# Text Editor

## Introduction

The &app; application enables you to create and edit text files.

The aim of &app; is to be a simple and easy to use text editor. More powerful features can be enabled with different plugins, allowing a variety of tasks related to text-editing.

## Getting Started

### Starting &app;

You can start &app; in the following ways:

Applications menu

- Choose Accessories Text Editor.

Command line

- Execute the following command: `xed`

By default, when you open a text document in the file manager, xed will start, and display the document.

### The &app; Window

When you start &app;, the following window is displayed:

#### &app; Window

Shows xed main window.

The &app; window contains the following elements:

Menubar

- The menus on the menubar contain all of the commands you need to work with files in &app;.

Toolbar

- The toolbar contains a subset of the commands that you can access from the menubar.

Display area

- The display area contains the text of the file that you are editing.

Statusbar

- The statusbar displays information about current &app; activity and contextual information about the menu items. The statusbar also displays the following information:

  - Cursor position: the line number and column number where the cursor is located.

  - Edit mode: If the editor is in insert mode, the statusbar contains the text INS. If the editor is in overwrite mode, the statusbar contains the text OVR. Press the Insert key to change edit mode.

Side Pane

- The side pane displays a list of open documents, and other information depending on which plugins are enabled.

  By default the side pane is not shown. To show it, choose View Side Pane.

When you right-click in the &app; window, the application displays a popup menu. The popup menu contains the most common text editing commands.

### Running &app; from a Command Line

You can run &app; from a command line and open a single file or multiple files. To open multiple files from a command line, type the following command, then press Return:

`xed `file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt``

Alternatively, you can specify a URI instead of a filename.

For more information on how to run &app; from a command line, see the unix manual page for &app;,

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## Working with Files

### Creating a New Document

To create a new document, choose File New. The application displays a new blank document in the &app; window.

### Opening a File

To open a file, choose File Open to display the Open File dialog. Select the file that you want to open, then click Open. The file is displayed in the &app; window.

The application records the paths and filenames of the five most recent files that you edited and displays the files as sub-menu items under the File Recents menu choice.

You can open multiple files in &app;. The application adds a tab for each open file to the window. For more on this see xed-tabs.

### Saving a File

You can save files in the following ways:

- To save changes to an existing file, choose File Save.

- To save a new file or to save an existing file under a new filename, choose File Save As . Enter a name for the file in the Save As dialog, then click Save.

- To save all of the files that are currently open in &app;, choose Documents Save All .

To close all of the files that are currently open in &app;, choose Documents Close All .

### Working With Tabs

When more than one file is open, &app; shows a tab for each document above the display area. To switch to another document, click on its tab.

To move a document to another &app; window, drag the tab corresponding to the file to the window you want to move it to.

To move a document to a new &app; window, either drag its tab to the desktop, or choose Documents Move to New Window .

## Working with Text

### Editing Text

You can edit the text of a file in the following ways:

- Type new text from the keyboard. The blinking insertion cursor marks the point where new text appears. To change this, use the arrow keys on the keyboard or click with the mouse.

- To copy the selected text to the clipboard, choose Edit Copy .

- To delete the selected text from the file and move the selected text to the clipboard, choose Edit Cut .

- To permanently delete the selected text from the file, choose Edit Delete .

- To insert the contents of the clipboard at the cursor position, choose Edit Paste . You must cut or copy text before you can paste text into the file, either from &app; or another application.

- To select all of the text in a file, choose Edit Select All .

### Undoing and Redoing Changes

To undo a change you have made, choose Edit Undo . To reverse this action, choose Edit Redo .

## Finding and Replacing

### Finding Text

To search a file for a string of text, perform the following steps:

1. Choose Search Find . The Find pane will open at the bottom of the &app; window.

2. Type the string that you want to find in the Search for field. You can include special characters such as a new line or tab: see xed-find-escapes.

3. Click Find to search the file for the first occurrence of the string after your current cursor position. If &app; finds the string, the application selects the first occurrence of the string. Other occurrences of the string are highlighted.

4. To find the next occurrence of the string, click Find or choose Search Find Next . To find the previous occurrence of the text, choose Search Find Previous .

After you have closed the Find dialog, you can still move the selection to other occurrences of the text by choosing Search Find Next and Search Find Previous .

### Replacing Text

To search a file for a string, and replace the string with an alternative string, perform the following steps:

1. Choose Search Replace to display the Replace pane at the bottom of the &app; window.

2. Type the string that you want to find, in the Search for field. You can include special characters such as a new line or tab: see xed-find-escapes.

