Using the editor

The toolbar

New	create a new file
Open	open an existing file
Save	save the edited file
Save As	give the edited file a name where to save it
Find	find words or regular expressions in the edited file
Run	runs the main.7th file
Compile	compiles data structures in the dictionary
Eval	evaluates the edited program and compiles colon definitions into the dictionary
[no. of characters]
Undo	undo Your last input
Redo	redo Your last input
[changed indicator]	red: file was changed

On startup of the 7^th IDE at least two windows will open. The one with the toolbar is the editor.

If You are working with files that have the extension .7th a code beautifier handles the correct identation of the program lines and control words are highlited in magenta.

Of course You can edit any kind of text files. Unlike other editiors You are not forced to give an entered program or entered text a fliename at once, before closing the 7^th editor. You get the last file You had created on re-entering the editor.

Editor keyboard shortcuts

Ctrl + D	delete the current line – that is the line with the cursor in it
Ctrl + I	corrct the indentation of the current line or of the selected lines
[Find]	show the find menu
[A,a]	ignore upper- and lowercase
Ctrl + K or [˅]	go to the next search term occurence
Ctrl + Shift + K or [˄]	go to the previous search term occurence
[↔]	show replace menu
Ctrl + K or [next…]	replace the next search term occurence
Ctrl + Shift + K or [prev…]	replace the previous search term occurence
[☼]	a regular expression can be entered as search term

The find menu

the find menu
[☼] search regular expression
[A,a] ignore upper- and lowercase
word/pattern to find input field
[˄] go to the previous search term occurence
[˅] go to the next search term occurence
[↔] show replace menu
replace with word input field
[prev…] replace the previous search term occurence
[next…] replace the next search term occurence
replace all search term occurences
no. of occurrence
wrap around while finding/replacing

Replace

With the 7th editor a lot more than the usual simple text replacement is possible.
In the present example we will surround each text with quotes.
To achieve this You can enter a regular expression to match the text eg. with ([a-z\-T]+(\x20[a-z]+)?) (button [☼] must be down)
In short the regular expression does the following:
[a-z\-T]+ find all words with at least one letter containing a-z, the hyphen and T (for the T-shirt). The hyphen is a functional symbol in regular expressions and must be escaped therefore.
(\x20[a-z]+) for the remaining text consisting only of small letters a-z following a blank (like suntan cream)
? matches only if there is a text
coding the blank as \x20 is easier readable than a blank character

To get the matched text into quotes use: "$1" where $1 ist substituted with the matching text of the 1. brace level.

7th on a Raspberry Pi

The use of the 7^th editor is much more comfortably than those of the command-line editors. And CTRL-C / CTRL-V (cut and paste) works between computers while accessing remotely.

To call the editor with sev ˂optionally a filename here˃

copy Seventh.jar to Desktop and create the file /usr/bin/sev containing

cd

java -Xms300m -Xmx300m -jar /home/pi/Desktop/Seventh.jar -f $1 &

A new file without an extension is created by setting Files of Type to All Files in the Save-dialog. Otherwise an .7th extension is appended by default.