Appendix

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The meaning of some terms used in this manual is as follows below. Many of them are intuitive; some of them may not be well-known; and some of them are used here, only to describe exact actions of some tools within TED Notepad.

  • A white-space is a Space, a Tab or another character that can not be seen but takes place in the document. All other characters, which can be seen, are called graphs.
  • An alphanum* is an alpha-numeric character (ie. a, b, ..., z, A, B, ..., Z, 0, 1, ..., 9).
  • A capital* is any capital letter (ie. A, B, ..., Z).
  • A word is a non-empty sequence of alphanums. Underscores may be optionally included** and phrase hello_world is then treated as a single word within all Tools and Functions. All characters that such a word can consist of are called word letters or also word characters.
  • A line is a sequence of characters, where two lines are divided by a CR/NL sequence of characters. Note, that if Word Wrap is turned on, a line may be wrapped, but within all tools it will be still treated as a single line. Also note, that a single NL or CR character does not divide two lines.
  • A sentence is a sequence of characters that begins with a capital and ends with a Dot, a Question mark or an Exclamation mark. Example: Alice? Who the f... is Alice? are two sentences, but Alice? Who the f... Is Alice? are three sentences. Unfortunatelly, even How are you today, Mr. President? are two sentences, which is not very true.
  • A char range is a sub-sequence of characters that begins and ends at the specified positions. Char range is used to cut out a sub-string from a longer column.
  • An actual insertion point (also called a cursor position) is a position of the caret in the documnet or the end of the actual selection, if any. Note, that in special cases, it is the beginning of the selection, if any. These special cases are tools/features that work backward. (e.g. Find Previous or BkSpace Word.)
  • To unique lines is to remove duplicate lines, to unify them. If lines or words are uniqued, it means that each line (word) is unique and there no two lines are of the same text.

*: Special characters like á (a with acute) do not belong to alphanums, nor capitals in English locale settings. To be able to recognize those characters as alphanums and capitals you have to use CTYPE category of the locale that supports it. TED Notepad always works with the system locale settings.

**: See section Settings dialog.