Editing Modes

The TER editor offer these four editing modes:

Text Mode:

The text mode is initiated when the editor is called with word wrapping turned off. This mode is most suitable for editing the text files such as computer programs and batch files. In this mode, the lines are not wrapped automatically. This mode does not offer the paragraph formatting features.

Word Wrap Mode:

This mode is initiated when the routine is called with the word wrapping turned on. In this mode, the text in a window is automatically formatted to wrap at the end of the line. Therefore the complete line of text is always visible regardless of the window width. A special character 'ParaChar' is used to delimit a paragraph. This character is not displayed on the screen. Additionally, you have an option of suppressing this character when the file is written out to the disk.

This mode also allows the character and paragraph formatting features.

Print View Mode:

This mode is initiated when the editor is called with both the Word Wrap and the Print View flags turned on. In this mode, the text lines are wrapped as they would be wrapped when printed to the selected printer. The horizontal scrolling is automatically provided when the text goes beyond the current width of the window. This mode offers all the features of the Word Wrap Mode. In addition, it provide automatic repagination. This mode also allows for sections with multiple columns.

Page Mode:

This mode is initiated when the editor is called with both the Word Wrap and the Page Mode flags turned on. As in the Print View mode, the text lines are wrapped as they would be wrapped when printed to the selected printer. In this mode, however, the editor displays one page at a time. This mode is most useful for the documents containing multiple columns, as the columns are displayed side by side. In addition, this mode provides all the features of the Print View mode

FittedView:

This is a special case of the page mode in which the text wraps to the window width and the soft page breaks are not displayed