Formatting Shortcut Keys
 
 
 

Press CTRL + E while in an active VLISP text editor window to display a list containing the following editor options.

Text editor code formatting commands

Option

Effect

Indent Block

Indents the selected block of text by adding a tab to the beginning of each line

Unindent

Unindents the selected block of text by removing a tab

Indent to Current Level

Indents the current line to the same level as the previous line of program code

Prefix With

Adds a text string to the beginning of the current line, or to each line in a block of selected lines, after prompting you for the string

Append With

Appends a text string to selected lines of text, after prompting you for the string

Comment Block

Converts a block of code to comments

Uncomment Block

Changes a block of comments to active text

Save Block As

Copies selected text to a new file

Upcase

Converts the selected text to all uppercase

Downcase

Converts the selected text to all lowercase

Capitalize

Capitalizes the first letter of each word in the selected text

Insert date

Inserts the current date (default format is MM/DD/YY)

Insert time

Inserts the current time (default format is HH:MM:SS)

Format Date/Time

Changes the date and time format

Sort Block

Sorts the selected block of code in alphabetical order

Insert File

Inserts the contents of a text file into the current editor window at the cursor position

Delete to EOL

Erases everything from the cursor position to the end of the current line

Delete Blanks

Deletes all blank spaces from the cursor position to the first non-blank character in the line