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A tab stop on a typewriter is a location where the carriage movement is halted by an adjustable end stop. Tab stops are set manually, and pressing the tab key causes the carriage to go to the next tab stop. In text editors on a computer, the same concept is implemented simplistically with automatic, fixed tab stops. Modern word processors generalize this concept by offering tab stops that have an alignment attribute and cause the text to be automatically aligned at left, at right or center of the tab stop itself. Such tab stops are paragraph-specific properties and can be moved to a different location in any moment, or even removed. Sometimes, placeholders in code snippets are also called "tab stops" because the user can cycle through them by pressing the tab key. Types of tab stops A tab stop is a horizontal position which is set for placing and aligning text on a page. There are at least five kinds of tab stops in general usage in word processing or in Microsoft Word. ;Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Typewriter
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters. Typically, a typewriter has an array of keys, and each one causes a different single character to be produced on paper by striking an inked ribbon selectively against the paper with a type element. At the end of the nineteenth century, the term 'typewriter' was also applied to a ''person'' who used such a device. The first commercial typewriters were introduced in 1874, but did not become common in offices until after the mid-1880s. The typewriter quickly became an indispensable tool for practically all writing other than personal handwritten correspondence. It was widely used by professional writers, in offices, business correspondence in private homes, and by students preparing written assignments. Typewriters were a standard fixture in most offices up to the 1980s. Thereafter, they began to be largely supplanted by personal computers running word processing software. Nevertheless, typewr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Textadept
Textadept is a free software minimalism (computing), minimalist text editor designed for computer programming. Distributed under the MIT license, MIT license, it is written in C (programming language), C and Lua (programming language), Lua and is extensible using Lua. Textadept can use either a graphical user interface or a text-based user interface when running in a terminal window. Textadept uses the Scintilla (software), Scintilla editing component. Textadept's developer makes the curses (programming library), curses wrapper library for Scintilla used by Textadept available separately. In common with Emacs, Textadept is deeply extensible; the Lua Application programming interface, API has access to any subsystem of the program. Despite this, the developer states that one of his goals is for the C portion to not exceed 2000 Source lines of code, lines of code and for the Lua portion to never exceed 4000 LOC. When running in a graphical interface Textadept purposely does not save ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
