The Menu Entries

The File Menu
N File New 	 This starts a new Document in the editor. If there is a current document with unsaved changes the user is given a chance to save it.
O File 0pen... 	 This command opens a file. It does this by means of a dialog box which allows the user to navigate the file system. The dialog operates like a small file manager. Clicking on directories displayed in the central window directs the dialog to enter that directory - displaying its contents. There is an entry/dropdown box which can be used to type in directly the location and name of the file or by clicking the arrow at the side choose from a dropdown list of recently used locations. Below this is a filter which similarly may have data entered directly or chosen from a dropdown list of recent filter types. The filter facility lets only files that meet its specifications be displayed in the central window. If the filter contained text such as *.txt then only files with the txt extension would be visible in the selection window. Below the filter is a status bar giving information about the number of files and subdirectories within the current directory.
The toolbar, which is located at the top of the dialog, has left and right arrow buttons that let the user move back and forth through previously selected directories as well as an up arrow button for moving up the directory tree. The button with the little house takes the user to his or her home directory and the one with the two arrows curved in on each other updates the view of the current directory. The flag button lets the user set a new bookmark at the current directory or go to one that was previously set.
The last button on the toolbar allows you to create a new directory, and even change some basic settings for the dialog box, and finally there is dropdown box with a list of some commonly frequented directories.
File Open Recent 	 This is a shortcut to open recently saved documents. Clicking on this item opens a list to the side of the menu with several of the most recently saved files. Clicking on a specific file will open it in - if the file still resides at the same location.
S File Save 	 This saves the current document. If there has already been a save of the document then this will overwrite the previously saved file without asking for the user's consent. If it is the first save of a new document the save as dialog (described below) will be invoked.
File Save As... 	 This allows a document to be saved with a new file name. This is done by means of the file dialog box described above in the Open section of this help file.
P File Print... 	 Opens a simple print dialog allowing the user to specify what, where, and how to print
File New View 	 This creates a new view of the current document, , a new instance of (as explained in the previous entry) but containing the same document.
Q File Quit 	 This will close the editor window, if you have more than one instance of running, through the New View or New Window menu items, those instances will not be closed.

The Edit Menu
Z Edit Undo 	 This is used to eliminate or reverse the most recent user action or operation. Just what constitutes such an action may be better understood by referring to the Group Undos portion of this help file.
Z Edit Redo 	 This will reverse the most recent change (if any) made using Undo
Edit Undo/Redo History 	 This will call a display box showing a list of the most recent actions on the left and another list of actions which have been 'undone' on the right. There are also three buttons at the right of the box labeled Undo, Redo, and Close. Clicking on the Undo button will cause the action at the top of the Undo list to be reversed which will place that particular action at the top of the Redo list. Likewise, clicking on the Redo button will reinstate the reversed action and move it back to the top of the Undo list. Clicking on an item below the top item in either list will select all the items from the top down to that point. A subsequent click on the corresponding button will cause all the selected actions to be undone or redone accordingly. This would be particularly useful when the user knows precisely the point to which she or he would like to proceed - making it unnecessary to go through a series of single undo or redo actions.
X Edit Cut 	 This command deletes the current selection and places it on the clipboard. The clipboard is a feature of KDE that works invisibly to provide a way to transfer data between applications.
C Edit Copy 	 This copies the currently selected text to the clipboard so that it may be pasted elsewhere. The clipboard is a feature of KDE that works invisibly to provide a way to transfer data between applications.
V Edit Paste 	 This will insert the contents of the clipboard at the cursor position. The clipboard is feature of KDE that works invisibly to provide a way to transfer data between applications.
A Edit Select All 	 This will select the entire document. This could be very useful for copying the entire file to another application.
Edit Invert Selection 	 This selects any unselected text while unselecting any selected text - effectively reversing the current state of selection.
G Find Go to line 	 This opens the goto line dialog box which is used to have the cursor jump to a particular line (specified by number) in the document. The line number may be entered directly into the text box or graphically by clicking on the up or down arrow spin controls at the side of the text box. The little up arrow will increase the line number and the down arrow decrease it. There is also a slide control to the right of the text box which allows the user to move the goto point in the document in an analog manner.
F Edit Find 	 This opens the find dialog which is used to specify the Text to Find in the document. There is small text box for entering the search pattern which also doubles as a dropdown box. Clicking on the dropdown arrow at the side of the box makes available other recent search patterns. Other parameters are included to make the search more efficient. Selecting Case Sensitive will limit finds to entries that match the case (upper or lower) of each of the characters in the search pattern. Find Backwards directs the search to proceed in an upwardly direction. The Selected Text option keeps the search within currently selected text. Checking Whole Words Only prevents the search from stopping on words that contain the searched for pattern. The Search from Cursor option begins the search from the current position of the cursor within the document rather than from the beginning.
F3 Edit Find Next 	 This repeats the last find operation, if any, without calling the find dialog box.
F3 Edit Find Previous 	 This repeats the last find operation, if any, without calling the find dialog box, and searching backwards instead of forwards through the document.
R Edit Replace 	 This command opens the replace dialog box. The replace dialog is almost identical to the above-mentioned find dialog. In addition to the features in the find dialog it contains a Replace With: text entry/dropdown box. Using this dialog the user can specify both the text to be found and text with which to replace it. The additional Prompt On Replace option allows the user to have ask for confirmation before each replacement.
M Edit Editing Command 	

The Bookmarks Menu
B Bookmarks Toggle Bookmark 	
Bookmarks Clear Markers 	 This command will remove all the markers from the docucument as well as the list of markers which is appended at the bottom of this menu item.
At the bottom of this menu, a list of markers appears if any markers are available for this window.

