The user interface of wedit

C language keywords are displayed in blue, commentaries in light green, and text in black.  You can alter these colors as desired using the corresponding option in the Configuration property sheet. Lines that are bigger than the display window are finished with a white square. The name of the current function, the line number, and the current column are displayed at the lower right corner of Wedit’s window. If the file has been modified, an asterisk will be added after the column number.

 There is no horizontal scrollbar. Click near the vertical scrollbar and the screen will move to the left, click at the opposite side and the screen will move right.[1]

 You can make Wedit show you the braces level by choosing the ‘Level’ option in the ‘Edit’ menu. A column with the level of each line appears at the left. To make the ‘level’ disappear just choose the same option again.[2]

You can save disk space by using the ‘Spaces to tabs’ option in the ‘Edit’ menu. This function will replace all leading spaces with tabs, so your file uses less disk space and loads faster.

If you have made changes and want to discard them, the fastest thing to do is to choose the ‘Reload’ option in the ‘File’ menu. This will reload the file from disk, disregarding all changes.

If you want to see what changes you have made to a file, use the ‘Show changes’ option in the ‘Edit’ menu.[3]

To display two files side by side, use the ‘Disposition’ option in the ‘Window’ menu. You can position the files side by side vertically or horizontally.

The button at the lower left corner is used to show/hide the output window. This window can be detached and moved freely around by clicking in the bands of free space between the output window and the borders. In addition, its height can be arranged by moving the slider in the middle. To do this, press and hold your mouse button for more than one-half second when the mouse is over the slider. The slider window will then be ready for resizing. It will show a horizontal bar that can be used to adjust the height of the output window.

Pressing the right mouse button above the area of the output window will bring up a contextual menu. With this, you can save the actual contents in the output window to a file.

Wedit has a status window at the bottom. Here, you can see the output of different things: GREP, make, the debugger, the locals display, etc. This window can be shown using the button at the lower left of Wedit, or hidden, using the same button. At the bottom right, you will find the current function for where the cursor is located, if any, and the current line and column number.

The list in the output window is a ‘dockable’ window. You can detach it from the main Wedit window, and so that it becomes an independent floating window that you can place anywhere in the desktop.

To force this window into its home position, just double-click in the window’s title bar.