Appendix
From TED Notepad
This section is up to date for TED Notepad version 6.3.1.0.
The meaning of some terms used in this manual is as follows below:
- A
white-space
is a Space or a Tab or another character that can not be seen but provides blank visual separator in the document. All other characters which can be seen, are calledgraphs
.
- An
alphanum
is an alpha-numeric character, i.e. a, b, ..., z; A, B, ..., Z; 0, 1, ..., 9.
- A
capital
is any capital letter, i.e. A, B, ..., Z. These are called letters inupper letter case
or simplyupper case
letters. Their oposites are calledlower case
letters and are inlower letter case
or simply inlower case
.
- To
ignore case
is to ignore differences betweenletter cases
likecapitals
andlower case
letters. Whenignoring case
, letter a is equal to letter A, b equal to B, etc. An antonym ofignore case
is tomatch case
and an operation, thatmatches case
iscase sensitive
.
- A
string
is a sequence of characters. Typically, suchstring
is used as a synonym for a phrase that a user have entered in a dialog. E.g. Find and Replacestrings
from Search and Replace dialog are always used in find/replace mechanisms.
- A
word
is a non-empty sequence ofalphanums
. Underscores may optionally be included within words, a phrase like hello_world is then also treated as a singleword
. All characters aword
can consist of are calledword letters
orword characters
. Other characters are calledword delimiters
ornon-word characters
. See section General page of the Settings dialog for more information about Underscores in words.
- A
line
is a sequence of characters, where twolines
are divided by onenewline
. Note that if Word Wrap is turned on, aline
may be visually wrapped into several visual lines, but within all tools and most features it will still be treated as a single unbrokenline
. Any current visual word-wrapping has seldom impact on howlines
are treated within tools and features .
- An
empty line
is aline
, which consists ofwhite-spaces
only. Therefore anon-empty line
is aline
, which contains at least onegraph
character. Please note that there might be manywhite-spaces
and still theline
would be consideredempty
.
- A
paragraph
is a sequence ofnon-empty lines
. Twoparagraphs
are divided by a sequence ofempty lines
. There is no such thing as emptyparagraph
, since sequences ofempty lines
are always grouped together when determiningparagraphs
.
- A
sentence
is a sequence of characters that begins with acapital
and ends with a Dot, a Question mark or an Exclamation mark. Example: Alice? Who the f... is Alice? are twosentences
, but Alice? Who the f... Is Alice? are threesentences
. Unfortunatelly, even How are you today, Mr. President? is considered as twosentences
.
- An
actual insertion point
(also called acursor position
) is a position of the caret in the documnet. It is also the end of the actual selection, if any. Note that the end of the selection is where the user stops selecting the text, therefore if selecting text upwards, the selection end visually preceeds the selection beginning.