26.2. Text Editor User Interface

26.2. Text Editor User Interface
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Figure 26.1. User Interface

The user interface offers the following areas:

the menu bar
the Attached Module menu (can be switched off in the Views submenu)
the Outline area with a list of related modules (can be switched off in the Views submenu)
the Edit area, with tabs for open files
the Project Workspace area, with a list of projects which are collections of files belonging together (can be switched off in the Views submenu)
the Debug Output area, with the same information as in MeVisLab (see Chapter 8, Debug Output; can be switched off in the Views submenu)
the Find menu for incremental and normal search (can be switched off in the Views submenu)

As of MeVisLab 2.2, another two specialized MATE user interface configurations are available, see Section 26.9, “Module Help Editor” and Section 26.8, “Python Debugger”.

As of MeVisLab 2.3, MATE also offers functionality of a a session manager and a GUI editor, see Section 26.10, “Session Management” and Section 26.12, “GUI Editor”

As of MeVisLab 2.7, MATE offers a project workspace, which is superior to the session manager of previous versions, see Section 26.11, “Project Workspaces”. There is also a rudimentary integration with the Pylint Python code checking tool, see Section 26.14, “Pylint Integration”


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