1XEDIT(1) General Commands Manual XEDIT(1)
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6 xedit - simple text editor for X
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9 xedit [ -toolkitoption ... ] [ filename ... ]
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12 Xedit provides a window consisting of the following four areas:
13 Commands Section A set of commands that allow you to exit
15 xedit, save the file, or load a new file into
16 the edit window.
17 Message Window Displays xedit messages. In addition, this
19 window can be also used as a scratch pad.
20 Filename Display Displays the name of the file currently being
22 edited, and whether this file is Read-Write or
23 Read Only.
24 Edit Window Displays the text of the file that you are
26 editing or creating.
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29 Xedit accepts all of the standard X Toolkit command line options (see
30 X(7)). The order of the command line options is not important.
31 filename
33 Specifies the file(s) that are to be loaded during start-up.
34 This is the file which will be edited. If a file is not speci‐
35 fied, xedit lets you load files or create new files after it
36 has started up.
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39 The Athena Text widget is used for the three sections of this applica‐
40 tion that allow text input. The characters typed will go to the Text
41 widget that has the input focus, or the Text widget that the pointer
42 cursor is currently over.
43 The following keystroke combinations are defined:
45 Ctrl-a Beginning Of Line
48 Meta-b Backward Word
49 Ctrl-b Backward Character
50 Meta-f Forward Word
51 Ctrl-d Delete Next Character
52 Meta-i Insert File
53 Ctrl-e End Of Line
54 Meta-k Kill To End Of Paragraph
55 Ctrl-f Forward Character
56 Meta-q Form Paragraph
57 Ctrl-g Keyboard Reset
58 Meta-v Previous Page
59 Ctrl-h Delete Previous Character
60 Meta-y Insert Current Selection
61 Ctrl-j Newline And Indent
62 Meta-z Scroll One Line Down
63 Ctrl-k Kill To End Of Line
64 Meta-d Delete Next Word
65 Ctrl-l Redraw Display
66 Meta-D Kill Word
68 Ctrl-m Newline
69 Meta-h Delete Previous Word
70 Ctrl-n Next Line
71 Meta-H Backward Kill Word
72 Ctrl-o Newline And Backup
73 Meta-< Beginning Of File
74 Ctrl-p Previous Line
75 Meta-> End Of File
76 Ctrl-r Search/Replace Backward
77 Meta-] Forward Paragraph
78 Ctrl-s Search/Replace Forward
79 Meta-[ Backward Paragraph
80 Ctrl-t Transpose Characters
81 Ctrl-u [number] Multiply by 4 or number
82 Meta-Delete Delete Previous Word
83 Ctrl-v Next Page
84 Meta-Shift Delete Kill Previous Word
85 Ctrl-w Kill Selection
86 Meta-Backspace Delete Previous Word
87 Ctrl-y Unkill
88 Meta-Shift Backspace Kill Previous Word
89 Ctrl-z Scroll One Line Up
90 Meta-z Scroll One Line Down
91 Ctrl-_ Undo
92 Escape Line Edit Mode
93 In addition, the pointer may be used to cut and paste text:
95 Button 1 Down Start Selection
97 Button 1 Motion Adjust Selection
98 Button 1 Up End Selection (cut)
99 Button 2 Down Insert Current Selection (paste)
101 Button 3 Down Extend Current Selection
103 Button 3 Motion Adjust Selection
104 Button 3 Up End Selection (cut)
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109 Line edit mode enables several shortcut commands for searching and
110 replacing text in a xedit buffer. Line edit mode commands have the
111 format:
112 [line-number[,line-number]]command[parameters]
114 Line number may be specified as:
116 . The current text line.
118 $ The last line of the file.
120 number The literal line number.
122 - or ^ The previous line. Equivalent to -1.
124 -number or ^number
126 The current line minus number.
127 + The next line. Equivalent to +1.
129 +number The current line plus number.
131 , or % From the first to the last line. Equivalent to 1,$.
133 ; From the current to the last line. Equivalent to .,$.
135 Command may be specified as:
138 s Substitute text in the specified lines.
140 /re/ Search forward for the regular expression pattern re.
