The action bar allows almost any editor feature to be accessed from the keyboard.
> (shortcut: C+ENTER) displays the action bar at the bottom of the View and gives it keyboard focus. The action bar remembers previously entered strings; see Appendix C, History Text Fields for details.
To use the action bar, input a command and press
Enter. To see a list of all actions, evaluate the
BeanShell expression jEdit.getActionNames() (in
a BeanShell interpreter, not in the action bar).
Each menu item and tool bar button is bound to an action. To find out the name of an action, invoke the menu item or click the tool bar button, and look in the action bar's history.
If a substring or an action name is entered, pressing Tab shows a popup listing matching actions. An action can be selected using the Up and Down arrow keys, or by entering more characters of its name.
Pressing Enter with an incomplete substring invokes the action that would be first in the completion popup's list.
For example, entering d-o will invoke
combined-options, which has the same effect as
invoking >
.
Entering buffer.property=value sets the
value of the buffer-local property named property
to value. Buffer-local properties are documented
in Section 8.2, “Buffer-Local Properties”.
For example, entering buffer.tabSize=4
changes the current buffer's tab size to 4.
See Section 8.2, “Buffer-Local Properties” for information about buffer-local properties.
Entering property=value sets the value of
the global property named property to
value. This feature is primarily intended to help
plugin developers, since the properties jEdit uses to store its settings
are not currently documented.
To repeat a command multiple times, enter a number in the action bar, then press the key-combination that invokes the command. For example, “C+ENTER 1 4 C+d” will delete 14 lines; “C+ENTER 9 #” will insert “#########” in the buffer. Note: The space characters in these examples should not be typed; they are only here to visually separate the keys to be typed.
If you specify a repeat count greater than 20, a confirmation dialog box will be displayed, asking if you really want to perform the action. This prevents you from hanging jEdit by executing a command too many times.