---
name: "Ted"
section: "1x"
platform: "linux"
package: "ted"
version: "2.6-1"
release: "Debian 2.2 (Potato)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Ted/1x"
---

# Ted(1x)

an easy rich text editor

## NAME

Ted - an easy rich text editor

## SYNOPSIS

**Ted** *\[ filename \]*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page briefly documents the program **Ted.** This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has on-line help; see below.

**Ted** is a text processor running under X Windows on Unix/Linux systems. **Ted** uses RTF (rich text format), a document format supported by Microsoft(tm) word processors, and various other applications, mostly (but not exclusively) on the MS-Windows(tm) platform.

**Ted** is designed to be as compatible as possible with MS-Windows(tm) applications.  Every document produced by  **Ted** should, without any loss of formatting or information, be accepted as a legal .rtf file by MS-Word(tm).  Compatibility in the other direction is more difficult to achieve. **Ted** supports most basic text formatting, as supported by the Microsoft applications. Other formatting instructions and meta information are ignored.

*Ted* includes support for in-line bitmap pictures, postscript printing, spell checking, tables, symbols, and more.

A sample application defaults file can be found in /usr/doc/ted/examples/Ted.ad.sample.gz.  This file requires editing to be useful with Debian GNU/Linux, which is why it is not installed by default.

## SEE ALSO

The file /usr/doc/ted/ted/readme.txt.gz or the on-line help available within Ted.

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Chris Waters \<xtifr@debian.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).