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LE(1) General Commands Manual LE(1) NAME le - full screen text editor SYNOPSIS le [options] filename DESCRIPTION le is a text editor which offers wide range of capabilities with a simple interface. It has a pull down menu and a simple help system to get started. See KEYS section below to learn about key combinations. Among its features there are: various operations with stream and rectangu- lar blocks, search and replace with full regular expressions, text format- ting, undelete/uninsert, hex editing, tunable key sequences, tunable col- ors, tunable syntax highlighting. The editor currently supports only one loaded file at a time. KEYS Here are some starting hints: F10 or C-n menu F1 help C-x exit (cancel) Arrows navigate In the editor the following key description is used: Key1-Key2 simultaneous key1 and key2 press Key1+Key2 sequential keys press Key1 | Key2 press Key1 OR Key2 ^Key Ctrl-Key ~Key Shift-Key ^~Key Ctrl-Shift-Key | Alt-Key Some of ^Fx, ~Fx, ^~Fx can be typed as ESC+Fx. The rest of key combinations can be seen in help, in menu and in the key- board map (default one can be seen with le --dump-keymap). There is support for block filtering through an external program, a command output read-in, writing a block through a command. To read or write block from/to a command, use F4+R or F4+W and file name of the following format: ``|command args''. Filtering is achieved by F4+| followed by command name. STATUS LINE On the status line you can see current line, column, the size of loaded file, the code of character under cursor, several one letter flags, file name, offset in bytes from the file beginning and percent position in the file. One letters flags are: * - modified; R - Russian keyboard (works only on certain terminals); I - insert, O - overstrike; A - autoindent; D - dos style line terminators (CR NL); U - undelete possible, u - uninsert possi- ble; B - column block mode. TEXT PROTECTION To prevent changes loss on crash, le regularly dumps the editing text, if changed, to ~/.le/tmp/FILENAME.PID , where FILENAME is the file name with slashes converted to underlines; PID is the process id of the editor process. When the editor gets a fatal signal, it also dumps the text, to ~/.le/tmp/DUMP-SIG-FILENAME.PID , where SIG is the signal number. OPTIONS -r, --read-only Work as viewer, don't allow changes. If your system supports mmap(2), it will be used to get file contents to memory. -h, --hex-mode Start in hex mode --mmap Use mmap(2) to load file read-only. Can be used to view very large files or even devices. This implies -h. --mmap-rw Use mmap(2) to load file read-write in MAP_SHARED mode. Use with caution -- the changes go directly to file or disk, no undo. In this mode only replace can be used, but it allows editing of very large files or even devices. This implies -h. --multibyte Force multibyte mode on. Multibyte mode is usually enabled automati- cally as needed. --no-multibyte Force multibyte mode off, even if it was automatically determined that it should be on. -b, --black-white Start in black & white mode -c, --color Start in color mode --dump-keymap Dump default keymap to stdout and exit --dump-colors Dump default color map to stdout and exit --version Print the version of LE and exit --help Print short description of options and exit ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES The following environment variables are processed by le: HOME Used for tilde (`~') expansion. LE_DEFAULT_EOL The default EOL marker. It can be set to NL (\n), CRNL (\r\n) or CR (\r). Also it can be set to any other 1-2 character string inter- preted literally. TERM, LINES, COLUMNS These variables are used by curses library for full-screen output. FILES DATADIR/colors ~/.le/colors DATADIR/colors-$TERM ~/.le/colors-$TERM Color palette description. Those files are sequentially read and color definitions in later files have higher precision. ~/.le/keymap-$TERM DATADIR/keymap-$TERM ~/.le/keymap DATADIR/keymap Key map descriptions. Only the first existing file is read. ~/.le/term-$TERM DATADIR/term-$TERM Terminal specific options. Only the first existing file is read. Use Options->Terminal menu to tune the options. ./.le.ini ~/.le/le.ini DATADIR/le.ini Options. Only the first existing file is read. Use menu Options to tune these. .le.syntax ~/.le/syntax DATADIR/syntax Syntax highlighting rules. Only the first existing file is read. There is no default built-in in the editor, so if those files are not present you won't see any syntax highlighting. ~/.le/mainmenu DATADIR/mainmenu Main editor menu. It has simple text format. Only the first existing file is read. ~/.le/history Various histories are saved here. Do not edit by hand. DATADIR is determined at compile time by configure script (pkgdatadir vari- able). By default it has value /usr/local/share/le. AUTHOR The LE editor was written by Alexander V. Lukyanov <lav@yars.free.net>. 28 Sep 2000 LE(1)
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