Auto-completion and content assistance

Ctrl+space

If the text you entered has only one possible completion, Software AG Designer inserts the completion. If you did not enter any text, or if there are two or more completion candidates, Software AG Designer displays candidates for you to choose from.

Toggle comment line notation

Ctrl+/

Toggles comment notation for selected lines. That is, this action inserts or removes // from the beginning of each line.

Insert block comment

Ctrl+Shift+/

Makes the selected text a block comment. That is, this action inserts /* at the beginning of the selected text, and */ at the end of the selected text.

Remove block comment notation

Ctrl+Shift+\

Removes block comment notation from the selected text. That is, this action removes /* from the beginning of the selected text, and */ from the end of the selected text.

Auto-indent

Ctrl+I

Inserts appropriate indents in selected lines relative to the entire file.

Move line (s) up

Alt+up arrow

Move the selected line or lines to be before the previous line.

Move line(s) down

Alt+down arrow

Move the selected line or lines to be after the subsequent line.

Shorthand for any EPL

Templates

Templates let you define short names for patterns you frequently specify in EPL files. See Defining shorthand (templates) for frequently used EPL code.