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| − | ===General: Editor settings===
| + | This chapter describes all fileds within the {{dialog|Settings}} dialog of TED Notepad. |
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| − | The {{field|Tab size}} value specifies the size of each {{system|tab stop}}. These {{system|tab stops}} determine, how much each Tab character will shift the following text.
| + | =====Table of Contents:===== |
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| − | The {{field|Left margin}} value specifies the size of the left {{system|selection margin}} of a document. This {{system|selection margin}}
| + | *[[General page]] |
| − | | + | *[[Edit page]] |
| − | is a space between the text of the document and a border of the main
| + | *[[Appearance page]] |
| − | window. Here a user can drag the mouse cursor to quickly select entire
| + | *[[File page]] |
| − | lines.
| + | *[[Save/Load page]] |
| − | | + | *[[Clipboard page]] |
| − | The {{field|Text Limit}} value specifies
| + | *[[Search page]] |
| − | the maximum allowed length of text of a document. If this value is to
| + | *[[Tools page]] |
| − | be breached, text may be truncated and a warning will be given. Use
| + | *[[Favourites page]] |
| − | this limit in order to create a top limit of your documents.
| + | *[[Filters page]] |
| − | | + | *[[Settings page]] |
| − | Note:
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| − | This value may be altered anytime in order to be able to edit a
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| − | document of nearly whatever size, but a specific positive value always
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| − | have to be chosen. That is a historical relique from the older versions
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| − | of Windows that still has to be fostered.
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| − | ===General: Selections===
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| − | The {{field|Persistent selection in Tools}}
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| − | setting specifies whether the selection should outlast all used tools.
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| − | If checked, the selection will be updated to re-cover the results of
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| − | any used tool. Otherwise, the selection will be discarded and the caret
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| − | will be placed at the end of such results (exactly as if the results of
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| − | that tool were pasted to the document using a clipboard).
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| − | Note: For some tools (e.g. {{feature|Indent}} selection with Tabs or {{feature|Quote Mail}}) the selection always persits, because these tools are ment to be used several times in sequence on the same selection.
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| − | {{tip}}
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| − | Such a setting may become useful especially, when you need to perform
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| − | several tools in sequence on the same text (e.g. you need to use {{feature|Unique Lines}} tool and then additional {{feature|Sort}}
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| − | on the uniqued lines). When this option is enabled, the selection will
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| − | automatically cover the results of the first tool, thus you may use the
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| − | second tool without need to re-select the text.
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| − | The {{field|Use selection for Find/Replace dialogs}} specifies whether the selection should be used as the {{field|Find what}} phrase in the {{dialog|Find/Replace...}} dialogs. If no selection is present while invoking the {{dialog|Find/Replace...}} dialogs, the {{field|Find what}} phrase remains untouched.
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| − | {{tip}} This may be useful, if you usually use copy and paste method from the document to the {{dialog|Find/Replace}} dialogs to save typing. With this option enabled, you do not need to copy and paste. Just select the text and invoke the {{dialog|Find/Replace}} dialog. The selection will be automatically pasted into the dialog for you.
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| − | {{tip}} If you want to quicken the technique described above a bit more, use the {{feature|Next Occurrence}} feature. By this feature you may start a new search without a single dialog. Also defining a search for a text with {{defined|newlines}} inside is not a problem anymore. See chapters [[Searching for specific text]] and [[Edit menu]] for more details.
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| − | ===General: UNIX-files===
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| − | The {{field|Transparent UNIX-files support}} specifies whether all opened files are to be checked and automatically converted from UNIX}} if needed. After such a conversion, the {{feature|Save in UNIX}} option will be checked and the file then will be automatically saved back as UNIX-type upon save.
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| − | See chapter [[Managing documents]] for more details about UNIX-type files.
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| − | ===General: Behavior===
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| − | The {{field|Include underscores within words}} specifies whether an Underscore character should be included within the {{defined|word letters}} definition. This definition is used when working with words, like {{feature|Select Word}} or {{feature|Complete Word}} features do.
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| − | Note: Other characters, those that are not included within those {{defined|word letters}} are furthermore divided into two groups: {{defined|white-spaces}} and {{defined|word delimiters}}. All word-oriented features of TED Notepad (e.g. {{feature|Select Word}}) usually treats all white-spaces as one delimiting character. In other words, {{feature|Select Word}} selects either a word or all consecutive white-spaces or a single word delimiter.
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| − | The {{field|Disobey Word Wrapping}}
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| − | specifies whether the lines of a document are not to be counted
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| − | according to the actual word wrapping. The actual line number is
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| − | displayed in the {{feature|Status Bar}} and may be used, for example, in the {{button|Go to Line}} feature.
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| − | The {{field|Complete Word dialog sorted}} specifies whether the {{feature|Complete Word}} dialog items are to be sorted alphabetically, or by their preceding order in the document. See chapter [[Edit menu]] for more details about the {{feature|Complete Word}} feature.
