544 lines
17 KiB
Groff
544 lines
17 KiB
Groff
.\"
|
|
.\"
|
|
.\" To format this reference page, use the command:
|
|
.\"
|
|
.\" nroff -man ee.1
|
|
.\"
|
|
.\" $Header: /home/hugh/sources/old_ae/RCS/ee.1,v 1.22 2001/12/16 04:49:27 hugh Exp $
|
|
.\"
|
|
.\"
|
|
.TH ee 1 "" "" ""
|
|
.SH NAME
|
|
ee \- easy editor
|
|
.SH SYNOPSIS
|
|
.nf
|
|
ee [-e] [-i] [-h] [+#] [\fIfile\fR ...]
|
|
ree [-e] [-i] [-h] [+#] [\fIfile\fR ...]
|
|
.ta
|
|
.fi
|
|
.ad b
|
|
.SH DESCRIPTION
|
|
The command
|
|
.I ee
|
|
is a simple screen oriented text editor. It is always in text insertion
|
|
mode unless there is a prompt at the bottom of the terminal, or a
|
|
menu present (in a box in the middle of the terminal). The command
|
|
.I ree
|
|
is the same as
|
|
.I ee,
|
|
but restricted to editing the named
|
|
file (no file operations, or shell escapes are allowed).
|
|
.PP
|
|
An editor with similar user-friendly qualities but more features is available
|
|
and is called
|
|
.I aee.
|
|
.PP
|
|
For
|
|
.I ee
|
|
to work properly, the environment variable
|
|
.SM TERM
|
|
must be set to indicate the type of terminal being used. For
|
|
example, for an
|
|
.SM HP 700/92
|
|
terminal, the
|
|
.SM TERM
|
|
variable should be set to "70092". See your System Administrator if
|
|
you need more information.
|
|
.\"
|
|
.\" options
|
|
.\"
|
|
.SS Options
|
|
The following options are available from the command line:
|
|
.PP
|
|
.TP 4
|
|
.B -e
|
|
Turns off expansion of tab character to spaces.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B -i
|
|
Turns off display of information window at top of terminal.
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B -h
|
|
Turns off highlighting of borders of windows and menus (improves
|
|
performance on some terminals).
|
|
.TP
|
|
.B +#
|
|
Moves the cursor to line '#' at startup.
|
|
.br
|
|
.\"
|
|
.\" control keys
|
|
.\"
|
|
.SS "Control keys"
|
|
To do anything other than insert text, the user must use the control
|
|
keys (the
|
|
.B Control
|
|
key, represented by a "^", pressed in conjunction with an
|
|
alphabetic key, e.g., ^a) and function keys available on the keyboard
|
|
(such as
|
|
.BR "Next Page" ", " "Prev Page" ,
|
|
arrow keys, etc.).
|
|
.PP
|
|
Since not all terminals have function keys,
|
|
.I ee
|
|
has the basic cursor movement functions assigned to control keys as
|
|
well as more intuitive keys on the keyboard when available. For
|
|
instance, to move the cursor up, the user can use the up arrow key,
|
|
or
|
|
.BR ^u .
|
|
.RS 4
|
|
.nf
|
|
.ta 1.4i
|
|
.sp
|
|
^a Prompt for the decimal value of a character to insert.
|
|
^b Move to the bottom of the text.
|
|
^c Get the prompt for a command.
|
|
^d Move the cursor down.
|
|
^e Prompt for the string to search for.
|
|
^f Undelete the last deleted character.
|
|
^g Move to the beginning of the line.
|
|
^h Backspace.
|
|
^i Tab.
|
|
^j Insert a newline.
|
|
^k Delete the character the cursor is sitting on.
|
|
^l Move the cursor left.
|
|
^m Insert a newline.
|
|
^n Move to the next page.
|
|
^o Move to the end of the line.
|
|
^p Move to the previous page.
|
|
^r Move the cursor to the right.
|
|
^t Move to the top of the text.
|
|
^u Move the cursor up.
|
|
^v Undelete the last deleted word.
|
|
^w Delete the word beginning at the cursor position.
|
|
^x Search.
|
|
^y Delete from the cursor position to the end of line.
|
|
^z Undelete the last deleted line.
|
|
^[ (ESC) Pop up menu.
