Ergonomics

There are a few miscellaneous maple features that make editing more convenient but don't fall cleanly into one of the main categories. They are documented below.

"Shift Select"

By default, holding Shift while pressing any of the arrow keys will create a new selection and expand it in the given direction similar to in other text editors. This behavior can be toggled with the shiftSelect property.

"Shift De-indent"

By default, pressing Shift+Tab will de-indent the current line or selection. This behavior is the same as the deindent command, and can be toggled with the shiftDeindent property.

File Nicknames

Nicknames can be used to more easily load and edit internal maple files. Nicknames can only be used within the maple editor, such as with the load command. These names are self-explanatory.

Files

• {themefile}
• {propfile}
• {footerfile}

Directories

• {mapledir}
• {themedir}
• {syntaxdir}

Examples

load {syntaxdir}/cs.xml, to load the C# syntax rules.

load {propfile}, to load the properties.xml file.