3. Type the string that you want to use to replace the string that you find, in the Replace with field.

If &app; finds the string, the application selects the string. Click Replace to replace the selected occurrence of the string. The selected text will be replaced and the next match to the search string will be selected. To find the next occurrence of the string without changing the current selection, click Next(or Previous).

To replace all occurrences of the string throughout the document, click Replace All.

### Find and Replace Options

Four buttons on the left side the Find or Replace pane control the following options respectively: Regular expression search, Match case, Match whole word, and Wrap search. Each option can be toggled by clicking on its button.

- Select the Regular Expression option to search using regular expressions. For some basics on the use of regular expressions for searching see:

  grep

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- Select the Match case option to only find occurrences of the string that match the case of the text that you type. For example, with Match case selected, "TEXT" will not match "text".

- Select the Match entire word only option to only find occurrences of the string that match the entire words of the text that you type. For example, with Match entire word only selected, "text" will not match "texture".

- Select the Wrap around option to search to one end of the document and then continue the search from the other end of the file.

### Special Characters

You can include the following escape sequences in the text to find or replace to represent special characters:

`\n`

- Specifies a new line.

`\t`

- Specifies a tab character.

`\r`

- Specifies a carriage return.

`\\`

- The backslash character itself must be escaped if it is being searched for. For example, if you are looking for the "`\n`" literal, you will have to type "\\n" in the Search for field. Or if you are looking for a sequence of backslashes, you will have to double the number of searched backslashes.

### Positioning the Cursor on a Specific Line

To position the cursor on a specific line in the current file, choose Search Go to Line . The line number box appears at the top of the display area.

Begin typing the number of the line that you want to move the cursor to and the document will scroll to the specified line.

To dismiss the box and move the cursor to the specified line, press Return.

## Printing

Two printing options appear under the Filemenu choice: Print which opens a print dialog box allowing the setting of options before printing, and Print Preview which opens a view of the printed document on the screen in place of editor view.

### File Print Dialog

The dialog allows selection of the printer, setting of the print options and finally printing.

#### General Tab

The print dialog opens on the General Tab by default. On this tab, the printer can be selected--including "Print to File"--as well the pages and number of copies. If print to file is selected additional options appear to selecting the format (PDF, Postscript or SVG), and the output file name. Clicking on the output filename button opens a file selection dialog.

#### Page Setup Tab

Use this tab to select printer-specific options such as: page size, page source, orientation, scale, etc.

#### Text Editor Tab

Use the settings in this tab to control for the printed output the following things:

- Syntax highlighting
- Line numbers
- Text Wrapping
- Page header
- Fonts

### Print Preview

The print preview has several buttons with icon labels for navigating around the printed output, zooming in and out, and finally print the output if satisfied with the way it looks. Rolling over a button will expose a tool tip showing its purpose.

If you click the print button the file will be immediately printed without entering any print dialog. So make sure desired options have been set using the File Print... dialog.

## Programming Features

Several of &app;'s features for programming are provided with plugins. For example, the Tag List plugin provides a list of commonly-used tags for different markup languages: see xed-tag-list-plugin. Several other plugins exist. See xed-plugins.

### Syntax Highlighting

Syntax highlighting makes source code easier to read by showing different parts of the text in different colors.

&app; chooses an appropriate syntax highlighting mode based on a document's type. To override the syntax highlighting mode, choose View Highlight Mode , then choose one of a large list of text file formats falling into the rough categories below:

Plain Text

- Do not display any syntax highlighting.

Sources

- Source code for a number of programming languages.

Markup

- Markup code such as HTML, XML, Markdown and others.

Scripts

- Script code (Bash, sh, etc.).

Others

- Other types of code (e.g. makefiles, awk, sed, etc.).

A search box at the top of the combo box facilitates finding of the desired format by typing in some the letters.

## Shortcut Keys

Use shortcut keys to perform common tasks more quickly than with the mouse and menus. The following tables list all of &app;'s shortcut keys.

Tabs

Shortcuts for notebook tabs:

Shortcut Key | Command
Ctrl + Alt + PageUp or Ctrl + Tab | Switches to the next tab to the left.
Ctrl + Alt + PageDown or Ctrl + Shift + Tab | Switches to the next tab to the right.
Ctrl + W | Close tab.
Ctrl + Shift + L | Save all tabs.
Ctrl + Shift + W | Close all tabs.
Alt + n | Jump to nth tab.