The Tools Menu
Tools Spelling... 	This initiates the spell checking program - a program designed to help the user catch and correct any spelling errors. Clicking on this entry will start the checker and bring up the speller dialog box through which the user can control the process. There are three text boxes lined up vertically in the center of the dialog with their corresponding labels just to the left. Starting at the top they are:
Misspelled Word: 	Here, the spell checker indicates the word currently under consideration. This happens when the checker encounters a word not in its dictionary - a file containing a list of correctly spelled words against which it compares each word in the editor.
Replacement: 	 If the checker has any similar words in its dictionary the first one will be listed here. The user can accept the suggestion, type in his or her own correction, or choose a different suggestion from the next box.
Suggestions: 	 The checker may list here a number of possible replacements for the word under consideration. Clicking on any one of the suggestions will cause that word to be entered in the Replacement: box, above.
On the right side of the dialog box are 6 buttons that allow the user to control the spell check process. They are:
Replace 	 This button has the checker replace the word under consideration in the document with the word in the Replacement: box.
Replace All 	 This button causes the checker to replace not only the current Misspelled Word: but to automatically make the same substitution for any other occurences of this Misspelled Word: in the document.
Ignore 	Activating this button will have the checker move on without making any changes.
Ignore All 	 This button tells the checker to do nothing with the current Misspelled Word: and to pass over any other instances of the same word.
This only applies to the current spell check run. If the checker is run again later it will stop on this same word.
Add 	Pressing this button adds the word in the Misspelled Word: box to the checker's dictionary. This means that in the future the checker will always consider this word to be correctly spelled.
Stop 	 This button stops the spell check process.
Located horizontally along the bottom of the spell check dialog is a progress bar. As the checking process proceeds the bar will fill from left to right providing a graphical representation of how far along in the document the process has reached. In addition, the progress is displayed numerically in the center of the progress bar.
A numerical display of the spell check process is simultaneously displayed in the status bar of the editor. The status bar is the horizontal strip at the bottom of the editor just outside of the text entry area.
Two more buttons are located below the progress bar. They are:
Help 	 This invokes the KDE help system starting at the help pages (this document).
Cancel 	 This button cancels the spell check process.
Tools Indent 	 This increases the paragraph's indentation by one step. The size of the step depends on the indentation settings.
Tools Unindent 	 This reduces the paragraph's indentation by one step. The size of the step depends on the indentation settings.
Tools Clean Indentation 	 Not yet implemented
Tools Comment 	This adds one space to the beginning of the line where the text cursor is located or to the beginning of any selected lines.
Tools Uncomment 	This removes one space (if any exist) from the beginning of the line where the text cursor is located or from the beginning of any selected lines.
I Tools Indent 	
U Tools Unindent 	
Tools Clean Indentation 	
# Tools Comment 	
# Tools Uncomment 	

The Settings Menu
Settings Show Toolbar 	 When checked, this displays a movable toolbar containing buttons used to initiate frequently used commands. When unchecked the toolbar is hidden.
Settings Show Statusbar 	 When checked, this displays a small bar at the bottom of the editor containing information about the status of the current document. When unchecked the statusbar is hidden.
Settings Show Path 	 When selected, this displays in the title bar the path (its location in the file system) of the current document. When unchecked the path is hidden.
Settings Configure Key Bindings 	 This command opens a dialog box whereby the key bindings may be changed. A display window at the top of the dialog box shows the list of commands (actions) that can have keyboard shortcuts. Below the display are three radio buttons. The user may choose between No Key, Default Key, and Custom Key. (Note that a set of radio buttons only allows the selection of one of the offered items - in the way that buttons on a car radio only offer the selection of one preset station. Also, the Default Key selection is only available for those commands that actually have a 'default' shortcut.) Selecting the Custom Key option activates the three check boxes and key button at the bottom of the dialog. The user may then select a key combination for the command in question by means of the check boxes and key button. For example, with the About KDE command selected in the display window, the user could select and Alt, click on the key button, and then press the K key on the keyboard. This would mean that anytime he or she held down the and Alt buttons and pressed K (while using ) the About KDE display box would be called.
Settings Configure Toolbars 	This will open the dialog whereby the toolbar configuration may be changed. The user can choose which shortcut buttons should appear on the toolbar. A display window on the left lists the commands available to placed on the toolbar. A display on the right lists those commands already on the toolbar. A set of four arrow buttons between the two displays manipulates the selections. The right pointing arrow places any command selected in the left pane onto the right pane, i.e., it is added to the toolbar. The left arrow does just the opposite, removing any action selected in the right window from the toolbar. The up and down pointing arrows change the position of an action selected in the right window which changes the position of its button in the toolbar.
Settings Configure Editor 	 This menu item opens a dialog whereby several different settings may be adjusted.
F6 Settings Show Icon Border 	 Toggle the display of a border on the left of the editing window, where bookmarks are displayed next to the line they apply to.
F4 Settings Vertical Selection 	 This is used to turn on or off the vertical selection feature. Vertical selection allows text to be selected by column as well as by row. In other words with this feature the user is able to select text contained in only particular contiguous columns and rows. In affect the user can select a rectangular area of text anywhere in the document.
Settings Highlight Mode 	 This allows the user to choose the style of color highlighting which the editor uses to display the text. The styles are selected by programming language. The font/color information is not stored with the document.
Settings End of Line 	 This opens a sub-menu from which the user can select the type of end of line code for to use, i.e., the accepted standard used by Unix, or MSDOS/ systems.

The Help Menu