Keyboard oddity while on the Slickedit command line

[jporkkahtc]

Press ESC to get tot he Slickedit command line.


Press ctrl-tab. This changes which buffer has focus, but doesn't close the command line.
Also while the command line is active, pageup/pagedown navigates in the active buffer.


Some keys fall thru from the command line editor to the active buffer, and some don't.

[Clark]

Are there any additional keys you want to fall through? Commands that can operate on the command line will always operate on the command line.

[jporkkahtc]

No, it seems odd that any fall thru - except for things like Alt+<Menu>.


I'm sure there is a reason, but apparently random stuff falls thru, such as Alt+L (cut-sentence)
OIC -- Alt+<KEY> is passed even if it isn't a menu.


Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End are passed too.

[Clark]

This is very intentional. Primarily it's used to go to the top of the buffer or switch window before running some command. I use it all the time.