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| − | ===General: Hotkeys===
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| − | The {{field|Enable easy Exit (Esc key)}} enables or disables the {{hotkey|Esc}} and {{hotkey|Shift+Esc}} hotkeys.
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| − | ===General: Recent files recollection===
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| − | The {{field|Remember recently opened files}} specifies whether the {{feature|Recent Files}} menu is to be active. The {{feature|Recently opened files}} are always maintained, but they are saved upon {{feature|Exit}} only when this check box is checked.
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| − | Note: To save {{feature|Recent Files}} succesfully, no {{feature|/ns}} command line parameter, nor the {{feature|Exit without saving!}} may take their place. See chapters [[Command line parameters]] and [[File menu]].
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| − | The {{button|Empty recent files menu}} button empties the list of the {{feature|Recently opened files}}.
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| − | The {{field|Fixed-width Font}} specifies whether a default system fixed-width font is to be used as {{field|fixed-width}} font or a custom user's font. Use the {{field|Primary font}} button to choose this custom user's font.
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| − | ===General: Fonts===
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| − | The {{field|Proportional Font}} specifies whether a default system font is to be used as a {{field|proportional}} font or a custom user's font. Use the {{field|Secondary font}} button to choose this custom user's font.
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| − | ===General: RE clone specific===
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| − | The {{field|Use multi-level Undo/Redo}} turns on/off the multi-level {{feature|Undo/Redo}} feature. See chapter [[RichEdit clone]].
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| − | The {{field|Clear Undo buffer upon Save}} specifies whether to forget all multi-level actions upon the {{feature|Save}} operation. The last action remains remembered anyway. This option has no effect when {{field|Use multi-level Undo/Redo}} option is turned off. See chapter [[RichEdit clone]]
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| − | The {{field|Automatic detection of URLs}} specifies whether URLs are to be detected and highlighted in the
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| − | document. Note: It may be necessary to reload somehow the text of the
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| − | document after applying of the settings/options to get the
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| − | autodetection fully working. This is because only loaded or somehow
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| − | modified text is searched for URLs and each apply of the
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| − | settings/options may discard all previously found links. See chapter [[RichEdit clone]]
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| − | The {{field|Use doubleclick to launch URLs}} specifies whether a doubleclick or a single click on an auto-detected URL is required to launch it in a default internet browser. See chapter
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| − | ===Files===
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| − | The {{field|Always add missing extension}} setting specifies whether the {{feature|Save As}} dialog should always append a default extension to a file name when no extension is specified by user.
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| − | The {{field|Default extension}} value specifies the default extension to be appended to a file name, if it is necessary.
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| − | Default extension for plain-text documents is usually {{string|*.txt}}, but a user may choose to override this and use another value, for example, {{string|html}}, if he creates more HTML documents than simple texts.
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| − | The {{field|Default file format}} specifies a default file format that should be used for new documents.
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| − | Note: See chapter [[Managing documents]] for more informations about these file formats, their usage, advantages and also pitfalls.
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| − | The {{field|Open/Save Dialog Filters}} defines filters, that are to be used in the {{dialog|Open/Save}} dialogs as file filters. Such a filter consists of two {{defined|strings}} separated by a Pipe character.
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| − | The first {{defined|string}} in a filter is a name to be displayed that describes the filter (e.g. {{string|Text Files}}). The second one specifies the filtering pattern (e.g. {{string|*.txt}}). Therefore a filter for text files would look like this: {{string|Text Files|*.txt}} or maybe even like this: {{string|Text Files (*.txt)|*.txt}}.
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| − | To specify multiple filtering patterns for a single filter, use a semicolon to separate the patterns (e.g. {{string|*.txt;*.doc;*.bak}}).
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| − | A filtering pattern can be a combination of valid filename characters
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| − | and an asterisk wildcard character. Do not include spaces in the
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| − | pattern string.
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| − | Several filters are to be delimited also by a Pipe character. Therefore this {{dialog|Open/Save Dialog Filters}} value should eventually consist of pairs of {{defined|strings}} delimited by Pipes. Each pair defines one filter: a name and its filtering pattern.
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| − | ===Favourites===
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| − | See chapter [[Favourites]] for any details.
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| − | ===Filters===
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| − | See chapter [[Text Filters]] for any details.
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| − | ===Saving the settings and options===
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| − | This page offers to
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| − | specify, which categories of options and/or settings are to be saved
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| − | upon every exit, so they outlast to the next time, TED Notepad is
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| − | started.
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| − | If none of these categories is ever saved, TED
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| − | Notepad will always be running with the default values. See below for
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| − | details on how to do that.
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| − | If these categories are saved once
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| − | (e.g. after precisely configuring TED Notepad to yours specific needs),
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| − | and then they are not saved any more, TED Notepad will always start
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| − | with such desired configuration. See below for details on how to
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| − | achieve that.