Files

Shortcuts for working with files:

Shortcut Key | Command
Ctrl + N | Create a new document.
Ctrl + O | Open a document.
Ctrl + S | Save the current document to disk.
Ctrl + Shift + S | Save the current document with a new filename.
Ctrl + P | Print the current document.
Ctrl + Shift + P | Print preview.
Ctrl + W | Close the current document (if only on tab open).
Ctrl + Q | Quit Xed.

Edit

Shortcuts for editing documents:

Shortcut Key | Command
Ctrl + Z | Undo the last action.
Ctrl + Y | Redo the last undone action .
Ctrl + X | Cut the selected text or region and place it on the clipboard.
Ctrl + C | Copy the selected text or region onto the clipboard.
Ctrl + V | Paste the contents of the clipboard.
Ctrl + A | Select all.
Ctrl + D | Delete current line.
Alt + Up | Move the selected line up one line.
Alt + Down | Move the selected line down one line.
Alt + Right | Move the selected word one word to the right.
Alt + Left | Move the selected word one word to the left.
Ctrl + U | Change case to all upper.
Ctrl + L | Change case to all lower.
Ctrl + T | Change case to Title Case.
Ctrl + Shift + A | Increment number at cursor.
Ctrl + Shift + X | Decrement number at cursor.
Ctrl + J | Join lines.

View

Shortcuts for showing and hiding panes:

Shortcut Key | Command
F9 | Show/hide the side pane.
Ctrl + F9 | Show/hide the bottom pane.
Alt + F | Open the File menu.
Alt + E | Open the Edit menu.
Alt + V | Open the View menu.
Alt + S | Open the Search menu.
Alt + T | Open the Tools menu.
Alt + D | Open the Documents menu.
Alt + H | Open the Help menu.

Shortcuts for Adjusting text size:

Shortcut Key | Command
Ctrl + = | Increase text size.
Ctrl + - | Decrease text size.
Ctrl + 0 | Default text size.

Search

Shortcuts for searching:

Shortcut Key | Command
Ctrl + F | Find a string.
Ctrl + G | Find the next instance of the string.
Ctrl + Shift + G | Find the previous instance of the string.
Ctrl + K | Interactive search.
Ctrl + H | Search and replace.
Ctrl + I | Goto line.

Tools

Shortcuts for tools:

Shortcut Key | Command
Shift + F7 | Check spelling (with plugin).
Alt + F12 | Remove trailing spaces (with plugin).
Tab | Indent (if block including newline selected).
Shift + Tab | Remove Indent (if block including newline selected).
F8 | Run "make" in current directory (with plugin).
F10 | Sort all of the lines.

Help

Shortcuts for help:

Shortcut Key | Command
F1 | Open &app;'s user manual (this help).

## Preferences

To configure &app;, choose Edit Preferences . The Preferences dialog contains four categories:

### Editor General Preferences

The settings visible under this tab are organized into the categories: Font, Display, Highlighing, Indentation, Wrapping, and Tab scrolling. Details on each are given below:

#### Font

If the user chooses not to use the system fixed width font, a button appears showing the currently selected font and size. Clicking on the button opens a dialog box where a diffent font and size can be selected.

#### Display

Several options control viewing of the file being edited. These options do not affect the content of the file being edited, only the way that the file is viewed.

Display line numbers

- Select the Display line numbers option to display line numbers on the left side of the document viewing window.

Display overview map

- Controls the option to display an overview map (bird's eye view) of the document in a pane on the right side of the &app; window.

Display right margin

- If this is selected a numeric selection box appears for entering the column number of the right margin, and if the document viewing window is widened horizontally beyond the right margin, the background shading changes to help the user avoid typing lines that are too long.

Draw whitespace

- This Controls the visibility of whitespace. If enabled, four additional lines appear for setting the type of whitespace that is visible: Leading whitespace, Trailing whitespace, Whitespace inside of text, and The Newline character.

#### Highlighting

This preference option is for types of highlighting other than syntax highlighting, which is covered elsewhere.

High current line

- Changes the background color of the line the cursor is on.

Highlight matching brackets

- When enabled and the cursor is on a bracket, (e.g. (), {}, [], <>) the background color of that bracket and its matching bracket are changed to aid in matching bracket pairs.

#### Indentation

Three lines control the use of tabs in the text:

Tab width

- Sets the tab width.

