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Eight text window modes can be defined freely; Seven preset text
window modes have a fixed purpose; these are Default setup, used
for editing `generic' files, HTML, LaTeX and C/C++ for predefined
languages, BSL editor, for editing language
definitions, Binary editor for editing binary
files and Info browsers for read-only browsers (Edith info index (Edith menu,
For all of these modes except Default setup, you can choose whether these modes should have individual parameters for e.g. colour settings and dimensions. When a text mode does not have individual parameters, the ones for the Default setup apply.
In addition to switching on or off parameter sets for text window
modes, you can specify, for each non-preset mode, a name and a set
of file masks. The latter are supposed to match the types of file
you most frequently edit. Files matching the specified masks will
automatically be opened in the corresponding user-defined text mode, and
hence get their own colouring, font, editor parameters and shortcut
sets. User defined modes are automatically selected on loading a text,
based on the name of a file (e.g. in a mode for HTML editing the
triggering file mask could be *.htm*
). If no name is matched,
the default mode will be selected.
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