142 ?re? Search backward for the regular expression pattern re.
144 Parameters may be specified as:
147 /re/ Works as a parameter to i or as a command.
149 /re/text/
151 Search forward for re and substitute by text.
152 Options may follow or be parameters, known values are:
155 i Case insensitive search.
157 g Global match when replacing text. Unless specified, only the
159 nth, that defaults to 1, match will be replaced.
160 c Confirm before replacing text.
162 number Replace only the occurrence referenced by number.
164 Commands accept some variations, examples:
166 /pattern/i
167 i/pattern/
168 i/pattern
169 Search forward for pattern.
170 ,sc/pattern/text
172 ,sc/pattern/text/
173 ,s/pattern/text/c
174 Search the entire buffer and ask confirmation to replace pattern with
175 text.
176 ,s/pattern/text/number
178 Replace the match number in the text line. If not specified, defaults
179 to the first occurrence.
180 When searching for text, type <Return> to go to the next match. When
183 interactively replacing text, type y or Y to accept the change, and n
184 or N to ignore it and go to the next match.
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188 Quit Quits the current editing session. If any changes have not been
189 saved, xedit displays a warning message, allowing the user to
190 save them.
191 Save If file backups are enabled (see RESOURCES, below) xedit stores
193 a copy of the original, unedited file in <prefix>file<suffix>,
194 then overwrites the file with the contents of the edit window.
195 The filename is retrieved from the Text widget directly to the
196 right of the Load button.
197 Load Loads the file named in the text widget immediately to the
199 right of the this button and displays it in the Edit window.
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202 For xedit the available resources are:
203 tagsName (Class TagsName)
205 Specifies the name of the tags file to search when loading a
206 new file. Default value is tags.
207 loadTags (Class LoadTags)
209 Boolean value to enable or disabling searching for tags files.
210 Default is True.
211 enableBackups (Class EnableBackups)
213 Specifies that, when edits made to an existing file are saved,
214 xedit is to copy the original version of that file to <pre‐
215 fix>file<suffix> before it saves the changes. The default
216 value for this resource is ``on,'' stating that backups should
217 be created.
218 backupNamePrefix (Class BackupNamePrefix)
220 Specifies a string that is to be prepended to the backup file‐
221 name. The default is that no string shall be prepended.
222 backupNameSuffix (Class BackupNameSuffix)
224 Specifies a string that is to be appended to the backup file‐
225 name. The default is to use ``~'' as the suffix.
226 positionFormat (Class Format)
228 Specifies a format string used to display the cursor position.
229 This string uses printf(3) like notation, where %l prints the
230 line number, %c prints the column number, %p prints the insert
231 position offset, and %s prints the current file size. It is
232 also allowed to specify field sizes, with the notation
233 %-?[0-9]+ . The default format string is ``L%l'', which shows
234 the character ``L'' followed by the line number.
235 hints (Class Hints)
237 Specifies a list of strings, separated by new lines, that will
238 be displayed in the bc_label window.
239 hintsInterval (Class Interval)
241 Specifies the interval in seconds, which the hint string in the
242 bc_label window will be changed.
243 changedBitmap (Class Bitmap)
245 Specifies the name of the Bitmap that will be displayed in the
246 fileMenu, when the file being edited is changed.
247 autoReplace (Class Replace)
249 This resource is useful to automatically correct common mis‐
250 spelling errors, but can also be used to create simple macros.
251 The format is {non-blanks}{blanks}[{string}]. Fields are sepa‐
252 rated by newlines. Example of use:
253 nto not\n\
255 /macro some long string with \\\n newlines \\\n
256 Will automatically replace the word nto by not, and /macro by
258 some long string with
259 newlines when you type that words.
260 ispell.dictionaries (Class ispell.Dictionary)
262 Specifies a list of dictionary names, separated by spaces,
263 available to the ispell program. The default value is "american
264 americamed+ english".
265 ispell.dictionary (Class ispell.Dictionary)
267 Specifies the default dictionary to use.
268 ispell*<DICTIONARY>.wordChars (Class ispell*Chars)
270 Specifies a set of characters that can be part of a legal word.
271 The <DICTIONARY> field is one of the dictionaries specified in
272 the dictionaries resource.
