The Text Window displays the current map file in a text editor. The text editor provides syntax highlighting for the supported keywords used in the MapFile syntax and we can expand/collapse the sections by using the plus-minus signs on the left side. The Text Window can be selected by the Text tab according to the image below:
You can modify the map configuration directly in the text editor. The modified configuration is automatically displayed when switching back to the map display mode. The line numbers are shown at the left side at the text editor.
Note: When the text tab is activated the layer panel is disabled to prevent from modifying the configuration from outside of the text editor.
The text window provides the option to search for strings using the following dialogue:
In the Replace tag we can change the specified string with another string:
Basic |
Text Editing |
Ctrl + Z - Undo Ctrl + Y - Redo Ctrl + X - Cut Ctrl + C - Copy Ctrl + V - Paste Ctrl + A - Select All Ctrl + P - Display Print Dialog Ctrl + Shift + P - Display Print Preview Dialogue |
Ctrl + L - Line Cut Ctrl + Shift + L - Line Delete Ctrl + Shift + T - Line Copy Ctrl + T - Line Transpose Ctrl + D - Duplicate Selection Ctrl + U - Set Selection Lower Case Ctrl + Shift + U - Set Selection Upper Case Ctrl + Space - Auto Completion Show |
Text Navigation |
Find and Replace |
Ctrl + G - Go To Line Ctrl + [ - Move To Previous Paragraph Ctrl + Shift + [ - Select To Previous Paragraph Ctrl + ] - Move To Next Paragraph Ctrl + Shift + ] - Select To Next Paragraph Ctrl + Numeric+ - Zoom In Ctrl + Numeric- - Zoom Out Ctrl + Numeric/ - Set Zoom |
Ctrl + F - Display Find Dialogue Tab Ctrl + H - Display Replace Dialogue Tab F3 - Find Next Shift + F3 - Find Previous Ctrl + I - Incremental Search |
Other |
Ctrl + Q - Comment Selected Lines Ctrl + Shift + Q - Uncomment Selected Lines Ctrl + M - Drop Marker Set Escape - Collect Drop Markers |