User's Guide to the Tcl Editor

This class provides a text editor specialized for editing Tcl source. It is automatically invoked whenever you open a file with an .tcl extension. Tcl is a scripting language developed by John Ousterhout at U.C. Berkeley (now at Scriptics). The EditTcl class is derived from the EditProgram class, and therefore inherits all of its features. It colors certain Tcl constructs, such as comments and procedure definitions.

One feature provided by this class is that the Evaluate command in the File menu evaluated the Tcl code in the current (Tycho) Tcl editor. If there is a selection, then the code in the selection is evaluated. Otherwise, the entire file is evaluated.

The Evaluate Body command in the File menu will evaluate the Tcl proc that the insertion cursor is inside of. The returned value is displayed.

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