1E3(1) General Commands Manual E3(1)
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6 E3 - A mini text editor
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10 e3[ws|em|pi|vi|ne] [filename]
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14 e3 is a complete mini application written fully in assembler, with a
15 code size less than 10000 byte. There is a status & input line, where
16 you can enter filenames, blocknames, find-texts and line numbers. The
17 editor commands are similary the families of Wordstar-like or Emacs or
18 Pico or vi or Nedit editors. For online help press ESC:h in vi mode,
19 else Alt-H. This man page describes Wordstar key bindings only.
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23 ^A Go word left
24 ^C Go page down
26 ^D Go right
28 ^E Go up
30 ^F Go word right
32 ^G Delete current character
34 ^H Delete left character
36 ^I Tabulator
38 ^J Get online help
40 ^KB Set block start marker
42 ^KC Copy current block
44 ^KD Save file and load a new one
46 ^KK Set block end marker
48 ^KQ Abort editing and exit. Confirm with Y or y that your changes
50 are lost.
51 ^KR Insert a file as a new block
53 ^KS Save file and continue editing
55 ^KV Move current block inside file
57 ^KW Save a block into a file
59 ^KX Save file and exit
61 ^KY Delete text a block
63 ^KZ Suspend (simple ^Z in other editor modes)
65 ^L Repeat last ^QF or ^QA
67 ^M Enter new line
69 ^QA Search & Replace (a prompt appears). For options compare ^QF.
71 ^QB Go to block begin
73 ^QC Go to end of file
75 ^QD Go to end of line
77 ^QE Go to top of screen: 1st columne, 1st line
79 ^QF Find a text string (a prompt appears). Valid options are Case
81 sensitive and Backward. You could abort via pressing ^U . This
82 options are equal to e3em, e3pi, e3ne, but their abort keys are
83 ^G and ^C.
84 ^QG Delete character under cursor
86 ^QG Delete character left of cursor
88 ^QH,^Q(Del)
90 Delete up to line begin
91 ^QI Go to line number (prompt appears)
93 ^QK Go to block end
95 ^QR Go to file begin
97 ^QS Go to line begin
99 ^QV Go to last postion of find
101 ^QW Go to previous word
103 ^QX Go to bottom of window (last line, end of line)
105 ^QY Delete to line end
107 ^QZ Go to next word
109 ^R Go page up
111 ^S Go left
113 ^T Delete to next word
115 ^U Undo the last operation. Also abort input in status line (this
117 is used for ^QI,^QF,^KR,^KW etc.)
118 ^V Toggle insert mode
120 ^W Scroll up
122 ^X Go down
124 ^Y Delete current line
126 ^Z Scroll down
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132 e3 has an UNDO mode starting in v2.2. There is no predefined UNDO level
133 count. You can expect to UNDO at least one last insert-, delete-, over‐
134 write- or sed_pipe-operation, but in most cases there are lots of UNDO
135 stages available. e3 has a fixed size undo buffer and will use an
136 external helper file if some deleted data is bigger sized than the undo
137 buffer. This buffer is organized as a ring, overwriting older UNDO
138 information if neccessary. So one never can say exactly how many UNDO
139 operations are possible. For using the UNDO press one of:
140 ^U in Wordstar mode
142 ^QU in Pico mode
144 ^_ in Emacs mode
146 u in vi command mode
148 ^U in Nedit mode
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153 e3 has an arithmetic calculator built in for some simple arithmetic
154 calculations inside your text. Place cursor at begin of the task i.e.
155 something like: -3.002*-(2--3)= and press one of:
156 ^KN in Wordstar mode
158 ^QC in Pico mode
160 ^X^N in Emacs mode
162 # in vi command mode
164 ^K in Nedit mode
166 This will insert the result into text. Use the values between
168 -999999999999.999999 ... 999999999999.999999 with up to 6 decimal dig‐
169 its and the operators +-*/ and parenthesis ( ). Also available are p
170 for constant PI and r for accessing the result of last calculation
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175 You can switch to other editor mode by pressing one of:
176 ^KM in Wordstar mode
178 ^QM in Pico mode
180 altX in Emacs mode
182 <ESC>; in vi command mode
184 ^E in Nedit mode
186 e3 will set a prompt SET MODE . Now enter one of e3ws, e3em, e3pi,
188 e3vi, e3ne for setting Wordstar-like or Emacs or Pico or vi or Nedit
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195 e3 accepts a filename for text editing. Switch the editor mode depend‐
196 ing of the binary name, one of e3ws, e3em, e3pi, e3vi, e3ne
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201 e3 is an assembled executable for Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD,
202 BeOS(tm), QNX(tm). e3ws, e3em, e3pi, e3vi, e3ne are symbolic
203 links to e3.
204 e3.exe is an assembled executable for 32 bit Win versions like
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207 e3c is a 'C' compiled executable for some other platforms, optional
209 built, supporting WS key bindings only.
210 e3arm is a new experimental (alpha code quality) assembled executable
212 for ARM Linux, optional built (identical e3, but no arithmetics
213 and no UNDO available).
214 e3.hlp help text file (for e3c only)
216 e3.res error message text file (for e3c only)
218 e3-16 e3-16, e3-16.com, e3-16e.exe are special bonus files for 16 bit
220 operating systems ELKS (==Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset) and
221 DOS, supporting WS key bindings only.
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225 e3 is Copyright (c) 2000,01,02,03 Albrecht Kleine
226 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
228 under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
229 Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
230 option) any later version.
231 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
233 WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MER‐
234 CHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
235 Public License for more details.
236 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
238 with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
239 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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243 There probably are some, but I don't know what they are yet.
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