Inter-Office Memorandum To Cedar Interest Date October 11, 1982 From Bill Paxton Location Palo Alto Subject The Tioga Editor Organization PARC/ISL XEROX Filed on: [Indigo]Documentation>TiogaDoc.Tioga and TiogaDoc.Press Uses: [Indigo]Styles>TiogaDoc.Style and Cedar.Style The Tioga Editor Introduction This is an overview of Tioga as available for Cedar 3.4 in October, 1982. Tioga is a system to help you prepare documents. Its two main components are an editor and a typesetter. The editor lets you create the text of a document. The typesetter composes the text into pages for printing. Tioga is already capable of dealing with simple technical papers and is also well suited to more mundane tasks such as writing programs and memos. In future versions, it will be suitable for complex technical documents and books and will support tables, math formulas, and figures containing synthetic graphics or scanned images. If you are looking at this document on-line, you might want to use the level-clipping function to see the overall structure rather than simply plowing straight through. Hit the "Levels" button in the top menu, then hit "FirstLevelOnly" in the new menu that appears. That will show you the major section headings. Hit "MoreLevels" to see the subsections, or hit "AllLevels" to read the details. Overview Some editors represent a document as a list of paragraphs. In Tioga, a document is a tree structure rather than a list so that you can explicitly represent its hierarchical structure. In discussing the document tree we use Computer Science terminology in which a branch is recursively defined to be a node having zero or more children branches. The root node of the document tree is not displayed  although it can be modified by a few special commands  so the document basically appears to be a list of top-level branches. Each node in the tree contains text. The characters of the text can have looks which control various aspects of their appearance such as font and size. Appearance is also influenced by the format of the node which determines things such as vertical and horizontal spacing. The document contains names of looks and formats, but not the specific interpretation of them. The interpretations are instead collected in a style which can be shared by many documents. For example, in the style for this document there are definitions of formats for titles, headings, and standard paragraphs, and there are definitions of looks for emphasis and for small caps. Rather than copying the specific details for the formats and looks, the document refers to them by name so it is easy to change the definitions in the style and modify the appearance uniformly throughout the document. The details of the style language will be described in a forthcoming memo. User Categories The Tioga user-interface is "layered" so that beginning users can protect themselves from the confusion that results from mistakenly giving a command. In ways described below, you can tell the system that you are either a beginner, an intermediate, or an advanced user. If you do nothing, the default is beginner. As far as the Tioga user-interface is concerned, the user category determines which keyboard commands are currently enabled. As a beginner, you get the commands that use the special keys at the left and right of the keyboard, plus CTRL-A and CTRL-W for backspace character and word, respectively. As an intermediate user, you add a large number of commands that use print keys in combination with the various shift keys. As an advanced user, you add the keyboard commands for manipulating the document tree structure. Any category of user can get at any of the commands by using the Edit Tool. The user category mechanism is meant to let you protect yourself, not to limit you. You are free to change your own category at any time you feel like it. For example, to declare yourself to be an intermediate user, edit your user profile to say "UserCategory: intermediate". Input Devices Mouse The mouse has three buttons named LEFT, MIDDLE, and RIGHT corresponding to their physical layout. Keyboard Used for commands as well as text input. Here are the names for the special keys. LOOK (looks shift). top right blank key. NEXT. middle right blank key. REPEAT. key labelled ESC. DELETE. key labelled DEL. LOAD FILE. key labelled LF. The bottom right blank key is an alternative CTRL key. You can use either CTRL key and either SHIFT key interchangeably. Scrolling and Thumbing To move a viewer to look at a different part of the document, move the cursor into the left margin until it becomes a double arrow pointing both up and down. The part of the margin that becomes gray is called the "scroll bar". The dark gray part shows the relative size and location of the currently visible portion of the document. Click LEFT to move the text adjacent to the arrow to the top of the viewer. Click RIGHT to move the text from the top of the viewer down to the arrow. These operations are called "scrolling" the document. If you hold down MIDDLE in the scroll bar, the cursor becomes a right-pointing arrow. If you move the cursor to x% down from the top of the viewer and let up, the viewer will change to start about x% of the way through the document. This operation is called "thumbing". Selections The details of making selections will be covered later on. For now, you simply need to know that there is a single primary selection on the screen. The viewer containing the selection is referred to as the "selected viewer". Many of the following commands deal with the selection or the