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EDITOR

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 5.2.1996
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NAME

editor - a text editor for X with drag and drop and accents capabilities.

SYNTAX

editor [ -toolkitoption ...] [ filename ] [ line-number ]

OPTIONS

Editoraccepts all of the standard X Toolkit command lineoptions (see X(1)). The order of the command line options isnot important.

filename: Specifies the file that is to be loaded during start-up. This is thefile which will be edited. If a file is not specified,editorlets you load a file or create a new file after it has started up.The filename `-' means to read from standard input. When reading from stdin, editor will quit if it reaches end of file withoutreading anything from stdin.
line-number: Specifies the current line number after start-up.

DESCRIPTION

Editorprovides a window consisting of the following three areas:

Menus Section: A set of pull-down menus hopefully allowing you to do everything you want with the text file.
Filename Display: Displays the name of the file currently being edited, and whether this fileis Read - Write or Read Only. You can also drag and drop a filein this area and the editor will automatically load this file(provided you are using the DND drag and drop protocol). If the file is saved you can drag the file name from this area too.
Edit Window: Displays the text of the file that you are editing or creating.

EDITING

The Athena Text widget is used for the three sections of thisapplication that allow text input. The characters typed will go tothe Text widget that the pointer cursor is currently over. If thepointer cursor is not over a Text widget then the keypresses will haveno effect on the application.

MENUS

File: Provides commands dealing with loading, saving and printing the text file andof course quitting editor. All fileselection are done by a fileselector popup.Warning popup messages will appear if the selected command is going to discardchanges.
Edit: Provides special editing commands for cutting, pasting, indenting and unindentinga selected textblock.
Jump: Provides commands for jumping to a linenumber, textbeginning, textending, selection startand selection end.
Search: Provides commands for searching and replaceing text. The activated popup allows youto search, replace once, replace in a query mode or to replace all.Although commands for findingthe corresponding bracket to a selected bracket and for checking the brackethierachy all over the text are available. Known brackets are "{,},[,],(,),/*,*/".
Special: Provides some special commands for setting some edit options, calling the sedstream editor, displaying a helpfile and getting a copyright information.
Commands: Provides a panel for performing Unix commands on the whole textfile or the currenttext selection. The result is diplayed in another editor window. Also commands canbe predefined by the user (see commands RESOURCE).
Pipes: Provides a panel for performing Unix commands on the whole textfile or the currenttext selection. The result replaces the current text selection. Also commands canbe predefined by the user (see pipes RESOURCE).

RESOURCES

For editor the available resources are:

enableBackups (Class EnableBackups)

Specifies that, when edits made to an existing file are saved,editoris to copy the original version of that file to file<suffix>before it saves the changes. The default value for this resource is"off", stating that no backups should be created.

backupNameSuffix (Class BackupNameSuffix)

Specifies a string that is to be appended to the backup filename. Thedefault is to append the string ".BAK".

printCommand (Class PrintCommand)

Specifies a command for printing the current file. An "%f" in the string is expanded to the filename which has to be printed (A copy of the current filein the tmp directory). "%t" is expanded to the real filename. The defaultcommand is "lpr -p -T %t %f".

autoIndent (Class AutoIndent)

Specifies whether to autoindent by default or not. The default is to autoindent.

*editWindow.autoFill (Class AutoFill)

Specifies whether to break a line when the user attempts to type into the right marginor not.

*editWindow.wrap (Class Wrap)

Specifies default wrapmode for lines longer than the textwindow. Values are never, word and line.The default value is never.

tabsize (Class Tabsize)

Specifies the default tabsize in characters. The default value is 8.

textheight (Class Textheight)

Specifies the default height of the textwindow in number of characters. The default value is 40.

textwidth (Class Textwidth)

Specifies the default width of the textwindow in number of characters. The default value is 80.

maxScrollbreak (Class MaxScrollbreak)

Specifies how many cursor up/down events with the same serial number shouldbe ignored.

insertranslations (Class Insertranslations)

Keybindings in Insert mode

overwritetranslations (Class Overwritetranslations)

Keybindings in Overwrite mode

commands (Class Commands) pipes (Class Pipes)

Each command has the format "<Menu entry> <Tab> <Command string>\n\". Hereis a short example with some useful commands. It may be placed in the users"~/.Xdefaults" file:

editor*commands: Make   make\n\

CC     cc $stripped.c -o $stripped

editor*pipes: Date     date

The following variables are set and may be used in a command:

$selection: Filename of the temporary file containing the current selection

$tempfile : Filename of the temporary saved text file

$filename : Filename of the edited file

$stripped : Stripped Filename (without postfix and path) of the edited file

ENVIRONMENT

DISPLAY: to get the default host and display number.
XENVIRONMENT: to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resourcesstored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.

FILES

<LIBDIR>/X11/app-defaults/editor - specifies required resources
<LIBDIR>/X11/editor/editor.help - help text
<LIBDIR> stands for "/usr/lib" (X11 Release 5 or earlier) or"/usr/X11R6/lib" (since X11 Release 6).

COPYRIGHT

See X(1) for a full statement of rights and permissions.

AUTHORS

Randolf Werner, University Koblenz, Germany
Karl-Heinz Staudt, University Koblenz, Germany
Chris D. Peterson, MIT X Consortium
Cesar A.R. Crusius, UFSC, Brazil

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