Glossary

From Niki

To avoid confusion, it can be useful to clarify some frequently overlapping and ambiguous technical terms, or more precisely: nail down a common, fixed usage for the context of NEdit. Since NEdit's design, history, and indeed purpouse is very much rooted in the usability thinking from the Macintosh and Windows world, so is the vocabulary chosen:

• Buffer: A programming concept that one should not need to know or understand in order to use an editor.
• Document: A text that is edited with NEdit.
• File: The document's representation in the file system.
• Tab:
  1. A special character used for horizontal formatting of text.
  2. A small, labelled user-interface element for selecting one of several documents overlaid within the same window.
• Window: A largest contiguous rectangle controlled by NEdit. Outside it rules the window manager.