Text Editor

The Text Editor tab lets you configure command-line arguments for a text editor when using the Edit Segment feature for search results or QA results for a glossary in .txt format. This includes Tab-delimited Files, Trados Exported Memories, Wordfast Memories, and Wordfast Glossaries.

When properly configured, this allows you to open the file directly at the line from which the segment selected with Edit Segment comes from. If you choose to define a Text Editor, you need to assign values to the following fields:

  • Path to Executable. This is the path to the .exe file for the text Editor. You can use the button with the ellipsis (…) to navigate to the .exe file.

  • Command-line Parameters. This field allows you to construct the command-line that should be passed to the editor. You can use several variables that will be replaced with values by ApSIC Xbench:

    • $Filename: The file name, including its path of the file.
    • $Line: The line number of the segment in the text file. This line refers to where the target text is located.
    • $Column: The column in the line where the target text is located.
    • $Segment: The segment number in the text file.

    For example, to configure TextPad 4 for line positioning, you must select there the Text Pad executable and specify the following in Command-Line Parameters: $filename($line,$column). Similarly, to configure Notepad++, you must select its executable and specify the following in Command-Line Parameters: $filename -n$line.

    Other text editors will require different values for this field. Please check your text editor documentation for the suitable values.