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| − | Furthermore, if these categories are saved upon
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| − | every exit, TED Notepad always starts as if it never exited at all.
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| − | This is also the default behavior.
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| − | Just note, that these
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| − | settings are not shared between two running instances of TED Notepad.
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| − | Therefore, if you change word wrapping in one window, the other one
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| − | will remain unchanged. That is fine, however, if you add a new {{feature|favourite}}
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| − | in one window, it will not be present in the second one. You will have
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| − | to save the settings of the first window (e.g. by closing it, which
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| − | will save all the {{feature|favourites}}) and then start a new one to have those saved settings re-loaded into a new window.
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| − | The {{field|Save settings on exit}}
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| − | option specifies whether any options/settings should be saved at all.
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| − | Saved options/settings are automatically loaded when TED Notepad is
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| − | runned next time. If this option is not checked, the settings are not
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| − | saved upon any exit, therefore, they remain the same as they were
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| − | before.
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| − | If you want the settings never to be saved and never
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| − | to be loaded, uncheck this option the very first time you run TED
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| − | Notepad and click the {{button|Save checked settings}} button. From
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| − | now on no settings will then be saved anymore as well as they have
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| − | never been before - nothing to load the next time TED Notepad is
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| − | started.
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| − | If you want to settings pre-configure the settings
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| − | once and then have them all the same every time you start TED Notepad,
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| − | make the configuration and click the {{button|Save checked settings}} button, so the settings are saved. Then ucheck this {{field|Save settings on exit}} option and click the {{button|Save checked settings}} button again. From now on no settings will then be ever saved.
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| − | <small>Note: There are {{feature|/ns}} and {{feature|/nl}} command line parameters that may be of interest to you, if you want to manage the settings your way. See chapter [[Command line parameters]] for more details about skipping any loading and/or saving procedures.</small>
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| − | The {{field|Save window position}}
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| − | specifies whether the main window's position is to be saved. If saved,
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| − | the next time TED Notepad is started, it will appear on the same
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| − | position as before. Turning this option on is not recommended much. See
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| − | <small>Troubleshooting note: If you
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| − | are using two displays/monitors, you may simply choose to place TED
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| − | Notepad's window on the second display. However, when you disconnect
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| − | one of those displays later and then run TED Notepad, its window will
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| − | be opened on the missing display and will become quite invisible. It
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| − | may be quite tricky to move it into viewable area. Therefore, be
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| − | careful about this setting. A lot of users accidentally get lost their
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| − | window this way.</small>
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| − | {{mycomment|Ludia su proste len
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| − | miznu okna priamo pod rukami.... Kam? ;)}}
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| − | The {{field|Save window size}}
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| − | specifies whether the main window's size is to be saved. If saved, the
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| − | next time TED Notepad is started, its size will be the same as before.
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| − | Otherwise, it depends on the system, how big the window will be.
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| − | The {{field|Save options}} category specifies whether basic options from the [[Options menu]]
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| − | are to be saved. These are the switches that are usually touched a
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| − | lot according to specific types of documents and/or the type of usage.
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| − | Especially, the {{feature|Word Wrap}} option, the {{feature|Status Bar}} visibility option, the {{feature|Stay on Top}} and the {{feature|Fixed-width Font}} options belongs to this category.
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| − | The {{field|Save settings}} category specifies whether the settings from the {{dialog|Settings...}} dialog are to be saved. These are the most common settings that are usually not modified a lot.
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| − | Note: This category actually archs over saving of nearly all the settings in the {{dialog|Settings...}} dialog. However, note, that the {{feature|Favourites}} nor the {{feature|Filters}} are about settings!
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| − | The {{field|Save fonts}} category specifies whether the {{feature|custom fonts}}
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| − | are to be saved. Those fonts are usually ment to by the same all the
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| − | time even if both settings and options are fluctuating. Therefore a
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| − | special category is present to avoid of saving what does not need to be
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| − | saved all over again and again.
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| − | The {{field|Save strings from dialogs}} category specifies whether phrases and options from the dialogs of
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| − | tools are to be saved. Saving of this category is the biggest work to
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| − | do, as this category is the biggest one.
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| − | The {{field|Save Extended Clipboards contents}} category specifies whether content of the {{feature|Extended Clipboards}} is to be saved. See chapter [[Clipboards menu]] for more details about the {{feature|Extended Clipboards}}.
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| − | The {{button|Save checked settings}} button saves all current settings according to the check boxes above exactly as they would be saved upon exit.
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| − | Note: This button is disabled, if {{feature|/ns}} command line parameter takes place. See chapter [[Command line parameters]] for more details.
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| − | The {{button|Restore defaults}}
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| − | button restores all options/settings to their default values as if no
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| − | options/settings were ever loaded and/or modified. Note, that if you
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| − | restore all options/settings, but choose not to save them, they will
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| − | not remain ''restored'' next time TED Notepad is launched.
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| − | Note, that there are two options that may not be restored this way: window position and window size.
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