|
|
.ta
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
.sp
|
|
.SS "EMACS keys mode"
|
|
.PP
|
|
Since many shells provide an Emacs mode (for cursor movement and other editing
|
|
operations), some bindings that may be more useful for people familiar with
|
|
those bindings have been provided. These are accessible via the
|
|
.B settings
|
|
menu, or via the initialization file (see below). The mappings are as follows:
|
|
.RS
|
|
.nf
|
|
.ta 1.4i
|
|
^a Move to the beginning of the line.
|
|
^b Back 1 character.
|
|
^c Command prompt.
|
|
^d Delete character the cursor is sitting on.
|
|
^e End of line.
|
|
^f Forward 1 character.
|
|
^g Go back 1 page.
|
|
^h Backspace.
|
|
^i Tab.
|
|
^j Undelete last deleted character.
|
|
^k Delete line.
|
|
^l Undelete last deleted line.
|
|
^m Insert a newline.
|
|
^n Move to the next line.
|
|
^o Prompt for the decimal value of a character to insert.
|
|
^p Previous line.
|
|
^r Restore last deleted word.
|
|
^t Move to the top of the text.
|
|
^u Move to the bottom of the text.
|
|
^v Move to the next page.
|
|
^w Delete the word beginning at the cursor position.
|
|
^y Prompt for the string to search for.
|
|
^z Next word.
|
|
^[ (ESC) Pop up menu.
|
|
.ta
|
|
.fi
|
|
.RE
|
|
.sp
|
|
.\"
|
|
.\" function keys
|
|
.\"
|
|
.SS "Function Keys"
|
|
.RS 4
|
|
.IP "\fBNext Page\fR"
|
|
Move to the next page.
|
|
.IP "\fBPrev Page\fR"
|
|
Move to the previous page.
|
|
.IP "\fBDelete Char\fR"
|
|
Delete the character the cursor is on.
|
|
.IP "\fBDelete Line\fR"
|
|
Delete from the cursor to the end of line.
|
|
.IP "\fBInsert line\fR"
|
|
Insert a newline at the cursor position.
|
|
.IP "\fBArrow keys\fR"
|
|
Move the cursor in the direction indicated.
|
|
.RE
|
|
.\"
|
|
.\" commands
|
|
.\"
|
|
.SS Commands
|
|
.PP
|
|
Some operations require more information than a single keystroke can
|
|
provide. For the most basic operations, there is a menu that can be
|
|
obtained by pressing the
|
|
.SM \fBESC\fR
|
|
key. The same operations, and more can be performed by obtaining the
|
|
command prompt (^c) and typing in one of the commands below.
|
|
.RS 4
|
|
.IP "!\fBcmd\fR"
|
|
Execute \fBcmd\fR in a shell.
|
|
.IP "\fB0-9\fR"
|
|
Move to the line indicated.
|
|
.IP "\fBcase\fR"
|
|
Make searches case sensitive.
|
|
.IP "\fBcharacter\fR"
|
|
Display the ascii value of the character at the cursor.
|
|
.IP "\fBexit\fR"
|
|
Save the edited text, and leave the editor.
|
|
.IP "\fBexpand\fR"
|
|
Expand tabs to spaces.
|
|
.IP "\fBfile\fR"
|
|
Print the name of the file.
|
|
.IP "\fBhelp\fR"
|
|
Display help screen.
|
|
.IP "\fBline\fR"
|
|
Display the current line number.
|
|
.IP "\fBnocase\fR
|
|
Make searches insensitive to case (the default).
|
|
.IP "\fBnoexpand\fR"
|
|
Don't expand tab to spaces when the TAB key is pressed.
|
|
.IP "\fBquit\fR"
|
|
Leave the editor without saving changes.
|
|
.IP "\fBread\fR \fIfile\fR"
|
|
Read the named \fIfile\fR.
|
|
.IP "\fBwrite\fR \fIfile\fR"
|
|
Write the text to the named \fIfile\fR.
|
|
.RE
|
|
.\"
|
|
.\" menu operations
|
|
.\"
|
|
.SS "Menu Operations"
|
|
.PP
|
|
Pop-up menus can be obtained by pressing the
|
|
.B escape
|
|
key (or
|
|
.B ^[
|
|
if no
|
|
.B escape
|
|
key is present). When in the menu, the escape key can be
|
|
used to leave the menu without performing any operations. Use the up and
|
|
down arrow keys, or
|
|
.B ^u
|
|
for moving up and
|
|
.B ^d
|
|
for moving down to move to the desired items in the menu, then press
|
|
.B return
|
|
to perform the indicated task.
