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====Enclose Selection (Alt+Ctrl+E)====
 
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Asks for two phrases and then encloses the selection with them. The first one ({{field|Before}}) is placed before the selection, the second one ({{field|After}}) is placed after the selection.
 
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{{example_body}}TED Notepad for Windows is a {{example_select|freeware}} text editor, looking and behaving ...
 
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{{example_start}}Result, using {{field|Before}}: {{string|<nowiki>&lt;b&gt;</nowiki>}} and {{field|After}}: {{string|<nowiki>&lt;/b&gt;</nowiki>}}:
 
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{{example_body}}TED Notepad for Windows is a &lt;b&gt;freeware&lt;/b&gt; text editor, looking and behaving ...
 
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{{tip}} If you have written an HTML document and you need to make several phrases to be bold, e.g. each occurrence of a specific word, then use {{feature|Find...}} (hotkey {{hotkey|Ctrl+F}}) to select first such word, hit {{feature|Enclose Selection}} (hotkey {{hotkey|Alt+Ctrl+E}}), enter phrases {{field|Before}}: {{string|<nowiki>&lt;b&gt;</nowiki>}} and {{field|After}}: {{string|<nowiki>&lt;/b&gt;</nowiki>}} and hit {{button|Enclose}} button. The selected word will be enclosed with the ''bolding'' tags. Then, use {{feature|Find Next}} (hotkey {{hotkey|F3}}) to select all the other occurrences, one by one. Each time hit {{feature|Last Tool}} (hotkey {{hotkey|Ctrl+L}}), in order to use {{feature|Enclose Selection}} on each of them.
 
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{{tip}} Note that if you need to enclose entire subsequent lines, it is better to select all of them at once and use {{feature|Indent/Quote Selection...}} tool (hotkey {{hotkey|Alt+Ctrl+Q}}) and then {{feature|Close Lines...}} tool (hotkey {{hotkey|Alt+Ctrl+C}}) instead of selecting each one of them separately and performing the {{feature|Enclose Selection}} again and again.
 
  
 
====Unique (Alt+Ctrl+X)====
 
====Unique (Alt+Ctrl+X)====

Revision as of 15:02, 10 July 2006

You see work in progress here; this section already reflects future TED Notepad version 5.0.0.13.
This section may contain incomplete, premature, or mistaken information, prone to change without notice.

Indent (Ctrl+Tab)

Indents each line of the selection with a Tab character.

Note: The selection always persists in this tool.

Unindent (Ctrl+Shift+Tab)

Removes the first character on each line of the selection, if the character is a white-space.

Quote Mail (Ctrl+Q)

Indents (quotes) each line of the selection with a >_ phrase exactly the same way as a standard mail client would do upon replying to a message.

Note: The selection always persists in this tool.

Quote/Indent... (Alt+Ctrl+Q)

Asks for a Quote phrase to work with and then indents (quotes) the selection with the specified phrase at the beginning of each line. Optionally, only non-empty lines can be quoted.

Example: (an e-mail received from a user)
----- Original Message ----- Great notepad! Tabs, you need tabs for multiple documents. Cosmetic, supeficial,........ of course. But that's what people are looking for these days.
Result, using Quote: >_ and Only non-empty lines checked:
----- Original Message ----- > Great notepad! > Tabs, you need tabs for multiple documents. Cosmetic, supeficial,........ > of course. But that's what people are looking for these days.

Tip: If you are writting a list (or a table) in an HTML document, you may write all the lines of such a list first without having to bother with all the HTML tags. Then select all the lines, hit this Indent/Quote Selection... tool (hotkey Alt+Ctrl+Q) and enter phrase like <LI> as the Quote phrase.

Unquote (Ctrl+Shift+Q)

Takes the very first character of the selection as a quoting character. Then removes the first character on each line of the selection, if the character is the quoting character.

Note: It is very similar to the Unindent Selection tool, but it is not space-oriented only.

Close... (Alt+Ctrl+C)

Asks for a Close with phrase to work with and then closes each line of the selection with the specified phrase. Optionally, only non-empty lines can be closed.

Result, using Close with: <br>; see example above:
----- Original Message ----- Great notepad!<br> <br> Tabs, you need tabs for multiple documents. Cosmetic, supeficial,........<br> of course. But that's what people are looking for these days.<br>

Tip: As the example above shows, if you are writting an HTML document, you may write all the text of such a document first without having to bother with all the HTML tags. Then select the text, hit this Close Lines... tool (hotkey Alt+Ctrl+C) and enter whatever phrase is needed after each line (e.g. a <bt> tag).

Tip: According to the tips and examples above, you may simply combine the Indent/Quote Selection... tool with Close Lines... tool in order to write paragraphs in an HTML document without having to bother with <p> tags at first. Write all the paragraphs first, each one on a single line (use word wrapping (hotkey Ctrl+W) in order to see entire paragraphs wrapped into several lines). Then select all the paragraphs and use both Indent/Quote Selection... and Close Lines... tools in order to add the <p> and </p> tags.

Columns, Numbers... (Alt+Ctrl+Y)

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TODO: describe

Tabify (Alt+Ctrl+O)

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TODO: describe

Untabify (Ctrl+Shift+O)

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TODO: describe

Unique (Alt+Ctrl+X)

Searches the selection for equal lines and removes all duplicates. The order of the uniqued lines remains unchanged and from each two equal lines, the second one is removed.

Note: Use Shift+Alt+Ctrl+X hotkey in order to ignore case when matching duplicates.

Example:
how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood
Result:
how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if could

Tip: If you need, for example, a complete word listing of a document, use the Extended Replace tool in order to replace all the spaces, commas, dots, etc. by new lines. Then use this Unique Lines tool, which will give you the complete listing of all words.

Find duplicates... (Ctrl+Shift+X)

Works the same way as the Unique Lines tool does, but allows more options affecting the behavior of the tool:

  • All lines - identical to the behavior of the Unique Lines tool.
  • Only unique lines - only lines that does not have duplicates are included in the result.
  • Only duplicated lines - only lines that have at least one duplicate are included in the result.
Result of Only duplicated lines; see example above:
wood a woodchuck chuck

The Count duplicates option adds to the result the actual numbers of equal lines. Each resulting line will contain a number of its duplicates, written in brackets before the line.

Result of Count duplicates; see example above:
(1) how much (2) wood (1) would (2) a woodchuck (2) chuck (1) if (1) could

Additionally, Ignore case option may be specified to ignore case when matching duplicates. Leave empty lines option may be specified to spare empty lines from being uniqued to prevent joining of separate paragraphs.

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