273 ispell.ispellCommand (Class ispell.CommandLine)
275 The path to the ispell program, and possibly, additional argu‐
276 ments. You don't need to specify the ``-w'' option, neither the
277 ``-a'' option. Refer to the ispell(1) manpage for more infor‐
278 mation on ispell options.
279 ispell.formatting (Class ispell.TextFormat)
281 Specifies which text formatting to use while spell checking the
282 file. The available formats are text and html.
283 ispell*text.skipLines (Class ispell*text.Skip)
285 Lines starting with one of the characters in this string will
286 not be spell checked. This resource is only used in text mode.
287 ispell.terseMode (Class ispell.Terse)
289 When enabled, runs ispell in terse mode, not asking user inter‐
290 action for words generated through compound formation (when
291 using the ispell ``-C'' option), or words generated through
292 affix removal. The default value is False.
293 ispell.lookCommand (Class ispell.CommandLine)
295 The path to the program to search for alternate words, and pos‐
296 sibly, additional arguments. The default program used is
297 /usr/bin/egrep.
298 ispell.wordsFile (Class ispell.Words)
300 The path to the file[s] to search for alternate words. The
301 default file is /usr/share/dict/words.
302 ispell.guessLabel (Class ispell.Status)
304 String displayed in the ispell status bar when ispell returns a
305 guess list of one or more words. The default value is Guess.
306 ispell.missLabel (Class ispell.Status)
308 String displayed in the ispell status bar when ispell returns a
309 list of one or more words to match a misspelled one. The
310 default value is Miss.
311 ispell.rootLabel (Class ispell.Status)
313 String displayed in the ispell status bar when the word is not
314 in the dictionary, but it can be formed through a root one. The
315 default value is Root:, and is followed by a space and the root
316 word.
317 ispell.noneLabel (Class ispell.Status)
319 String displayed in the ispell status bar when there is no near
320 misses. The default value is None.
321 ispell.compoundLabel (Class ispell.Status)
323 String displayed in the ispell status bar when the word being
324 checked is formed by concatenation of two words. The default
325 value is Compound.
326 ispell.okLabel (Class ispell.Status)
328 String displayed in the ispell status bar when the checked word
329 is in the dictionary. This string is only displayed when using
330 the check button in the xedit ispell interface. The default
331 value is Ok.
332 ispell.eofLabel (Class ispell.Status)
334 The string displayed in the ispell status bar when the end of
335 the file is reached. The default value is End Of File.
336 ispell.repeatLabel (Class ispell.Status)
338 The string displayed in the ispell status bar when two identi‐
339 cal words are found together in the file. The default value is
340 Repeat.
341 ispell.lookLabel (Class ispell.Status)
343 The string displayed in the ispell status bar after displaying
344 the results of the Look command. If no results are found, the
345 value of the ispell.noneLabel resource is shown.
346 ispell.workingLabel (Class ispell.Status)
348 The string displayed in the ispell status bar while xedit is
349 communicating with ispell. The default value is ....
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352 In order to specify resources, it is useful to know the hierarchy of
353 the widgets which compose xedit. In the notation below, indentation
354 indicates hierarchical structure. The widget class name is given
355 first, followed by the widget instance name.
356 Xedit xedit
358 Paned paned
359 Paned buttons
360 Command quit
361 Command save
362 Command load
363 Text filename
364 Label bc_label
365 Text messageWindow
366 Label labelWindow
367 Text editWindow
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371 DISPLAY to get the default host and display number.
372 XENVIRONMENT to get the name of a resource file that overrides
374 the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER
375 property.
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378 /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/Xedit
379 specifies required resources
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382 X(7), xrdb(1), Athena Widget Set
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385 Xedit is not a replacement to Emacs.
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388 Copyright 1988, Digital Equipment Corporation.
389 Copyright 1989, X Consortium
390 Copyright 1998, The XFree86 Project
391 See X(7) for a full statement of rights and permissions.
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394 Chris D. Peterson, MIT X Consortium
395 Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade, The XFree86 Project
396X Version 11 xedit 1.2.2 XEDIT(1)