|
|
.PP
|
|
To the left of each menu item is a letter, which if the corresponding
|
|
letter is pressed on the keyboard selects that menu entry.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The main menu in \fIee\fR is as follows:
|
|
.RS 4
|
|
.IP "\fBleave editor\fR"
|
|
If changes have been made, the user will get a menu prompting whether or
|
|
not the changes should be saved.
|
|
.IP "\fBhelp\fR"
|
|
Displays a help screen, with all of the keyboard operations and commands.
|
|
.IP "\fBfile operations\fR"
|
|
Pops up a menu for selecting whether to read a file, write to a file, or
|
|
save the current contents of the editor, as well as send the contents of
|
|
the editor to a print command (see the section \fBInitializing ee from a
|
|
file\fR).
|
|
.IP "\fBredraw screen\fR"
|
|
Provides a means to repaint the screen if the screen has been corrupted.
|
|
.IP "\fBsettings\fR"
|
|
Shows the current values of the operating modes, and right margin. By
|
|
pressing return when the cursor is on a particular item, the value can be
|
|
changed. To leave this menu, press the \fBescape\fR key. (See \fBModes\fR
|
|
below.)
|
|
.IP "\fBsearch\fR"
|
|
.br
|
|
Pops up a menu in which the user may choose to enter a string to search
|
|
for, or search for a string already entered.
|
|
.IP "\fBmiscellaneous\fR"
|
|
Pops up a menu that allows the user to format the current paragraph,
|
|
execute a shell command, or check the spelling of the text in the editor.
|
|
.RE
|
|
.\"
|
|
.\" paragraph formatting
|
|
.\"
|
|
.SS "Paragraph Formatting"
|
|
.PP
|
|
Paragraphs are defined for \fIee\fR by a block of text bounded by:
|
|
.sp
|
|
.RS 8
|
|
.IP \(bu
|
|
Begin or end of file.
|
|
.IP \(bu
|
|
Line with no characters, or only spaces and/or tabs.
|
|
.IP \(bu
|
|
Line starting with a period ('.') or right angle bracket ('>').
|
|
.RE
|
|
.PP
|
|
A paragraph may be formatted two ways: explicitly by choosing the
|
|
\fBformat paragraph\fR menu item, or by setting \fIee\fR to automatically
|
|
format paragraphs. The automatic mode may be set via a menu, or via the
|
|
initialization file.
|
|
.PP
|
|
There are three states for text operation in \fIee\fR: free-form, margins,
|
|
and automatic formatting.
|
|
.PP
|
|
"Free-form" is best used for things like programming. There are no
|
|
restrictions on the length of lines, and no formatting takes place.
|
|
.PP
|
|
"Margins" allows the user to type in text without having to worry about going
|
|
beyond the right margin (the right margin may be set in the \fBsettings\fR
|
|
menu, the default is for the margin to be the right edge of the
|
|
terminal). This is the mode that allows the \fBformat paragraph\fR menu
|
|
item to work.
|
|
.PP
|
|
"Automatic formatting" provides word-processor-like behavior. The user
|
|
may type in text, while \fIee\fR will make sure the entire paragraph fits
|
|
within the width of the terminal every time the user inserts a space after
|
|
typing or deleting text. Margin observation must also be enabled in order for
|
|
automatic formatting to occur.
|
|
.\"
|
|
.\" modes
|
|
.\"
|
|
.SS Modes
|
|
.PP
|
|
Although ee is a 'modeless' editor (it is in text insertion mode all the
|
|
time), there are modes in some of the things it does. These include:
|
|
.RS 4
|
|
.IP "\fBtab expansion\fR"
|
|
Tabs may be inserted as a single tab character, or replaced with spaces.
|
|
.IP "\fBcase sensitivity\fR"
|
|
The search operation can be sensitive to whether characters are upper- or
|
|
lower-case, or ignore case completely.
|
|
.IP "\fBmargins observed\fR"
|
|
Lines can either be truncated at the right margin, or extend on forever.
|
|
.IP "\fBauto paragraph formatting\fR"
|
|
While typing in text, the editor can try to keep it looking reasonably well
|
|
within the width of the screen.
|
|
.IP "\fBeightbit characters\fR"
|
|
Toggles whether eight bit characters are displayed as their value in angle
|
|
brackets (e.g. "<220>") or as a character.
|
|
.IP "\fBinfo window\fR"
|
|
A window showing the keyboard operations that can be performed can be
|
|
displayed or not.
|
|
.IP "\fBemacs keys\fR"
|
|
Control keys may be given bindings similar to emacs, or not.