selected viewer. Menus Top level menu Save  writes a new version of the file Requires confirmation before writing the file. Old version of the file is renamed to have a "$" at the end of the extension so that you can retrieve it if necessary. If the version of the file on the disk has a more recent create date than the document you are about to save, the system will tell you. This is to warn you about situations in which you load a file and while it is in a viewer transfer a more recent version to your disk. Get  loads the file named by the selection into a viewer If the confirming click is done with the left button, the file is loaded into the "clicked" viewer and replaces the previous contents. If it is done with the middle button, a new viewer is created below the clicked one. Finally, if it is done with the right button, the clicked viewer is closed and a new viewer appears in its place. A comment will appear in the message window to remind of this. If you use a remote file name, such as /Cedar/Documentation/TiogaDoc.Tioga, the system will fetch the file and make the viewer "ReadOnly". This lets you browse remote files and copy information from them. In future releases, Tioga will support editing of remote files. File Extensions If the selected name does not include an explicit extension (i.e., there is no period in the selected text), Tioga will search for the file using a set of standard extensions. The default extensions are mesa, tioga, df, cm, config, and style. You can specify your own list of extensions with a user profile entry for "SourceFileExtensions". If the selected name is of the form . and such a file exists, it is opened. Otherwise, if is one of the standard set of extensions, you will be informed that the file doesn't exist. However, if is not a standard extension, the system tries to open the file as if you had simply selected . If this succeeds, it searches in the file for a definition of . This convention is intended for use with programs that have many instances of . in which .mesa is a file containing a definition for . GetImpl  like Get but loads the file that implements the selected interface name If the selected name does not include an explicit extension (i.e., there is no period in the selected text), Tioga will use a set of standard implementation extensions. Currently, mesa is the only default implementation extension. You can specify your own list of implementation extensions with a user profile entry for "ImplFileExtensions". If the selected name is of the form . and an implementation for the item is currently loaded, the system will find the name of the file holding the implementation (our thanks to the Cedar runtime model for providing this information). Otherwise, the system tries to open the file as if you had simply selected , and, if this succeeds, searches in the file for a definition of . PrevFile  like Get but reloads the file that was previously in this viewer Reset  discards edits by reloading the filed version of the document Store  like Save but writes to the file named by the current selection Clear  creates an empty viewer If the confirming click is done with the left button, the "clicked" viewer is cleared. If it is done with the middle button, a new empty viewer is created below the clicked one. Finally, if it is done with the right button, the clicked viewer is closed and a new empty viewer appears in its place. The empty viewer will say "No Name" at the top in the place that would normally hold the file name. Naturally the most common thing to do with a "No Name" viewer is to load a file. If you type a file name into a "No Name" viewer and then hit LF, it is as if you selected the name and hit Get but no confirmation is required. CTRL-LF provides a similar function for GetImpl. Time  inserts the current time at the caret Split  creates a new viewer looking at the same document The selection is highlighted in one viewer only, however edits will be reflected in all viewers for the document. Note that the split viewers can be independently closed, opened, or moved on the screen. Places, Levels  show/remove submenus Places The Places menu contains commands that cause the viewer to begin displaying at a new place in the document. The first three of the commands search for instances of the current selection. For these commands, the button used in clicking the menu item determines how the search is carried out  click LEFT to search towards the end of the document, RIGHT to search towards the start of the document, or MIDDLE to search first towards the end and, if that fails, then towards the start. If the selection is visible in the viewer, the search starts there. Otherwise, it starts from the top of the viewer. Find Find another instance of the selected text. In this command and the following two, capitalization matters in the search (e.g., hitting Find with "the" selected will not select "The"). Word Find an instance of the selected text that is a "word"  i.e., doesn't have adjacent letters or digits. Def Find a "definition" of the selected text  i.e., an instance of the selected text that is immediately followed by a colon and doesn't have an immediately prior alphanumeric. Position This is useful with compiler error messages that give locations as character counts. The command scrolls to the selected character number and then selects it  e.g., if "183" is selected, scroll to and select character number 183 in the document. Normalize If the document in this viewer contains the selection, scrolls to make the caret visible. Otherwise scrolls to the