This is a complete list of hint messages displayed on the title bar 1 To drag and drop, highlight text, then click and drag from within the selection 2 Dragging with the right mouse button will move text 3 Goto http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer - Paul Sheer Consulting IT Services 4 Dragging with the left mouse button will copy text 5 Use Shift-Insert to copy text from other applications 6 Use Alt-Insert to bring up a history of selected text 7 Function keys F11-F20 mean Shift with a function key F1-F10 8 Do not email the author with generic questions, goto your local LUG instead 9 See how to do regular expression substring replacements in the man page 10 Use Shift-Up/Down in input widgets to get a history of inputs 11 Setup your personal file list ~/.cedit/filelist so that Jump To File works 12 Run frequently used apps from a hot key: see the Scripts menu 13 Get your keypad to work by redefining keys in the Options menu 14 Drag a file name from the 'File browser' in the Window menu to insert it 15 Use a macro to record repeatedly used key sequences 16 Get a list of demo fonts with: cooledit -font h 17 Undo key-for-key with Ctrl-Backspace 18 Drag function prototypes and other info from the man page browser 19 Double click on words in the man page browser to search for new man pages 20 Goto http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer - Paul Sheer Consulting IT Services 21 Search for [Options] in ~/.cedit/.cooledit.ini and change settings 22 Edit the example Scripts to see how to create your own 23 Double click on gcc error messages after running Make or Cc 24 Turn off these messages from the Options menu: 'Hint time...' = 0 25 Do not email the author with generic questions, goto your local LUG instead 26 See how to do regular expression substring replacements in the man page 27 You can drag and drop columns of text between windows with the Ctrl key 28 See cooledit.1 for a list of the many extended editing/movement keys 29 Compose international characters with Right-Control 30 Set the LC_ALL and LANG environment variables - see the FAQ 31 For new international character support see the FAQ 32 Insert (hexa)decimal literals with Control-q and the (hexa)decimal digits 33 Try out proportional fonts like Times or Helvetica 34 Read all these hint messages in editor/cooledit.c in the source distribution 35 See the file INTERNATIONAL for composing international characters 36 Edit/move at high speed with the many Ctrl/Meta-Arrow combinations 37 Goto http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer - Paul Sheer Consulting IT Services 38 Use drag-and-drop to and from input widgets 39 Open a file by dragging its name from the 'File browser' onto the background 40 Use Shift-Ins to paste into input widgets 41 If Cooledit halts, restore by sending SIGUSR1: kill -1 <pid> 42 For fun, hit Ctrl-Shift-Alt-~ to see how text is redrawn 43 Turn off the toolbar from the 'Options' menu 44 Goto the Python web page: http://www.python.org/ 45 Disable the 'Window' menu from the 'Options' menu 46 If a macro is defined to an unused key, it will execute without having to use Ctrl-A 47 Use smalledit if you would like a smaller, cut down version of cooledit 48 Select *columns* of text by holding the control key down through mouse highlighting 49 Use Ctrl-Tab to complete the start of string, C-function or LaTeX-macro 50 Turn off tool hints from the Options menu 51 Use `Auto paragraph...' and `Word wrap...' to edit paragraphs like a WP 52 See how to do regular expression substring replacements in the man page 53 Try your hand at adding new Cooledit features with Python 54 Mark locations in files with the book mark commands in the Edit menu 55 Debug programs with Meta-F5 56 Goto http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer - Paul Sheer Consulting IT Services 57 Execute explicit debugger commands with Meta-F1 58 Turn off spell checking from the Options menu 59 File files containing regular expressions with Ctrl-Meta-F 60 Delete debugger variables with Del in the variable dialog 61 Add debugger watches with Ins in the variable dialog 62 Make a variable watch point by marking it with Ins in the variable dialog 63 Change the default size of the undo stack in ~/.cedit/.cooledit.ini 64 Bookmark all matching strings with the `Bookmarks' switch in the `Search' dialog 65 Create a printable postscript manual with man -t cooledit > cooledit.ps 66 Read the Python online tutorials: http://www.python.org/ 67 Setup ~/.cedit/filelist so that Ctrl-Tab completes in your file-browser 68 Enable \"Smooth scrolling\" option if you have a fast graphics card 69 Start internal XTerms with \"Terminal\" in the command menu 70 Use the coolproject command to start projects 71 Goto http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer - Paul Sheer Consulting IT Services 72 Display Unicode text - See FAQ 73 All colours can have their RGB values set - see COLOURS in the man page 74 Try different looks with the \"--look\" command line option 75 Press Escape to enter shell commands 76 Select text then use Escape to pipe through a shell command