Editing Helpers

Small components that add a behavior to a TSynEdit. Each of them has an Editor property (some can serve more editors).

TSynMacroRecorder

Unit: SynEdit.MacroRecorder. Records the keystrokes and commands of an editor and plays them back.

Member	Description
RecordShortCut	The key that starts and stops the recording.
PlaybackShortCut	The key that plays the macro.
SaveMarkerPos	Saves the position of the markers during the recording.
State	msStopped, msRecording, msPlaying or msPaused.
RecordMacro(Editor), PlaybackMacro(Editor)	Start recording and playing from your code.
Stop, Pause, Resume	Control of the recording or playback.
IsEmpty, Clear, AsString	The recorded macro, that can also be saved and loaded (SaveToStream, LoadFromStream).
OnStateChange	Fired when the state changes (to update the buttons).
OnUserCommand	Lets you record your own commands.

TSynAutoCorrect

Unit: SynEdit.AutoCorrect. Replaces a word with its correction while the user types (for example teh with the, or an abbreviation with the full text).

Member	Description
Editor	The editor served.
Enabled	Enables the correction.
Items	The list of the pairs original / correction (Add(AOriginal, ACorrection)).
ItemSepChar	The separator between the original and the correction in the items (default a tab).
Options	Set of options of the correction: by default ascoIgnoreCase and ascoMaintainCase.
AutoCorrectAll	Corrects all the text.
OnAutoCorrect, OnCorrected	Events before and after a correction: the first one can change or cancel it.

The unit SynEdit.AutoCorrectEditor contains a form to edit the list of the corrections.

TSynURIOpener

Unit: SynEdit.URIOpener. Makes the links of the text (web addresses, mail) clickable.

Member	Description
Editor	The editor served.
URIHighlighter	The TSynURISyn highlighter that finds the links. It must be assigned to the editor (alone, or inside a TSynMultiSyn to find the links in the comments of the code).
CtrlActivatesLinks	The link is opened with Ctrl+click (default True).
VisitedURI(URI)	Tells whether a link has already been opened.

TSynEditPythonBehaviour

Unit: SynEdit.PythonBehaviour. Gives the editor the indentation of the Python code: after a line that ends with a colon the next line is indented.

Member	Description
Editor	The editor served.
Indent	The number of spaces of the indentation (default 4).

TSynHighlighterManager

Unit: SynEdit.Highlighter.Manager. A design-time helper: when you drop it on a form it shows the list of the highlighters and places on the form those you select.