The IDE has a powerful and flexible text editor for use with source-code and text files. In addition to regular text-editing features, the IDE provides drag-and-drop editing, text-file manipulation in various file formats, and marker navigation in a text file.

The editor also has many practical features for programmers. Programming aids include automatic indention, syntax coloring, routine and interface pop-up menus, and automatic balancing of braces, brackets, and parentheses. The editor works closely with the Class Browser to help you edit, view, and navigate among routines, data structures, variables, and objects.

The IDE lets you search for normal text or regular expressions and replace matching items. Your search can span a single file or a group of files. You can also specify the types of files you wish to search.

You can use a file-comparison and merging command to display two text files side-by-side. This arrangement lets you compare differences between the files. In addition, you can compare the contents of two folders and look for differences between files.

See "Working with Files," "Editing Source Code," "Finding and Replacing Text," and "Browsing Source Code" for more information on working with text and source-code files.