EnhProj macro for SlickEdit 2008 and 2009

Purpose

SlickEdit 14 has a new Smart Open toolbar. EnhProj is very similar, but is much faster in a workspace with tens of thousands of files, and works on both SE14 and SE13.

Compatibility

This macro uses a DLL, so it only works on Windows computers.

Itt has been tested with SlickEdit 13.0.2 through 14.0.0. It may or may not work with older versions of SlickEdit (older versions are not supported).

Installation

1. Extract the files from the .ZIP archive.
2. Copy EnhProj.dll to your SlickEdit "win" directory (e.g. "c:\slick\win").
3. Copy EnhProj.e to your custom macro directory (or your config directory).
4. Open the EnhProj.e file in SlickEdit.
5. Load the module by choosing Macro | Load Module... from the menu.
6. Set up a key binding to invoke the enhOpen command (I use Ctrl+O).

Features

• The file list is automatically filtered as you type.
• Use the tabs to list Workspace files, Project files, or Any files from the file system (i.e. starting from the current working directory). The Smart tab is the default and merges the files from the Any and Workspace tabs into a single combined list.
• Press Enter to open the file highlighted in the list. If no file is highlighted in the list then the file is opened from the file system, relative to the current working directory.
• Press Shift+Enter to create/open the file name as typed.

Configuration

There are some configuration variables that control optional behavior. Configuration variables can be set by typing "set-var config_var_name" at the SlickEdit command prompt. At this time EnhProj does not have UI for setting options.

• enhproj_ofd_which_list — Which tab to initially activate in a new editor session. (-1 = remember across editor sessions, 0 = the Smart tab, 1 = the Any tab, 2 = the Project tab, 3 = the Workspace tab).
• enhproj_ofd_sort_by_path — Set this to 1 to sort the list by path. By default the list is sorted by filename.
• enhproj_ofd_case_sensitive — Set this to 1 to make the list case sensitive. By default the list is case insensitive.
• enhproj_ofd_always_substring — Set this to 0 to use a prefix match for the filename portion. By default the filename portion uses a substring match. The path portion always uses a suffix match. (To use a substring match even when enhproj_ofd_always_substring=0, just insert a star (*) wildcard, e.g. "*foo" or "bar*\*foo" or etc).
• enhproj_ofd_cx — Set this to 0 to reset the position/size of the open file dialog.

How To Filter The File List

Typing filters the list.

• Type a filename prefix to filter the list.
• Type a path\filename prefix to filter by path as well as filename. The path portion uses a suffix match, and the filename portion uses a prefix match.
• Use * and ? wildcards to filter path or filename using wildcards.
• Type "*foo" to filter the list to files containing "foo" somewhere in their name.

Examples:

• Type "foo" to see files with "foo" in their name (or use "*foo" if prefix matching is configured).
• Type "bar\foo" to see files that begin with "foo" in the "bar" directory (specifying a directory forces prefix matching).
• Type "bar*\*foo" to see files with "foo" in their names in any directories with "bar" in their names.

Future Enhancements

• Maybe merge open files into the Smart list.
• Maybe merge recently open files (history) into the Smart list.
• Maybe hook up UI for choosing options.
• Maybe add an autocompletion key.