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"Unix editing made easy"

This is the same documentation included with the last version of all tpad packages. This web version is provided for convenience.

Contents

User's Documentation

• Introduction
• Configuration
  • Upgrading
• Command line usage
  • Using tpad as a viewer
  • Make other programs invoke tpad
  • Remote execution
• Key bindings
  • related to primary selection
    • to paste the primary selection
    • to set the selection anchor
    • to adjust the selection
    • to select all the text
    • to clear selection
    • to delete the selection
  • related to the clipboard selection
    • to copy the selection to the clipboard
    • to cut the selection to the clipboard
    • to paste the selection of the clipboard
  • to move the the insertion cursor
    • by characters
    • by words
    • by lines
    • by paragraphs
    • by screenfuls
    • to the beginning of the line
    • to the end of the line
    • to the beginning of the text
    • to the end of the text
  • to delete till the end of the line
  • to reverse the order of two chars
  • to undo/reapply an edit action
  • to split a line
• Mouse bindings
  • related to primary selection
    • to stroke out an arbitrary selection
    • to select
      • a word
      • words
      • a line
      • lines
    • to adjust the end of the selection
    • to paste the primary selection
  • to position the insertion cursor
  • to scroll
    • without selecting
    • while selecting
• tpad & HTML Tidy
• How to create a log file
• How to report a bug

Programmer's Documentation

• Using tpad in your own programs
• ChangeLog
• TODO list

Note: parts of this manual were excerpted and adapted from Tk manual pages, especially text(n).