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diff --git a/doc/04_WorkingWithFiles.md b/doc/04_WorkingWithFiles.md index c8fc43c5..4a941a40 100644 --- a/doc/04_WorkingWithFiles.md +++ b/doc/04_WorkingWithFiles.md @@ -29,16 +29,16 @@ Textadept shows the name of the active buffer in its titlebar. Pressing Individual files have three configurable settings: indentation, line endings, and encoding. Indentation consists of an indentation character and an -indentation size. Line endings are characters that separate lines. File -encoding determines how text characters are displayed. Textadept shows these +indentation size. Line endings are the characters that separate lines. File +encoding specifies how to display text characters. Textadept shows these settings in the buffer status statusbar.  #### Indentation -Usually, [language modules][] or [user settings][] dictate the buffer's -indentation setting. By default, indentation is 2 spaces. Pressing +Normally, a [language module][] or the [user settings][] dictate a buffer's +indentation settings. By default, indentation is 2 spaces. Pressing `Ctrl+Alt+Shift+T` (`^⇧T` on Mac OSX | `M-T` or `M-S-T` in curses) manually toggles between using tabs and spaces, although this only affects future indentation. Existing indentation remains unchanged. `Ctrl+Alt+I` (`^I` | `M-I`) @@ -46,25 +46,24 @@ performs the conversion. (If the buffer uses tabs, all indenting spaces convert to tabs. If the buffer uses spaces, all indenting tabs convert to spaces.) Similarly, the "Buffer -> Indentation" menu manually sets indentation size. -[language modules]: 07_Modules.html#Buffer.Properties +[language module]: 07_Modules.html#Buffer.Properties [user settings]: 08_Preferences.html#Buffer.Properties #### Line Endings -The current platform determines which line endings, commonly known as -end-of-line (EOL) markers, to use by default. On Windows it is CRLF ("\r\n"). On -all other platforms it is LF ('\n'). Textadept first tries to auto-detect the -EOL mode of opened files before falling back on the platform default. The -"Buffer -> EOL Mode" menu manually changes line endings and, unlike indentation -settings, automatically converts all existing EOLs. +Textadept determines which default line endings, commonly known as end-of-line +(EOL) markers, to use based on the current platform. On Windows it is CRLF +("\r\n"). On all other platforms it is LF ('\n'). Textadept first tries to +auto-detect the EOL mode of opened files before falling back on the platform +default. The "Buffer -> EOL Mode" menu manually changes line endings and, unlike +indentation settings, automatically converts all existing EOLs. #### Encodings -Textadept represents all characters and strings internally as UTF-8. UTF-8 is -compatible with ASCII so those files are always detected properly. Textadept -also recognizes ISO-8859-1 and MacRoman, two common encodings used on Windows -and Mac OSX respectively. If you work with files whose encodings Textadept does -not recognize, add the encodings to [`io.encodings`][] in your [preferences][]. +Textadept has the ability to decode files encoded in many different encodings, +but by default it only attempts to decode UTF-8, ASCII, ISO-8859-1, and +MacRoman. If you work with files with encodings Textadept does not recognize, +add those encodings to [`io.encodings`][] in your [preferences][]. UTF-8 is the recommended file encoding because of its wide support by other text editors and operating systems. The "Buffer -> Encoding" menu changes the file |