Use Spaces instead of tabs

- When enabled, &app; inserts the number of spaces from Tab width in place of the tab character, when the Tab key is typed.

Automatic indentation

- If enabled, &app; will automatically indent the next line the same amount as the current line when the newline (Enter) key is typed.

#### Word wrap

Word wrapping does not effect the contents of the text file, only the way it is viewed in the editing window. If word wrapping is not enabled, a horizontal scroll bar appears at the bottom of the editing window when a line a text exceeds the window boundaries. If Word wrap is enabled an additional option, "Split words over two lines" appears, allowing the editor to break up words to facilitate wrapping.

#### Tab scrolling

This refers to the tabs at the top of the window for selecting the document being edited. If this option is enabled, and the mouse point is over the document tab area, rolling the mouse wheel will cycle through the different document tabs.

### Save Preferences

#### File saving

File Saving

- Select the Create a backup copy of files before saving option to create a backup copy of a file each time you save the file. The backup copy of the file contains a ~ at the end of the filename.

Auto Saving

- Select the Autosave files option to automatically save the current file at regular intervals. Use the spin box to specify how often you want to save the file.

Ensure Trailing Newline

- If enabled &app; will add a newline at the end of the file if one does not already exist.

### Color Themes

#### Dark Theme

Some schemes may come in both dark and light varients. Enable this option to select the dark varient in case the scheme comes in both variants.

#### Style Scheme

You can choose a color scheme from the list of color schemes. By default, the following color schemes are installed:

Classic

- Classic color scheme based on the gvim color scheme.

Cobalt

- Blue based color scheme.

Kate

- Color scheme used in the Kate text editor.

Oblivion

- Dark color scheme using the Tango color palette.

Solarized Dark

- Another Dark color scheme.

Tango

- Color scheme using the Tango color scheme.

You can add a new color scheme by clicking on Add..., and selecting a color scheme file

You can remove the selected color scheme by clicking on Remove

### Plugins Preferences

Plugins add extra features to &app;. For more information on plugins and how to use the built-in plugins, see xed-plugins-overview.

#### Enabling a Plugin

To enable a &app; plugin, perform the following steps:

1. Choose Edit Preferences .

2. Select the Plugins tab.

3. Select the check box next to the name of the plugin that you want to enable.

4. Click Close to close the Preferences dialog.

#### Disabling a Plugin

A plugin remains enabled when you quit &app;.

To disable a &app; plugin, perform the following steps:

1. Choose Edit Preferences .

2. Select the Plugins tab.

3. Deselect the check box next to the name of the plugin that you want to disable.

4. Click Close to close the Preferences dialog.

## Plugins

### Working with Plugins

You can add extra features to &app; by enabling plugins. A plugin is a supplementary program that enhances the functionality of an application. Plugins add new items to the &app; menus for the new features they provide.

Several plugins come built-in with &app;, and you can install more.

To enable and disable plugins, or see which plugins are currently enabled, and/or available use the xed-prefs-plugins.

The following plugins come built-in with &app;:

- xed-bracket-completion-plugin for enclosing bracket characters, automatically adds closing bracket if opening bracket is typed.

- xed-change-case-plugin allows you to change the case of the selected text. (NOTE: This plug-in doesn't appear in th Preferences -> Plugins dialog because it is always enabled.)

- xed-document-statistics-plugin shows the number of lines, words, and characters in the document.

- xed-file-browser-plugin allows you to browse your files and folders in the side pane.

- xed-insert-date-time-plugin adds the current date and time into a document.

- xed-modelines-plugin allows you to set editing preferences for individual documents, and supports Emacs, Kate and Vim-style modelines.

- xed-trailers-plugin eliminates any trailing spaces on each line when document is saved.

- xed-sort-plugin arranges selected lines of text into alphabetical order. (NOTE: Plug-in doesn't appear in preferences; always enabled.)

- xed-spell-checker-plugin corrects the spelling in the selected text, or marks errors automatically in the document.

- xed-tag-list-plugin lets you insert commonly-used tags for HTML and other languages from a list in the side pane.

- xed-word-complete-plugin trys to predict the rest of the word after a few characters have been typed.

### Change Case Plugin

The Change Case plugin changes the case of the selected text.

