LispWorks Editor User Guide

Copyright and Trademarks

1 - Introduction

1.1 - Using the editor within LispWorks

1.1.1 - About this manual

2 - General Concepts

2.1 - Window layout

2.1.1 - Windows and panes

2.1.2 - Files and buffers

2.1.3 - The mode line

2.2 - Buffer locations

2.2.1 - Points

2.2.2 - Marks

2.2.3 - Regions

2.3 - Modes

2.4 - Text handling concepts

2.4.1 - Words

2.4.2 - Sentences

2.4.3 - Paragraphs

2.5 - Executing commands

2.5.1 - Keys -- Ctrl and

2.5.2 - Two ways to execute commands

2.5.3 - Prefix arguments

2.6 - Basic editing commands

2.6.1 - Aborting commands and processes

2.6.2 - File handling

2.6.3 - Inserting text

2.6.4 - Movement

2.6.5 - Deleting and killing text

2.6.6 - Undoing

2.6.7 - Killing and Yanking

2.6.8 - Help

3 - Command Reference

3.1 - Aborting commands and processes

3.2 - Executing commands

3.3 - Help

3.3.1 - The help command

3.4 - Prefix arguments

3.5 - File handling

3.5.1 - Finding files

3.5.2 - Saving files

3.5.3 - Auto-saving files

3.5.4 - Backing-up files on saving

3.5.5 - Miscellaneous file operations

3.6 - Movement

3.7 - Marks and regions

3.7.1 - Marks

3.7.2 - Regions

3.8 - Deleting and killing text

3.8.1 - Deleting Text

3.8.2 - Killing text

3.9 - Inserting text

3.10 - Undoing

3.11 - Case conversion

3.12 - Transposition

3.13 - Overwriting

3.14 - Indentation

3.15 - Filling

3.15.1 - Fill commands

3.15.2 - Auto-fill mode

3.16 - Buffers

3.17 - Windows

3.18 - Pages

3.19 - Searching and replacing

3.19.1 - Searching

search-files

3.19.2 - Regular expression searching

3.19.3 - Replacement

3.20 - Registers

3.21 - Modes

3.21.1 - Major modes

3.21.2 - Minor modes

3.21.3 - Defining modes

defmode

3.22 - Abbreviations

3.23 - Keyboard macros

3.24 - Echo area operations

3.24.1 - Completing commands

3.24.2 - Repeating echo area commands

3.24.3 - Movement in the echo area

3.24.4 - Deleting and inserting text in the echo area

3.25 - Editor variables

3.26 - Recursive editing

3.27 - Key bindings

3.28 - Buffers, windows and the mouse

3.28.1 - Buffers and windows

3.28.2 - Actions involving the mouse

3.29 - Miscellaneous

4 - Editing Lisp Programs

4.1 - Automatic entry into lisp mode

4.2 - Functions and definitions

4.2.1 - Movement, marking and indentation

4.2.2 - Definition searching

4.2.3 - Tracing functions

4.2.4 - Function callers and callees

4.2.5 - Miscellaneous

4.3 - Forms

4.3.1 - Movement, marking and indentation

4.3.2 - Killing forms

4.3.3 - Macro-expansion of forms

4.3.4 - Miscellaneous

4.4 - Lists

4.4.1 - Movement

4.4.2 - Miscellaneous

4.5 - Comments

4.6 - Parentheses

4.7 - Symbol Documentation

4.8 - Evaluation and compilation

4.8.1 - General Commands

4.8.2 - Evaluation commands

4.8.3 - Compilation commands

5 - Advanced Features

5.1 - Customizing default key bindings

5.2 - Customizing Lisp indentation

5.3 - Programming the editor

5.3.1 - Defining commands

defcommand

5.3.2 - Buffers

5.3.3 - The echo area

5.3.4 - Editor errors

5.3.5 - Files

5.3.6 - Inserting text

5.3.7 - Lisp

5.3.8 - Movement

5.3.9 - Points

5.3.10 - Prompting the user

5.3.11 - Variables

5.3.12 - Windows

5.3.13 - Examples

5.3.13.1 - Example 1

5.3.13.2 - Example 2

5.3.13.3 - Example 3

Glossary

Abbrev

Abbrev Mode

Auto-Fill Mode

Auto-Saving

Backup

Binding

Buffer

Case Conversion

Completion

Control Key

Ctrl Key

Current

Cursor

Customization

Default

Deleting

Echo Area

Escape Key

Extended Command

Fill Prefix

Filling

Global Abbrev

History Ring

Incremental Search

Indentation

Insertion

Keyboard Macro

Key Sequence

Killing

Kill Ring

Major Mode

Mark

Mark Ring

Meta Key

Minor Mode

Mode

Mode Abbrev

Mode Line

Newline

Overwrite Mode

Page

Pane

Paragraph

Prefix Argument

Point

Recursive Editing

Region

Register

Regular Expression Searching

Replacing

Saving

Scrolling

Searching

Sentence

Tag File

Transposition

Undoing

Undo Ring

Variable (Editor)

Whitespace

Window

Window Ring

Word

Yanking

Index