The Action Bar
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## The Action Bar

The action bar allows almost any editor feature to be accessed from the keyboard.

Utilities>Action Bar (shortcut: `C+ENTER`) displays the action bar at the bottom of the View and gives it keyboard focus. The action bar remembers previously entered strings; see Appendix C, History Text Fields for details.

To use the action bar, input a command and press `Enter`. To see a list of all actions, evaluate the BeanShell expression `jEdit.getActionNames()` (in a BeanShell interpreter, not in the action bar).

### Action invocations

Each menu item and tool bar button is bound to an action. To find out the name of an action, invoke the menu item or click the tool bar button, and look in the action bar's history.

If a substring or an action name is entered, pressing `Tab` shows a popup listing matching actions. An action can be selected using the `Up` and `Down` arrow keys, or by entering more characters of its name.

Pressing `Enter` with an incomplete substring invokes the action that would be first in the completion popup's list.

For example, entering `d-o` will invoke `combined-options`, which has the same effect as invoking Utilities> Options.

### Buffer-local properties

Entering `buffer.property=value` sets the value of the buffer-local property named `property` to `value`. Buffer-local properties are documented in the section called “Buffer-Local Properties”.

For example, entering `buffer.tabSize=4` changes the current buffer's tab size to 4.

See the section called “Buffer-Local Properties” for information about buffer-local properties.

### Global properties

Entering `property=value` sets the value of the global property named `property` to `value`. This feature is primarily intended to help plugin developers, since the properties jEdit uses to store its settings are not currently documented.

### Command repetition

To repeat a command multiple times, enter a number in the action bar, then press the key-combination that invokes the command. For example, “`C+ENTER` `1` `4` `C+d`” will delete 14 lines; “`C+ENTER` `9` `#`” will insert “#########” in the buffer. Note: The space characters in these examples should not be typed; they are only here to visually separate the keys to be typed.

If you specify a repeat count greater than 20, a confirmation dialog box will be displayed, asking if you really want to perform the action. This prevents you from hanging jEdit by executing a command too many times.

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