1NE(1) General Commands Manual NE(1)
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6 ne - A nice editor
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9 ne [options] files
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11 Options:
12 [--help] [--] [+[N[,M]]] [--binary] [--read-only] [--utf8]
13 [--no-utf8] [--ansi] [--no-ansi] [--no-config] [--no-syntax]
14 [--prefs ext] [--keys key-configuration-file] [--menus menu-con‐
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19 ne is a free text editor that runs on (hopefully almost) any UN*X ma‐
20 chine. ne is easy to use for the beginner, but powerful and fully con‐
21 figurable for the wizard, and most sparing in its resource usage.
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23 This documentation is incomplete. The Texinfo/info/HTML/PDF documenta‐
24 tion is the authoritative source (try info ne or info -f ne).
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26 OPTIONS
27 --help Prints a help message.
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29 -- Next token is a filename. May appear more than once.
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31 +[N[,M]]
32 Moves to the last or N-th line, first or M-th column of the next
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37 Load the next named file in binary mode. May appear more than
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41 Load the next file in read-only mode. May appear more than
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44 --utf8 Use UTF-8 I/O.
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49 --ansi Use the built-in ANSI sequences.
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52 Never use the built-in ANSI sequences.
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54 --no-config
55 Skip reading the menu and keyboard configuration files.
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57 --no-syntax
58 Disable syntax-highlighting support.
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60 --prefs ext
61 Set autoprefs for the provided extension before loading the
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64 --keys key-configuration-file
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67 --menus menu-configuration-file
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73 USAGE
74 Start ne, then use escape, escape-escape or F1 to access the menus.
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76 BUGS
77 Please send bug reports to Sebastiano Vigna <vigna@di.unimi.it> or Todd
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80 AUTHORS
81 ne was originally written by Sebastiano Vigna. Todd M. Lewis added sev‐
82 eral new features. Daniele Filaretti helped with syntax highlighting.
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86ne by Sebastiano Vigna and Todd M. Lewis NE(1)