| Block |
A part of a document the view treats as one: a paragraph, a table, a formula, a code block, a drawer; blocks fold |
| Chip |
A reference, citation or link shown as the thing it points to (a number, an author and year) rather than as its source |
| Command |
An action with an identifier (latex.insert.figure), a title, a scope and default keys; menus, keys, the palette and scripts run commands |
| Completer |
A source of completions at the cursor: words, commands, labels, citation keys, file paths |
| Drawer |
In Org, a :NAME: … :END: block; in the view, any block folded to its first line away from the cursor |
| Frontend |
One of the two editors: the graphical one (kalem) and the terminal one (kalem -t) |
| Grid |
A table, a CSV file or a BibTeX file drawn with aligned columns; the source shows where the cursor is |
| Known difference |
A place where Kalem deliberately differs from its oracle, recorded with a test |
| Lossless |
Reading a file and writing it back without changes gives the same bytes |
| Mode |
How Kalem treats a document: Org, Markdown, LaTeX, CSV, BibTeX, plain text (with a language), or a folder |
| Oracle |
The reference implementation or test suite a mode is checked against: Emacs for Org, pandoc and TeX for LaTeX |
| Palette |
The list of commands opened with Ctrl+Shift+P (Cmd+Shift+P), which also asks for a command's arguments |
| Plugin |
Compiled Rust run by Kalem as a WebAssembly component with its own memory, limits and permissions: a viewer of files that are not text, or an extension adding commands, events and panels; or a declarative language plugin (Part III) |
| Project |
A folder with a version control directory or a marker file; files, search and recent files are per project |
| Scope |
The types of text a command serves (§11.2 of the design): org, latex, csv, bib, a programming language |
| Source view |
The file as it is, without rendering (Ctrl+/) |
| Text first |
The file on disk is the truth: Kalem renders plain text and edits it in place, with no database, container format or sidecar file of its own |
| Text type |
The type of the text at the cursor: the file's mode, or a source block's language inside Org |
| WebAssembly component |
Compiled code with a typed interface, run in a sandbox with its own memory; the form every Kalem plugin takes |
| When-clause |
A condition on the editor's state (editorMode = org && inTable=) that decides whether a command applies |
| Workspace |
The settings of a folder, in .kalem/settings.toml |