Scratch Pad

Scratch Pad is a basic text editor that helps you work with textual data simultaneously while interacting with the terminal screen. Text from the terminal screen can be written to the scratch pad on the fly by righ-clicking and selecting Send to Scratch Pad. Text written on scratch pad can also be saved to a file.

Scratch Pad options

Scratch Pad includes the following options:

Right Arrow

Minimizes the scratch pad. This hides the text area of the scratch pad without losing the text written on it. Minimode is available only for sessions opened in a separate window.

Left Arrow

Maximizes the scratch pad. This is available only for sessions opened in a separate window.

Save

Saves the current contents of the scratch pad into a file.

Clear

Clears the current contents of the scratch pad.

Scratch Pad menu options

The following options are available by right-clicking to display the Scratch Pad menu:

Cut

Moves the selected text area contents to the system clipboard. This option is enabled only if the text is selected in the scratch area.

Copy

Copies the selected text area contents to the system clipboard. This option is enabled only if the text is selected in the scratch area.

Paste

Pastes the text content from the clipboard to the scratch pad text area. This option is enabled only if system's clipboard has textual content.

Word Wrap

Enables or disables word wrap for text area in scratch pad. By default word wrap is enabled for the text area.

Theme

Changes the background and foreground colors of the scratch pad text area.

Show Session

Displays the session screen associated with the current scratch pad. This option is available only for scratch pad in embedded sessions.