|
|
.IP "\f16 bit characters\fR"
|
|
Toggles whether sixteen bit characters are handled as one 16-bit quantities or
|
|
two 8-bit quantities. This works primarily with the Chinese Big 5 code set.
|
|
.RE
|
|
.PP
|
|
You may set these modes via the initialization file (see below), or with a
|
|
menu (see above).
|
|
.\"
|
|
.\" spell checking
|
|
.\"
|
|
.SS "Spell Checking"
|
|
.PP
|
|
There are two ways to have the spelling in the text checked from \fIee\fR.
|
|
One is by the traditional \fIspell\fR(1) command, the other is with the
|
|
optional \fIispell\fR(1) command.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Using \fIspell\fR, the words that are not recognized will be placed at the top
|
|
of the file. For the \fIispell\fR option, the file is written to disk,
|
|
then \fIispell\fR run on the file, and the file read back in once
|
|
\fIispell\fR has completed making changes to the file.
|
|
.\"
|
|
.\" printing
|
|
.\"
|
|
.SS "Printing the contents of the editor"
|
|
.PP
|
|
The user may select a menu item which prints the contents of the editor.
|
|
.I ee
|
|
pipes the text in the editor to the command specified by the
|
|
initialization command
|
|
.B printcommand
|
|
(see the section
|
|
.B Initializing ee from a file
|
|
below). The default is to send the contents to "lp".
|
|
.PP
|
|
Whatever the user assigns to
|
|
.B printcommand
|
|
must take input from
|
|
standard input. See your system administrator for more details.
|
|
.\"
|
|
.\" shell operations
|
|
.\"
|
|
.SS "Shell operations"
|
|
.PP
|
|
Shell commands can be executed from within
|
|
.I ee
|
|
by selecting the
|
|
.B shell command
|
|
item in the
|
|
.B miscellaneous
|
|
menu, or by placing an exclamation mark ("!") before the command to
|
|
execute at the
|
|
.B command:
|
|
prompt. Additionally, the user may direct the contents of the edit buffer
|
|
out to a shell operation (via a pipe) by using the left angle bracket
|
|
(">"), followed by a "!" and the shell command to execute. The output of
|
|
a shell operation can also be directed into the edit buffer by using a
|
|
right angle bracket ("<") before the exclamation mark. These can even be
|
|
used together to send output to a shell operation and read back the
|
|
results into the editor. So, if the editor contained a list of words
|
|
to be sorted, they could be sorted by typing the following at the command
|
|
prompt:
|
|
.RS 4
|
|
.sp
|
|
><!sort
|
|
.sp
|
|
.RE
|
|
This would send the contents of the editor to be piped into the
|
|
.I sort
|
|
utility and the result would be placed into the edit buffer at the current
|
|
cursor location. The old information would have to be deleted by the user.
|
|
.\"
|
|
.\" initializing ee from a file
|
|
.\"
|
|
.SS "Initializing ee from a file"
|
|
.PP
|
|
Since different users have different preferences, \fIee\fR allows some
|
|
slight configurability. There are three possible locations for an
|
|
initialization file for ee: the file \fI/usr/share/misc/init.ee\fR, the
|
|
file \fI.init.ee\fR in the user's home directory, or the file \fI.init.ee\fR
|
|
in the current directory (if different from the home
|
|
directory). This allows system administrators to set some preferences for
|
|
the users on a system-wide basis (for example, the \fBprint\fR command),
|
|
and the user to customize settings for particular directories (like one
|
|
for correspondence, and a different directory for programming).
|
|
.PP
|
|
The file \fI\/usr/share/misc/init.ee\fR is read first, then
|
|
\fI$HOME/.init.ee\fR, then \fI.init.ee\fR, with the settings specified by the
|
|
most recent file read taking precedence.
|
|
.PP
|
|
The following items may be entered in the initialization file:
|
|
.RS 4
|
|
.IP \fBcase\fR
|
|
Sets searches to be case sensitive.
|
|
.IP \fBnocase\fR
|
|
Sets searches to be insensitive to case (default).
|
|
.IP \fBexpand\fR
|
|
Causes \fIee\fR to expand tabs to spaces (default).
|
|
.IP \fBnoexpand\fR
|
|
Causes \fIee\fR to insert tabs as a single character.
|
|
.IP \fBinfo\fR
|
|
A small information window is displayed at the top of the terminal
|
|
(default).
|
|
.IP \fBnoinfo\fR
|
|
Turns off the display of the information window.
