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/*!
\contentspage index.html
\previouspage creator-editor-functions.html
\page creator-coding-navigating.html
\nextpage creator-highlighting.html
\title Working in Edit Mode
This section describes how to use the \gui Edit mode. For more information
about using the sidebar, see \l{Browsing Project Contents}.
\section1 Using the Editor Toolbar
The editor toolbar is located at the top of the editor view. The editor
toolbar is context sensitive and shows items relevant to the file currently
open in the editor.
\image qtcreator-editortoolbar-symbols.png
Use the toolbar to navigate between open files and symbols in use.
To browse backward or forward through your location history, click
\inlineimage qtcreator-back.png
(\gui {Go Back}) and \inlineimage qtcreator-forward.png
(\gui {Go Forward}).
To go to any open file, select it from the \gui{Open files} drop-down menu (1).
Right-click the menu title and select \gui {Copy Full Path to Clipboard} to
copy the path and name of the current file to the clipboard.
To jump to any symbol used in the current file, select it from the
\gui Symbols drop-down menu (2). By default, the symbols are displayed in the
order in which they appear in the file. Right-click the menu title and
select \gui {Sort Alphabetically} to arrange the symbols in alphabetic
order.
To jump to a line and column in the current file, select the line and column
indicator (3) or press \key {Ctrl+L} (or \key {Cmd+L} on Mac OS X) to open
the locator. Enter the line number and column number in the locator,
separated by a colon (:).
To show the file encoding of the current file on the editor toolbar (4),
select \gui Tools > \gui Options > \gui {Text Editor} > \gui Display >
\gui {Display file encoding}.
\note Other convenient ways of navigating in \QC are provided by the
\l{Searching with the Locator}{locator}, \l{Keyboard Shortcuts}
{keyboard shortcuts}, and the \l{Browsing Project Contents}{sidebar}.
\section1 Splitting the Editor View
Split the editor view or open the editor in a new window when you want to
work on and view multiple files on the same screen or on multiple screens.
\image qtcreator-spliteditorview.png
You can view multiple files simultaneously in the following ways:
\list
\li To split the editor view into a top and bottom view, select
\gui Window > \gui Split, press \key{Ctrl+E, 2}, or select the
\inlineimage qtcreator-split-button.png
(\gui Split) button and then select \gui Split.
Split command creates views below the currently active editor view.
\li To split the editor view into adjacent views, select
\gui Window > \gui{Split Side by Side}, press \key{Ctrl+E, 3}, or
select \gui {Split > Split Side by Side}.
Side by side split command creates views to the right of the
currently active editor view.
\li To open the editor in a detached window, press \key{Ctrl+E, 4}, or
select \gui Window > \gui {Open in New Window}.
The new window behaves basically in the same way as the editor area
in the main window. For example, you can split this window, as well.
Documents are opened in the currently active editor window.
\endlist
To move between split views and detached editor windows, select \gui Window
> \gui{Go to Next Split or Window} or press \key{Ctrl+E, O}.
To remove a split view, place the cursor within the view you want to
remove and select \gui Window > \gui{Remove Current Split}, press
\key{Ctrl+E, 0}, or select the
\inlineimage qtcreator-remove-split-button.png
(\gui {Remove Split}) button. To remove all but the currently selected split
view,
select \gui Window > \gui{Remove All Splits} or press \key{Ctrl+E, 1}.
\section1 Using Bookmarks
To insert or delete a bookmark:
\list
\li Right-click the line number and select \gui{Toggle Bookmark}.
\li Press \key Shift and click the left margin at a line.
\li Press \key{Ctrl+M} when the cursor is on a line.
\endlist
\image qtcreator-togglebookmark.png
To add a note to a bookmark, right-click the bookmark and select
\gui{Edit Bookmark Note}. To view the note, move the mouse pointer over the
bookmark.
To go to previous bookmark in the current session, press \key{Ctrl+,}.
To go to next bookmark in the current session, press \key{Ctrl+.}.
\section1 Moving to Symbol Definition or Declaration
You can move directly to the definition or the declaration of a symbol by
holding the \key Ctrl and clicking the symbol. If you have multiple splits
opened, you can open the link in the next split by holding \key Ctrl and
\key Alt while clicking on the symbol.
To enable this moving function, in \gui Tools > \gui{Options} >
\gui{Text Editor} > \gui Behavior, select \gui{Enable mouse navigation}.
You can also select the symbol and press \key F2, or right-click the symbol
and select \gui {Follow Symbol Under Cursor} to move to its definition or
declaration. This feature is supported for namespaces, classes, functions,
variables, include statements, and macros.
To switch between the definition and declaration of a function, place the
cursor on either and press \key {Shift+F2} or right-click and select \gui
{Switch Between Function Declaration/Definition}. For example, this allows
you to navigate from anywhere within a function body directly to the function
declaration.
Links are opened in the same split by default. To open links in the next
split, prepend \key {Ctrl+E} to the shortcut. For example, press \key {Ctrl+E,F2}
to follow the symbol in the next split. If necessary, the view is
automatically split. To change the default behavior, select \gui Tools >
\gui{Options} > \gui{Text Editor} > \gui Display, and then select
\gui{Always Open Links in Next Split}. Additional symbols are displayed and
switching between definition and declaration is done in another split.
If you change the default behavior, the shortcuts for opening link targets
in the next split are used to open them in the current split.
\section1 Reparsing Externally Changed Files
If source files are modified from outside \QC, the opened files will be
reparsed automatically. For all other files, you can use \gui{Tools} >
\gui{C++} > \gui{Reparse Externally Changed Files} to update the code
model.
*/
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