start of the document. PrevPlace Go back to the place that was previously visible in this viewer discounting manual scrolling that may have taken place since. Reselect Restore the most recent selection in this viewer and scroll to it. Levels These commands let you control how deep the display goes in the document tree structure. FirstLevelOnly  show only the top level nodes MoreLevels  show one more level than currently FewerLevels  show one fewer level than currently AllLevels  show all levels of the tree Selections Primary selections The primary selection is the one that's around most of the time and is the usual site for edits. It is displayed with a solid underline or with video reverse. Make a primary selection with the mouse in ways described below. During certain editing operations such as Copy or Move there is a "secondary" selection which is displayed as a gray underline or background. Insertion point The insertion point goes with primary selection. It is shown by a blinking "caret" at one end or the other of the selection  the end closer to the cursor when the selection was made or the one most recently extended. Making selections The selection hierarchy The selection hierarchy consists of the following levels at which a selection can exist: point, character, word, node, branch, and document. Point selection The primary selection has a blinking caret at one end. Some operations, such as delete and type-in, reduce the selection to just the caret. This is called a point selection. Character selection Click LEFT with the cursor over the desired character. You can hold LEFT down and move to correct place before letting the button up. You can cancel the new selection by hitting DEL while the mouse button is still down. The system will restore the previous selection. Word selection A "word" is defined as a sequence of letters and digits or a sequence of identical characters that are not letters or digits. Use the MIDDLE mouse button to make word selections. As with character selection, you can hold MIDDLE down and move to the correct word before letting up. Node selection Double click LEFT to select a node. Branch selection A branch is a node and any children branches it might have. Double click MIDDLE to select a branch. Document selection CTRL-D extends the selection to include the entire document. "D" stands for for "Document". Selection extension Extend an existing selection by pointing at a new endpoint and clicking RIGHT. The system will extend the end of the selection closer to the cursor when RIGHT goes down. You can hold RIGHT down and move the endpoint to a new position. If you just click RIGHT, the selection is extended at the same level in the selection hierarchy. For example, a selection at the word level will be extended a word at a time. Double click RIGHT to extend at a lower level in selection hierarchy. Triple click to extend at a higher level in selection hierarchy. Thus, if you have a node-level selection and wish to extend it to a word position within a node, double click RIGHT to reduce the level to words and then do the extension. If necessary, you can then double click again to reduce to character level. Editing by making selections Delete selections A delete selection is deleted as soon as the selection is completed. It is shown as video reverse. Hold down CTRL to make a delete selection. The selection is complete when you let up on both the mouse button and the CTRL key. Pending-delete selections "Pending-delete" selections are automatically deleted by subsequent insertions. They are shown with video reverse rather than solid underline. Whenever you extend a selection it is automatically made pending-delete. Notice that you don't have to actually change the selection when you "extend" it. For example, you can click MIDDLE to select a word and then immediately click RIGHT to make it pending-delete. Or you can combine these actions by "rolling" from the LEFT or MIDDLE mouse button to the RIGHT button to make a char or word selection pending-delete. For example, the sequence MIDDLE-down, RIGHT-down, MIDDLE-up, RIGHT-up will produce a pending-delete word selection. Copy and Move Source selections are made with the SHIFT key held down and are shown with a gray underline. Copy source to primary If you hold down the SHIFT key and select, the source selection will be copied. If the primary selection is currently pending-delete, it will be replaced by the copy of the source. Otherwise, the copy will be inserted at the caret. Move source to primary If you hold down the SHIFT key and the CTRL key, the source selection will be moved. As before, if the primary selection is pending-delete, it will be replaced by the source. Otherwise, the source will be moved to the caret. Destination selections for Copy and Move The operations described above work by copying or moving a source selection to the primary selection. However, often the primary selection is itself the thing you want to copy or move. The following two commands take care of these situations. Copy primary To copy the primary selection, hit CTRL-S, and with the control key still held down, select a destination. The copy takes place as soon as you let the keys up. The primary selection is made not-pending-delete as soon as you hit CTRL-S to indicate that it will be copied rather than moved. Move primary To move the primary selection, hit CTRL-Z, and with the control key still held down, select a destination. The move takes place as soon as you let the keys up. The primary selection is made pending-delete as soon as you hit