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There are different, freely configurable menus in the Info-Base. The exact details of the syntax are described under the respective editors. Basically, these menus process unicode except for the menu title (before a "~"), the macros and the user menu, which directly accesses files.

In all these menus is "&" permitted that the individual menu items can be called up quickly and efficiently with the underlined characters after the Alt key (and released again) or F6 .

Also - except the Templates (!) - submenus (only one level !) are possible, if you write following lines after each other :

Submenu~1. Menu~link or command
Submenu~2. Menu~link or command
Submenu~3. Menu~is ignored~link or command

A dividing line in the submenu can be as: "Submenu~-~-" or so: "Submenu~-~" be entered.

More than 2 separators ("~") are ignored; the actual command is after the last delimiter. So you can easily group similar links or filters together.

Templates

F6
Alt+T 

It is the only one of the user menus that must be present. It is automatically created if the file (Templates.ubi) was not found.

The first 4 entries are necessary for internal functions and are not displayed in the menu itself.

It is used to store the templates for your own data and notes and can be customized entirely to your own wishes.

In contrast to the other 3 menus, the length of the menu item (especially after Ctrl+Mto Templates ) is determined automatically until the first CR/LF in multi-line templates. Otherwise as in the other menus up to the first "~". 
   

Links Alt+L

Here are all kinds of frequently used links, as they can occur in the text of the notes to choose from.

They are stored in a text file in the program or data directory (LinkMenu.ubi) and can also be edited with a Unicode editor.

With Ctrl+L in the Popup menu of the list of labels and the global search, the respective link can be written directly into the Links .
When temporary links is activated, these are deleted when leaving Info-Base, as long as they have no title (before "~").

This makes it easy to set up temporary bookmarks:

  1. mark a prominent line (or part of it) of the note
  2. trigger a search with Ctrl+S
  3. Esc (to get into the note list)
  4. with Ctrl+L add this search to the link

Now a link for this stack/note is available with Alt+L until the end of the program.
  

Filters

ALT+F
 

These are stored filters or parts of filters(not from global search) with up to 20 search terms linked by AND.
This function partially overlaps with the Links and the user must decide on his needs and desires, which he uses for what purpose.

The filter (no matter if a single term or a series is separated with the link delimter) is always additive (AND) if a filter is already set.

By repeated call the respective element can that be deleted again from the filter. This is very handy for complicated searches.

Only with the search in the stack and if a filter is set, the filter from this menu is added with logical AND.

They are stored in a text file in the program or data directory (FilterMenu.ubi) and can also be edited with a Unicode editor.

Mit Ctrl+F in the Popup menu of the list of notes and the global search, the respective filter can be written directly into the Filters ,if not already (exactly) available.
When temporary filters are activated, they are deleted when leaving Info-Base as long as they have no title (before "~").

Normally, when calling the stored filters or parts of filters in the current stacking is searched. If you want to search globally, you must first set the focus (with F3 or the mouse) to the input field of the search.
 

Macros Alt+M

These keyboard macros are a (longer) series of keystrokes for frequently used operations. 

Unicode is not supported.

This is done with the external program SendKey.exe (must be in the directory of Infobase.exe !).
  

User menu Alt+U

In this menu all possible programs (with or without parameters) and associated files can be called up.

Unicode is not supported.

They are stored in a text file in the program or data directory (UserMenu.ubi) and can also be edited .
     


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