User Guide

Everything you need to use the Modular Text Editor day to day.

• Getting started — the interface at a glance.
• Features
  • Syntax colouring — language-aware colours.
  • Code folding — collapse and expand regions.
  • Minimap — a bird's-eye view of the whole file.
  • Command palette — run any command by typing.
  • Multi-caret editing — edit in many places at once.
  • Split view — edit several documents side by side.
  • Compare / Diff — see what changed between two files.
  • File-change watching — stay in sync with disk.
  • Document statistics — live counts and reading time.
• Preferences — configure the editor and its plugins.

Many capabilities are delivered as plugins — see the Plugins section for those.