The change case selection is available in the context (right click) menu when some text is selected:

Menu Item | Action | Example
Right Click Change Case All Upper Case | Change each character to uppercase. | `This text` becomes `THIS TEXT`
Right Click Change Case All Lower Case | Change each character to lowercase. | `This Text` becomes `this text`
Right Click Change Case Invert Case | Change each lowercase character to uppercase, and change each uppercase character to lowercase. | `This Text` becomes `tHIS tEXT`
Right Click Change Case Title Case | Change the first character of each word to uppercase. | `this text` becomes `This Text`

### Document Statistics Plugin

The Document Statistics plugin counts the number of lines, words, characters with spaces, characters without spaces, and bytes in the current file. The plugin displays the results in a Document Statistics dialog. To use the Document Statistics plugin, perform the following steps:

1. Choose Tools Document Statistics to display the Document Statistics dialog. The Document Statistics dialog displays the following information about the file:

   - Number of lines in the current document.

   - Number of words in the current document.

   - Number of characters, including spaces, in the current document.

   - Number of characters, not including spaces, in the current document.

   - Number of bytes in the current document.

2. You can continue to update the &app; file while the Document Statistics dialog is open. To refresh the contents of the Document Statistics dialog, click Update.

### File Browser Plugin

The File Browser Plugin shows your files and folders in the side pane, allowing you to quickly open files.

To view the File Browser, choose View Side Pane and then click on the tab showing the File Browser icon at the top of the side pane.

#### Browsing your Files

The File Browser tab initially shows your file manager bookmarks. To browse the contents of any item, double-click it.

To show a parent folder, choose from the drop-down list, or press the up arrow on the File Browser's toolbar.

To show the folder that contains the document you are currently working on, right-click in the file list and choose Set root to active document.

#### Opening a File

To open a file in &app;, double-click it in the file list.

#### Creating Files and Folders

To create a new, empty text file in the current folder shown in the browser, right-click in the file list and choose New File.

To create a new folder in the current folder shown in the browser, right-click in the file list and choose New Folder.

### Bracket Completion Plugin

The Bracket Completion plugin automatically adds closing bracket if opening bracket is typed. The list of enclosing character types (depending on the language) may include:

() {} [] "" '' <> ``

### Insert Date/Time Plugin

The Insert Date/Time plugin inserts the current date and time into a document. To use the Insert Date/Time plugin, perform the following steps:

1. Choose Edit Insert Date and Time .

   If you have not configured the Insert Date/Time plugin to automatically insert the date/time without prompting you for the format, &app; displays the Insert Date and Time dialog. Select the appropriate date/time format from the list. Click Insert to close the Insert Date and Time dialog. &app; inserts the date/time at the cursor position in the current file.

   If you have configured &app; to use one particular date/time format, the Insert Date and Time dialog is not displayed. The date/time is automatically entered at the cursor position in the current file.

#### Configuring the Insert Date/Time Plugin

To configure the Insert Date/Time plugin, perform the following steps:

1. Choose Edit Preferences .

2. Select the Plugins tab.

3. Select the Insert Date/Time plugin.

4. Click Configure Plugin to display the Configure insert date/time plugin dialog.

5. Select one of the options, as follows:

   - To specify the date/time format each time you insert the date/time, select the Prompt for a format option.

   - To use the same &app;-provided date/time format each time you insert the date/time, select the Use the selected format option, then select the appropriate format from the list. When you select this option, &app; does not prompt you for the date/time format when you choose Edit Insert Date and Time .

   - To use the same customized date/time format each time you insert the date/time, select the Use custom format option, then enter the appropriate format in the text box. For more information about how to specify a custom format, see

     strftime

     3. When you select this option, &app; does not prompt you for the date/time format when you choose Edit Insert Date and Time .

6. Click OK to close the Configure insert date/time plugin dialog.

7. To close the Preferences dialog, click Close.

### Modelines Plugin

The Modelines plugin allows you to set preferences for individual documents. A modeline is a line of text at the start or end of the document with settings that &app; recognises.

Preferences set using modelines take precedence over the ones specified in the preference dialog.

You can set the following preferences with modelines:

- Tab width

- Indent width

- Insert spaces instead of tabs

- Text Wrapping

- Right margin width

The Modelines plugin supports a subset of the options used by other text editors Emacs, Kate and Vim.

#### Emacs Modelines

The first two lines of a document are scanned for Emacs modelines.

The Emacs options for tab-width, indent-offset, indent-tabs-mode and autowrap are supported. For more information, see the GNU Emacs Manual.

#### Kate Modelines

The first and last ten lines of a document are scanned for Kate modelines.

The Kate options for tab-width, indent-width, space-indent, word-wrap and word-wrap-column are supported. For more information, see the Kate website.

