Appendix

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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 called graphs.


  • An alphanum is an alpha-numeric character, i.e. a, b, ..., z; A, B, ..., Z; 0, 1, ..., 9.
    • Special characters like á (a with acute) belong to alphanums only in certain locale settings. To be able to recognize these characters as alphanums you need to use CTYPE category of a locale that supports it. TED Notepad always works with the current system locale settings.
  • A capital is any capital letter, i.e. A, B, ..., Z. These are called letters in upper letter case or simply upper case letters. Their oposites are called lower case letters and are in lower letter case or simply in lower case.
    • Special characters like á (a with acute) belong to capitals only in certain locale settings. To be able to recognize these characters as capitals you need to use CTYPE category of a locale that supports it. TED Notepad always works with the current system locale settings.



  • A line is a sequence of characters, where two lines are divided by one newline. Note that if Word Wrap is turned on, a line may be visually wrapped into several visual lines, but within all tools and most features it will still be treated as a single unbroken line. Any current visual word-wrapping has seldom impact on how lines are treated within tools and features .
  • 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? is considered as two sentences.


  • An actual insertion point (also called a cursor 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.


  • To unique lines is to remove duplicate lines, to unify them. If lines or words have been uniqued, it means that each line (or word) is unique in the results and that no two lines (or words) are of the same text.