Help

This section describes items on the Help menu and associated dialogs and views. For information about how to obtain product support, see Product Support.

Help Menu

SlickEdit Core adds the following items to the standard Eclipse Help menu:

Help Menu Item

Description

Command

SlickEdit Cool Features

Displays the Cool Features dialog, which shows SlickEdit® Core feature tips. See Help Dialogs and Views.

cool_features

What Is Key

Used to discover the command associated with a key binding. Opens the command line, prompting with the text What is key. See Determining the Command of a Key Binding.

what_is

Where Is Command

Used to discover the key binding associated with a command. Opens the command line, prompting with the text Where is command. See Determining the Key Binding of a Command.

where_is

SlickEdit License Manager

Displays the SlickEdit License Manager for managing licenses. See Licensing.

lmw 1

About SlickEdit Core

Displays a property sheet containing information about your product, such as serial and version numbers, as well as release notes and the license agreement.

version

SlickEdit Product Support

Used to invoke a Web browser which opens to a form on the SlickEdit Web site that you can use to contact Product Support. See Product Support.

do_webmail_support

Help Dialogs and Views

This section describes the dialogs and views that are associated with the Help menu items.

Cool Features Dialog

The Cool Features dialog appears automatically after the product installation has completed, and by default, each time the editor is started. To access the dialog at any time, from the main menu, click Help → SlickEdit Cool Features, or use the cool_features command on the SlickEdit® Core command line.

The following options and buttons are available:

  • Options for Feature - Displays the dialog from which you can make settings for the selected feature.

  • Help on Feature - Displays the Help system open to the documentation for the selected feature.

  • View Demonstration - Invokes a Web browser which navigates to a SlickEdit Web page containing an audio/visual demonstration of the feature in action.

  • Topics - Displays a table of contents from which you can select a Cool Feature to learn more about. The previously viewed topic is remembered and displayed the next time the dialog is invoked.

  • Prev - Scrolls to the previous Cool Feature.

  • Next - Scrolls to the next Cool Feature.

  • Show on startup - If selected, prevents the Cool Features dialog from appearing each time the editor is started.