CTRL-Z to indicate that it will be moved rather than copied. Transpose selections We now have covered commands to copy or move either the primary or the source selections. A final option is to transpose the primary and the source. To do this, hit CTRL-X, and with the control key still held down, select a source. The transpose takes place as soon as you let the keys and mouse buttons up. Miscellaneous Cancelling a selection Hit DEL before finishing the selection and the previous selection will be restored. This works during either primary, source, destination, or transpose selections. Placeholders A "placeholder" is all the text between a matching pair of placeholder brackets,  . Hit NEXT to find and select the next placeholder beyond the current selection. Hit SHIFT-NEXT to find the previous one. Recall that NEXT is the blank key to the right of RETURN. If there isn't another placeholder, NEXT will move the selection to the end of the document. If the selection is already at the end, NEXT will try to find the next nested text viewer. Similarly, SHIFT-NEXT will move the selection to the start of the document if it doesn't find a previous placeholder and will try to find the previous nested text viewer if it is already at the start. This allows you to use NEXT both when filling in placeholders within a document and when filling in text viewers in tools. Select visible  expand selection to blanks CTRL-V expands the selection to include the "visible" characters on the left and right ends. Select matching brackets CTRL-] extends the selection to the left and right to find a matching pair of [..]'s. Similarly for CTRL-}, CTRL-), and CTRL->. Note that you hit CTRL with the right bracket to extend the selection. In addition, you can hit CTRL with the left bracket to insert matching brackets around the selection. Fine point: Unfortunately, our keyboards don't have both left and right quote keys. However most of the fonts, including TimesRoman and Helvetica, do provide a left and right single quote. The keyboard key inserts a right single quote (code 047); the left single quote (code 140) can be inserted using the MakeOctalCharacter command in the Edit Tool or with the Insert Matching Single Quotes command (CTRL-'). The Edit Tool also has a command which extends the selection to find a matching pair of left and right single quotes. The situation for double quotes is even less uniform. Some fonts, such as Classic, have a left double quote (code 264) in addition to a right double quote (code 042). However, most fonts have only the 042 double quote, so the Tioga commands for inserting and matching double quotes use that code exclusively. Editing Text input Typed-in characters are inserted at the caret. To insert the current time use CTRL-T  "T" for Time. When you insert a carriage return by hitting RETURN, the system will automatically copy the blank characters (tabs and spaces) from the start of the previous line. To suppress this, type SHIFT-RETURN and only the carriage return will be inserted. To insert control characters or characters with a specific octal code, use CTRL-K or CTRL-O. The former will change the character before the caret to a control character, while the latter will convert the three digits before the caret to the corresponding octal character. The inverse operations are also available as CTRL-SHIFT-K and CTRL-SHIFT-O. Abbreviation Expansion CTRL-E  "E" for Expand abbreviation When you hit CTRL-E, the caret is moved to the right of the selection if necessary and the keyname to the left of the caret is then replaced by the expansion text (according to the definition which is linked to the style in a manner described below). If the keyname had looks, they are added to the expansion. If the keyname was all caps, the expansion is made all caps too. If the keyname had an initial cap, the first character of the expansion is made uppercase (useful at the start of sentences, for example). If the definition node has a non-null format, the format of the caret node is changed to be the same as the definition node. If the expansion contains a placeholder, the first placeholder is selected. Otherwise the entire expansion is selected. Definitions for abbreviations come from Tioga documents which are automatically read by the system when needed. The name of the appropriate abbreviations file is determined by the style that is in effect at the caret when the expansion takes place. For example, if the style is "Report", the abbreviations will come from the file "Report.Abbreviations". You can override this by explicitly naming the abbreviations file along with the keyname. For example, "Mesa.proc" will expand the abbreviation for "proc" from the file "Mesa.Abbreviations" independent of the style in effect at the caret. (Fine point: Since the system interprets a period before the keyname to mean that you're specifying a particular abbreviations file, you cannot type a vanilla abbreviation after a period.) Each definition in an abbreviations file consists of a separate branch. The top node of the branch holds the keyname followed by an equals sign and then the text expansion. The rest of the branch, if any, is copied after the caret node as part of expanding the abbreviation. Any text following the keyname is moved to the end of the last child node in the branch. The definition may also include a list of operations to be performed after the expansion has been inserted. These operations have the same format as those in EditTool and are placed in parentheses after the keyname and before the equals sign. Delete