (Edit Copy) copies the whole current line. Handy !
   ^{(when Options->Format->Smart Helpers->Easy Line Copy is enabled)}

* Ctrl-Alt up/down arrow moves up/down the selection at once.

* Ctrl-Alt num / reset zoom level at 100%

* Ctrl click upon some word highlights all the identical words through the document !
   ^{(when Options->Code Completion->Smart Highlight is enabled)}

[Stefan]

Do you know?

You can set that the hight of the text cursor will respect the state of the Caps-Lock key.
If Cap-Lock key or Shift is pressed the caret will be taller to indicate this state (see picture below)

Check it out:
Tools > Options...
                  [-] Editor
                   |-- Caret shapes  => General: [X] Case Caret


Related Info: Can I hide the cursor while typing?

[Arthur]

Did you know, you can duplicate a line by clicking Ctrl-D?
You can also duplicate any highlighted text by Ctrl-D too !