|
|
.IP \fBmargins\fR
|
|
Causes \fIee\fR to truncate lines at the right margin when the
|
|
cursor passes beyond the right margin as set by the user
|
|
while text is being inserted
|
|
(default).
|
|
.IP \fBnomargins\fR
|
|
Allows lines to extend beyond the right margin.
|
|
.IP \fBautoformat\fR
|
|
Causes \fIee\fR to automatically try to format the current paragraph while
|
|
text insertion is occurring.
|
|
.IP \fBnoautoformat\fR
|
|
Turns off automatic paragraph formatting (default).
|
|
.IP \fBprintcommand\fR
|
|
Allows the setting of the print command (default: "lp").
|
|
.IP \fBrightmargin\fR
|
|
The user can select a value for the right margin (the first column on the
|
|
screen is zero).
|
|
.IP \fBhighlight\fR
|
|
Turns on highlighting border of information window and menus (default).
|
|
.IP \fBnohighlight\fR
|
|
Turns off highlighting of border of information window and menus.
|
|
.IP \fBeightbit\fR
|
|
Turns on display of eight bit characters.
|
|
.IP \fBnoeightbit\fR
|
|
Turns off display of eight bit characters (they are displayed as their decimal
|
|
value inside angle brackets, e.g., "<220>").
|
|
.IP \fB16bit\fR
|
|
Turns on handling of 16-bit characters.
|
|
.IP \fbno16bit\fR
|
|
Turns off handling of 16-bit characters.
|
|
.IP \fBemacs\fR
|
|
Turns on emacs key bindings.
|
|
.IP \fBnoemacs\fR
|
|
Turns off emacs key bindings.
|
|
.RE
|
|
.\"
|
|
.\" save editor configuration
|
|
.\"
|
|
.SS "Save Editor Configuration"
|
|
.PP
|
|
When using this entry from the
|
|
.B settings
|
|
menu, the user may choose to save the current configuration of
|
|
the editor (see \fBInitializing ee from a
|
|
file\fR above) to a file named
|
|
.I .init.ee
|
|
in the current directory or the user's home directory. If a file named
|
|
.I .init.ee
|
|
already exists, it will be renamed
|
|
.IR .init.ee.old .
|
|
.\"
|
|
.\" Caveats
|
|
.\"
|
|
.SH CAVEATS
|
|
.PP
|
|
THIS MATERIAL IS PROVIDED "AS IS". THERE ARE
|
|
NO WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WITH REGARD TO THIS
|
|
MATERIAL, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
|
|
IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
|
|
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Neither
|
|
Hewlett-Packard nor Hugh Mahon shall be liable
|
|
for errors contained herein, nor for
|
|
incidental or consequential damages in
|
|
connection with the furnishing, performance or
|
|
use of this material. Neither Hewlett-Packard
|
|
nor Hugh Mahon assumes any responsibility for
|
|
the use or reliability of this software or
|
|
documentation. This software and
|
|
documentation is totally UNSUPPORTED. There
|
|
is no support contract available. Hewlett-Packard
|
|
has done NO Quality Assurance on ANY
|
|
of the program or documentation. You may find
|
|
the quality of the materials inferior to
|
|
supported materials.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Always make a copy of files that cannot be easily reproduced before
|
|
editing. Save files early, and save often.
|
|
.SS "International Code Set Support"
|
|
.I ee
|
|
supports single-byte character code sets (eight-bit clean), or the
|
|
Chinese Big-5 code set. (Other multi-byte code sets may function, but the
|
|
reason Big-5 works is that a two-byte character also takes up two columns on
|
|
the screen.)
|
|
.SH WARNINGS
|
|
The automatic paragraph formatting operation
|
|
may be too slow for slower systems.
|
|
.SH FILES
|
|
.PP
|
|
.I /usr/share/misc/init.ee
|
|
.br
|
|
.I $HOME/.init.ee
|
|
.br
|
|
.I .init.ee
|
|
.SH AUTHOR
|
|
.PP
|
|
The software
|
|
.I ee
|
|
was developed by Hugh Mahon.
|
|
.PP
|
|
This software and documentation contains
|
|
proprietary information which is protected by
|
|
copyright. All rights are reserved.
|
|
.PP
|
|
Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 2001 Hugh Mahon.
|
|
.SH "SEE ALSO"
|
|
.PP
|
|
termcap(4), terminfo(4), environ(5), spell(1), ispell(1), lp(1), aee(1)
|
|
|