Character or Word BackSpace: CTRL-A, CTRL-H, or BS. Deletes the character to the left of the caret. Fine point: If the caret is at the start of a node, this does a Join command (q.v.). BackWord: CTRL-W, or CTRL-BS. Deletes the word to the left of the caret. DeleteNextChar: CTRL-SHIFT-A, CTRL-SHIFT-H, or SHIFT-BS. Deletes the character to the right of the caret. DeleteNextWord: CTRL-SHIFT-W, or CTRL-SHIFT-BS. Deletes the word to the right of the caret. Delete As mentioned above, you can delete something by selecting it with CTRL held down. In addition, you can delete the current selection by hitting DEL. Paste Paste: CTRL-P. The most recently deleted text is copied to the caret. You can also use the Edit Tool to save the current selection to be pasted later. Copy, Move, Replace, and Transpose These operations are all carried out by making selections. They are described in detail in the previous section. Insert matching brackets CTRL-[ adds a matching pair of [..]'s to the ends of the selection. Similar CTRL commands exist for {, (, <, -, ', and ". CTRL-B inserts matching placeholder brackets . Note: CTRL-' inserts a left single quote (code 140) and a right single quote (code 047); CTRL-" inserts the same character (code 042) at each end of the selection. Case All lower: CTRL-C. Makes the selection all lower case. All caps: CTRL-SHIFT-C. Makes the selection all upper case. Initial caps: CTRL-double C. Capitalizes each word in the selection. First cap: CTRL-SHIFT-double C. Capitalizes the first word of the selection Repeat Hitting ESC will repeat the most recent non-empty edit sequence starting with the current selection. Edit sequences are separated by user-made selections. For example, if you select a word, delete it, type a new one, and then select something else, the edit sequence is delete followed by text entry. If you hit Repeat, the system will do a delete and retype the new word. Auto-repeat is done by ESC-select: if you hold down the ESC key while making a selection, a Repeat will automatically be done as soon as the selection is completed. This is useful when you're doing a large number of repeats. Undo Hitting SHIFT-ESC undoes the most recent edit sequence and restores the selection to its prior state. If you want to undo more than just the most recent sequence, use the Edit History tool which is described later. Tree structure editing As explained in the introduction, Tioga documents consist of a tree of nodes. The following commands let you break, join, and nest nodes in the tree. Break: CTRL-RETURN  break node at insertion point to create a new node. Join: CTRL-J  join node at insertion point with previous node. Nest: CTRL-N  move selected nodes to deeper nesting level in tree. UnNest: CTRL-SHIFT-N  move selected nodes to shallower nesting level in tree. Break & Nest: CTRL-I  simultaneously insert a new node and nest it. Break & UnNest: CTRL-SHIFT-I  simultaneously insert and unnest. Looks Characters have looks which are named by the lower case letters "a" to "z". Looks are interpreted by the style to change the appearance of the text. For example, look "e" might stand for "emphasis" and might result in italic face in one style and bold face in another. Each character has a set of looks  thus it may have several looks simultaneously, but each look occurs only once. You can use the Edit Tool to read or change the set of looks for selected characters. The following keyboard commands are also available for dealing with looks. Selection Looks You can change the selection looks with the following commands. (Recall that the LOOK shift is the top blank key to the right of BS.) LOOK-char to add to selection looks. LOOK-SHIFT-char to remove from selection looks. LOOK-space to remove all selection looks. Caret Looks Caret looks determine the looks of typed-in text. The caret picks up the looks of the adjacent selected text whenever a selection is made. Changing the selection looks also changes the caret looks. However, if you wish to change the looks of the caret without changing the selection looks, click the character key twice in quick succession. LOOK-char-char to add to caret looks. LOOK-SHIFT-char-char to remove from caret looks. LOOK-space-space to remove all caret looks. Using Selections To Copy Looks To copy the looks of some existing text to the primary selection, hit CTRL-Q, and then with the CTRL key still held down, select the text with the looks you want to copy. The source looks replace any looks the selection previously had. Automatic Mesa formatting The CTRL-M command scans the selection for Mesa keywords, comments, and procedure names and gives them looks k, c, and n respectively. (As a convenience during typein, the entire caret node is reformatted if the selection is a caret only.) With the standard Cedar style, the keywords will then be displayed in small caps, the comments will be italic, and the procedure names will be boldface. We expect to provide more extensive reformatting capabilities in the future. Formats Just as characters have looks, nodes have formats. The "format" is the name of a rule in the style that tells how to modify various parameters when displaying the node. For example, a style for documents might contain formats for titles, headings, quotations, standard paragraphs, etc. The Edit Tool has facilities for reading and changing the format of a node, or you can use the commands described below. (By convention, the null format name is equivalent to "default".) Setting and inserting caret node format CTRL-_ will delete the word to the left of the caret and make it the format of the caret node. Fine point: In most cases you will give this command immediately after typing the format name, so the caret will naturally be in the correct place. However, to handle cases in which you select the name before hitting CTRL-_, the caret will automatically be forced to the right of the selection at the start of this command. CTRL-SHIFT-_ inserts the format name. This gives you a simple way to find out the format of a selected node. Using selections to copy formats To copy the format of some exisiting node to the selection nodes, hit CTRL-F, and then with the CTRL key still held down, select the node with the format you want to copy. The Edit Tool The Edit Tool provides a variety of operations on Tioga documents. The Edit Tool menu contains some special commands in addition to the usual viewer operations. The "Bigger" command enlarges the Edit Tool, while the "Smaller" menu item does the opposite. The "Stop" button lets you interrupt lengthy substitutions and sorts. The second line of the menu contains buttons for search and substitute which are discussed below. The text fields in the Edit Tool follow the convention that clicking the field name with LEFT causes the contents of the field to be selected pending-delete while clicking with RIGHT causes the field to be cleared and selected. Search and Substitute Search To do a search, enter the text you're looking for in the "Target" field, select where you want the search to start, and click "Search" with the left mouse button to search forward, with the right button to search backwards, or with the middle button to search first forward then backwards. The system searches from the current selection and updates the selected viewer if the search succeeds. (Fine point: in both searches and substitutes, the match is limited to a single node  we do not yet have mechanisms for doing matches across node boundaries.) The multiple choices below the "Replacement" field control what is matched in searches and replaced in substitutes. You can select or deselect an item by clicking it with the mouse. White text on black background means that the item is selected; black text on white means it is not selected. Text  if this option is selected, match characters of target text when searching. Looks  if selected, match looks of target text when searching. Format  match format of target node. Style  match style of target node. Comment  match comment property of target node. For example, if you pick the Looks option and deselect the Text option, you can search for any text that has a particular set of looks. If you pick only Text, the matching will ignore the looks of the target. If you pick Text and Looks, the matching text must match both the characters and the looks of the target text. The other options deal with node properties. If you pick Format, the matching will be limited to nodes with the same format as the target node. Similarly, if you pick Style, the matching will only look at nodes whose style is the same as the target node's. Finally, if you pick Comment, the match will consider only nodes with the same value of the Comment property (TRUE or FALSE) as the target. The first two rows of boxes below the multiple choices give you control over how matching is performed. Click LEFT with the cursor over a box to change the choice next to it. The various choices are as follows: 1. Case of matching text Match Case  matching text must have same case as target text. Ignore Case  matching text does not have to have same case as target text. 2. Interpretation of target text Match Literally  don't treat target text as a pattern. Match as Pattern  do treat target as pattern. (Patterns are described below.) 3. Context of target text Match Anywhere  ignore context of matching text. Match Words Only  matching text must not have adjacent letters or digits. Match Entire Nodes Only  matching text must span entire node. 4. Matching target looks Subset as Looks Test  looks of matching text must include target looks. Equal as Looks Test  looks of matching text must be identical to target looks. Substitute To do a substitution, enter the new text in the "Replacement" field, enter the text to be replaced in the "Target" field, and hit "Substitute" in the menu at the top of the Edit Tool. The Text/Looks/Format/... options guide the search in the usual manner and also control what is replaced. If you pick Text and Looks, the matching text will be replaced just as if you had selected it with pending delete and made a source secondary selection of the replacement text. If you pick only the Looks option, the matching text will have the target looks removed and the replacement looks added. If you pick only Text, the replacement text will have the looks of the replaced text added to it. (Fine point: if the looks of the replaced text are not uniform, the looks of the first character will be used throughout.) If you pick Format, the matching node will get the format of the replacement node. Similarly, picking Style causes the matching node to get the style of the replacement node, and picking Comment causes the matching node to get the same value of the Comment property as the replacement node. The final three boxes in the Search&Substitute section give you further control over this operation. 1. First character capitalization of the replacement text First cap like replaced  if the replaced text starts with a capital letter, force the first letter of the replacement to be a capital too. Don't change caps  leave the replacement capitalization alone. 