Chapter 1. The structure browser window
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## Chapter 1. The structure browser window

The SideKick plugin provides a dockable window in which other plugins can display buffer structure.

Plugins>SideKick>Structure Browser displays the current buffer's structure in a dockable window. This window is floating by default, but it can be docked into the view in the Docking pane of the Global Options dialog box.

The SideKick plugin automatically parses buffers when they are loaded or saved, where possible. Optionally, buffers can also be parsed on the fly, but this uses a fair bit of memory and processor power so it is disabled by default.

Plugins>SideKick>Parse on Keystroke is a checkbox menu item that toggles on-the-fly parsing, for the current buffer only.

The current buffer can be parsed at any other time by clicking the parse button in the Structure Browser window, or by invoking the Plugins>SideKick>Parse Buffer command.

Any errors found while parsing the buffer are sent to the ErrorList plugin, which means they are highlighted in the text area, and shown in the Plugins>Error List>Error List window. See the documentation for the ErrorList plugin for details.

Clicking on a node in the tree will move the caret to its location in the buffer; conversely, moving the caret in the buffer will select the corresponding node.

Shift-clicking on a node will select that node in the text area. Alt-clicking on a node will narrow the text area display to that node.

If the structure browser window is docked into the current view, hovering the mouse over a node will display its attributes in the status bar.

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