Edit in Text Format Command (File Menu)

Edit a document in text format.

The command opens a window that allow you to view as well as edit the currently active selected document in text format. The document can be text file or binary file of a Project, Program, System or a Driver file.

Text format can be used for viewing the whole document with one window. The text editor window allows the user to search for strings, type text and change the document, cut, copy and paste text, place bookmarks and more. After changes were made clicking Save from the editor window toolbar will save the text document to the original file preserving the original document file format (binary or text).

If the text editor window was closed and changes were saved to a file. ATEasy will prompts whether to reload the modified document.  Clicking on Yes will cause ATEasy to close all windows displaying the document and to reload the document. Selecting No will ATEasy to maintain the IDE document as is causing any future Save commands to that file to discard the changes made in the text editor.

Note that while editing a document in text format, the other frames showing that document will be in read-only mode to avoid the iuser making changes in both the text format and in the normal editing frames.

v10 - the text editor is now inside the ATEasy IDE, you can use find, replace operations and go to line dialog, you can also show line numbers next to each line (see Text Editor Options).

The following image shows a program in text format (left window) and in binary format (right window), the right window is in read-only mode since Edit in Text Mode (and not View in Text Mode) command was invoked: