Alpha
Version:9.2.3 - "Suhail"
Last update:2021-05-21 14:43:30



This document is a thematic dashboard for accessing various documentation topics regarding the Alpha text editor. The main user's guide can be found here: Alpha Manual.
For a quick access, see the index of topics at the end of this page.

Manuals

Alpha Manual
Extending Alpha
Quick Start

Preferences

Alpha Preferences
Alpha Colors

Text Editing

Alpha Fonts
Diff Mode
Electrics
Filesets
Keyboard Shortcuts
Regular Expressions

Modes, Menus and Features Help

To get help about a specific package (a mode, a menu or a feature), use the Help ↣ Modes Help Help ↣ Menus Help Help ↣ Features Help submenus of the Help menu in Alpha. They contain a complete list of all the corresponding packages available in the AlphaTcl library. Selecting any item from these submenus, opens the corresponding help page.
For general purpose documentation about Alpha's library and extensions, see:
Modes Menus Features
For a thorough documentation of LaTeX support in Alpha, see:
Latex_guide
The following tables give a quick access to the documentation of the main modes, menus and features:
Modes
Aida Mode
Alpha-TeX Typesetting
Apple Script Mode
Apple Script Mode Tutorial
Bash Mode
BibTeX Mode
Diff Mode
Fortran Mode
Gnuplot Mode
Haskell Mode
Html Css Mode
Lisp Mode
Markdown Mode
Matlab Mode
Metafont Mode
Metapost Mode
Modula2Mode
Perl Mode
PHPMode
Plc Mode
Postscript Mode
Setext Mode
Sh Mode
SMode
Statistical Modes
Tcl Mode
Text Mode
Xml Mode
Zsh Mode
Menus
Alpha Dev Menu
Colors Menu
Electric Menu
Filters Menu
Ftp Menu
Gs Menu
Help Menu
Mac Menu
Mailer Alpha
Mailer Eudora
Mail Menu
User Menu
Wiki Menu
WWWMenu
Features
Address Book
Alpha Server
Better Templates
Bib Delimited
BibTeX Conversion
Bib To Html
Bib To Refer
Box Drawings
Calculator
Character Palettes
Clipboard Preferences
Columns Manipulation
Compare
Copy Ring
Date And Time
Debugging Palette
Dictionaries
Document Projects
Elec Corrections
Elec Expansions
Emacs
Embrace
Favorites Menu
Function Comments
Hyper Search
International Menus
Latex Accents
Latex Colors
Latex Macros Cycle
Lexers Menu
License Templates
Macros
New Document
Odb Editor
Open Document
Recent Folders
Search Paths
Smarter Source
Speak Text
Special Characters
Support Folders Tool
Synchronizer
Terminal
Text Statistics
Window Groups
Window Lines
Www Dictionary

Example Files

The Examples submenu of the Help menu gives access to all the available example files. See more info in the following document:
Examples

Troubleshooting

Bug Reporting
Debugging

Updating Alpha

Update Alpha Tcl
Version Control

Documenting Alpha

Doc Files
Help Text Marking
Aida Macros
Aida

Extra Resources

Application Support
Consoles
Alpha Server
Shells

Command Line Editors

Alphaed
Alphac
Ralpha
Othereditor

Extensions and Utilities

Aida
Alpha Updater
Diff BOA
Tcl Address Book
Tcl AE
Tcl Apple Script
Tcl Gestalt
Tcl Resource
Tcl X
Tdom
Tnc
Vfs

Advanced Topics

Alpha Tcl Startup
Smarter Source
Xserv
Xserv Guide

Developer Help

Alpha Commands
Alpha Syntax Coloring
Core Variables
Mode Assistant
Compiling Alpha
Commands Status
Commands Changes
See also the Technical Notes and the Questions & Answers.

Useful Links

Alpha's Home Page
Alpha's Bug Tracker
Subversion Repository Browser
Questions and Answers
Technical Notes

Index