BirEdit User's Manual

Contents:

1. Compatibility
2. Features
3. Command line parameters
4. Keyboard commands
5. License
6. Contributors

• Support of Unicode codepages (UTF-16 little endian, UTF-16 big endian, UTF-8, UTF-7);
• Support of DOS/Windows and Unix newline formats;
• Multi-level undo;
• Fast search/replace text strings;
• Syntax highlighting;
• Printing of a document;
• Support of language files.

/p	- print
/n	- silently create new file, if doesn't exist
/c	- paste clipboard contents
/q	- stop parsing command line parameters and close program
/u	- remove file associations with BirEdit
"file.ext"	- file path (in quotes)

F2	- create file
Ctrl+O	- open file
F5	- revert file
Ctrl+S	- save file
F6	- save file as...
Alt+N	- launch new window
Alt+O	- launch empty window
Ctrl+L	- execute file
Alt+L	- open file with...
Alt+E	- open in Explorer
Alt+R	- run command
Ctrl+P	- print file
Alt+F4	- exit
Ctrl+Z	- undo
Shift+Ctrl+Z	- redo
Ctrl+X	- cut
Ctrl+C	- copy
Alt+C	- copy all
Ctrl+E	- add to clipboard contents
Shift+F9	- copy filepath
Ctrl+V	- paste
Ctrl+K	- exchange selected text with clipboard contents
Del	- delete
Ctrl+A	- select all
Tab	- indent
Shift+Tab	- unindent
Alt+D	- dublicate selection
Ctrl+Q	- quote selection
Shift+Ctrl+Q	- dequote selection
Shift+Ctrl+U	- uppercase
Ctrl+U	- lowercase
Ctrl+Alt+I	- invert case
Ctrl+Alt+T	- title case
Ctrl+Alt+S	- sentence case
Ctrl+F	- find
F3	- find next
Shift+F3	- find previous
Ctrl+H	- find and replace
F4	- replace next
Shift+F4	- replace previous
Ctrl+G	- go to line (by number)
Ctrl+B	- find matching brace
Shift+Ctrl+B	- select to matching brace
Alt+Q	- enclose selection
Alt+V	- insert color under cursor (RGB)
Ctrl+F5	- insert time and date
Ctrl+F8	- insert encoding edintifier
Ctrl+F9	- insert filename
Shift+Ctrl+F9	- insert filename with full path
Shift+Ctrl+N	- normal selection mode
Shift+Ctrl+L	- line selection mode
Shift+Ctrl+C	- column selection mode
F1	- show "About" window