Extra Commands Submenu Reference (Visual LISP IDE)

The Extra Commands submenu provides access to a number of formatting commands that can be used while in an active Visual LISP text editor window.

Note: The Visual LISP IDE is available on Windows only.

This menu can be accessed by clicking Edit Extra Commands or pressing Ctrl+E.

Text editor code formatting commands
Option	Effect
Indent Block	Indents the selected block of text by adding a tab to the beginning of each line
Unindent	Unindents the selected block of text by removing a tab
Indent to Current Level	Indents the current line to the same level as the previous line of program code
Prefix With	Adds a text string to the beginning of the current line, or to each line in a block of selected lines, after prompting you for the string
Append With	Appends a text string to selected lines of text, after prompting you for the string
Comment Block	Converts a block of code to comments
Uncomment Block	Changes a block of comments to active text
Save Block As	Copies selected text to a new file
Upcase	Converts the selected text to all uppercase
Downcase	Converts the selected text to all lowercase
Capitalize	Capitalizes the first letter of each word in the selected text
Insert date	Inserts the current date (default format is MM/DD/YY)
Insert time	Inserts the current time (default format is HH:MM:SS)
Format Date/Time	Changes the date and time format
Sort Block	Sorts the selected block of code in alphabetical order
Insert File	Inserts the contents of a text file into the current editor window at the cursor position
Delete to EOL	Erases everything from the cursor position to the end of the current line
Delete Blanks	Deletes all blank spaces from the cursor position to the first non-blank character in the line