#### Vim Modelines

The first and last three lines of a document are scanned for Vim modelines.

The Vim options for et, expandtab, ts, tabstop, sw, shiftwidth, wrap, and textwidth are supported. For more information, see the Vim website.

### Remove Trailing Spaces

This plug-in eliminates any trailing spaces from lines of the document. Trailing spaces would be considered extraneous in almost all cases. The elimination occurs upon any saving of the document.

### Sort Plugin

The Sort plugin arranges selected lines of text into alphabetical order.

To use the Sort plugin, perform the following steps:

1. Select the lines of text you want to sort.

2. Choose Edit Sort .

   If no lines are selected, the entire document will be sorted.

### Spell Checker Plugin

The Spell Checker plugin checks the spelling in the selected text. You can configure &app; to check the spelling automatically, or you can check the spelling manually, in the specified language. The language setting, and the autocheck spelling properties, apply per document. To use the Spell checker plugin, perform the following steps:

1. Choose Tools Set Language to display the Set language dialog. Select the appropriate language from the list. Click OK to close the Set language dialog.

2. To check the spelling automatically, choose Tools Autocheck Spelling . To unset the automatic spell check, choose Tools Autocheck Spelling again. When automatic spell checking is set, an icon is displayed beside the Autocheck Spelling menu item. Automatic spell checking is unset by default, each time &app; starts.

   Unknown spellings are displayed in a different color, and underlined. Right-click on an unknown spelling, then select Spelling Suggestions from the popup menu:

   - To replace the unknown spelling with another spelling in the list, select the replacement spelling from the Spelling Suggestions popup menu.

   - To add the unknown spelling to your personal dictionary, select Spelling Suggestions Add .

   - To ignore all occurrences of the unknown spelling, so that they are no longer flagged as unknown but are not added to your personal dictionary, select Spelling Suggestions Ignore All . The unknown word is ignored in the current &app; session only.

3. To check the spelling manually, choose Tools Check Spelling .

   If there are no spelling errors, an Information dialog displays a message stating that the document does not contain misspelled words. Click OK to close the Information dialog.

   If there are spelling errors, the Check Spelling dialog is displayed:

   - The Misspelled word is displayed at the top of the dialog.

   - A suggested known spelling is displayed in the Change to text box. You can replace this with another known spelling by selecting a spelling from the Suggestions list, or you can enter text directly into the Change to text box.

   - To check the spelling of the text in the Change to text box, click Check Word. If this is a known word, the Suggestions list is replaced with the text `(correct spelling)`. If the word is not known, new entries appear in the Suggestions list.

   - To ignore the current occurrence of the unknown word, click Ignore. To ignore all occurrences of the unknown word, click Ignore All. The unknown word is ignored in the current &app; session only.

   - To change the current occurrence of the unknown word to the text in the Change to text box, click Change. To change all occurrences of the unknown word to the text in the Change to text box, click Change All.

   - To add the unknown word to your personal dictionary, click Add word.

   - To close the Check Spelling dialog, click Close.

### Tag List Plugin

The Tag List plugin allows you to insert common tags (i.e. pieces of text) from a list in the side pane. This is most useful probably for XML or HTML types of files where sets of tags are used to identify formatting for different sections of text. Such tags are typing intensive. A number of standard tag lists come by default with &app;, and other tag lists can be configured. Configuration is done by creating a file in the user's configuration directory (~/.config/xed/taglist/). The file suffix is ".tags". The format of this type of XML file is beyond the scope of this help document, but example tag list files can be found in the installation files (e.g. .../share/xed/plugins/taglist/*)

To use the Tag List plugin, perform the following steps:

1. Choose View Side Pane .

2. By default, the side pane shows a tab containing a list of open documents. Click on the tab showing a + icon at the top of the side pane to show the tag list tab.

3. Select the appropriate tag category from the drop-down list. For example, HTML - Tags.

4. Scroll through the tag list to find the required tag.

5. To insert a tag at the cursor position in the current file, double-click on the tag in the tag list. You can also insert a tag as follows:

   - To insert a tag in the current file and change the focus from the side pane to the display area, press Return.

   - To insert a tag in the current file and maintain the focus on the Tag list plugin window, press Shift Return.

### Word Completion Plugin

This will try to guess the remainder of a word after the first few characters have been typed. A drop-down box will appear with the word choices. Select the desired word using the a mouse click, or arrow keys.