2. What is done to the matching text Do Replace  do the usual substitute or replace. Do Operations  instead of doing a replace, select the matching text and then do the operations currently in the "Operations" field of the Edit Tool. 3. Where the substitutions will take place Within Selection Only  substitute is limited to current selection. After Selection Only  substitute after selection to end of document. In Entire Document  substitute in the entire selected document. Case-by-Case Substitutes In addition to doing global substitutes, you can decide on a case-by-case basis whether or not to replace the matching text by the new text. Use the search commands to find the first matching text. Then if you hit "Yes", the system will do a "Replace" followed by a search forward. If you hit "No", it will skip the "Replace" and simply do another search. Thus to selectively substitute, start with a search, then do "Yes" for the cases you want to change and "No" for the others. The "Replace" command simply does for the current selection what a substitute would do for a match. Finally, the "Count" command is available to tell you how many substitutions would take place without actually changing the document. In order to do a search or substitute, you will typically need to fill in the Target or Replacement fields in the Edit Tool. Naturally, this changes the selection, and before you can do the operation, you must restore the selection to the place where you actually want it to take place. The system helps you with this by saving the primary selection if it is not in the Edit Tool when you click either the Target or the Replacement button. The commands along the top of the Edit Tool  Seach, Substitute, Yes, No, Replace, and Count  restore the saved selection if the primary selection is in the Edit Tool when they are clicked. The net effect is that if you start out with the selection in the right place, you can click the Target or Replacement buttons, fill in the needed information, and then directly click one of the commands without needing to reselect since the system will do it for you. Patterns for Search and Substitute When you specify that the target be matched as a pattern rather than literally, the following symbols in the target text are interpreted specially. A short summary of these symbols appears at the bottom of the Search&Substitute section of the Edit Tool. ' Match the next character in the pattern exactly. ~ Match any character except the next one in the pattern. # Match any single character. * Match any sequence of characters. @ Match any single alphanumeric character (letter or digit). & Match any sequence of alphanumeric characters. ~@ Match any single non-alphanumeric character. ~& Match any sequence of non-alphanumeric characters. % Match any single blank character. $ Match any sequence of blank characters. ~% Match any single non-blank character. ~$ Match any sequence of non-blank characters. | Match start or end of node. { Mark start of resulting selection. } Mark end of resulting selection. < Mark start of named subpattern. > Mark end of named subpattern. The named subpatterns are of use in substitutes that reorder or duplicate parts of the matching text. The full syntax for a named subpattern is . The special case of "match any sequence of characters" is provided as a default  i.e., is equivalent to . As far as the matching is concerned, the occurrence of is the same as if the subpattern had appeared without a name, but it has the side-effect of remembering the subsection it matched. The "Replacement" field can contain 's corresponding to named subpatterns in the target. The replacement text is constructed by replacing the 's with the section of replaced text that matched the subpattern. The replacement is automatically considered to be a pattern whenever the target is  you don't need to do anything special to get the 's in the replacement interpreted as subpatterns. For example, if the target is Target: WHILE [] DO and the replacement is Replacement: WHILE IS DO then "WHILE blue[moon] DO" will be converted to "WHILE moon IS blue DO". Looks, Formats, Styles, and Properties Looks The Looks commands let you read and modify the looks of the caret or the selection. The looks are shown as a series of letters in the "Looks characters" field. The box lets you pick whether you want the looks for the selection or the looks for the caret. Get  fills the "Looks characters" field with the letters for the caret/selection looks. Set  reads the "Looks characters" field and sets the looks of the caret/selection. Clear  removes all looks from the caret/selection. Add  adds the specified looks to the caret/selection. Sub  removes the specified looks from the caret/selection. Formats The Format commands let you read and modify the format for the root node or the selected nodes. The box at the right lets you pick the case you want. Get  fills the "Format name" field. Set  reads the "Format name" field and sets the node's format. Clear  removes the node's format name. This is the same as specifying "default" format. Styles A style is a collection of interpretations for looks and formats. The Style commands let you read and modify the name of the style for the root node or the selected nodes. The new style applies to the specified node and all the nodes within its sub-branches that do not themselves have explicit styles. Fine point: If a document does not have an explicit style specified for it, Tioga will use the default style. You can specify a default style by means of a user profile entry of the form DefaultStyle: