.TH LPE 1 "12 December 1998" .SH NAME lpe \- Lightweight programmer's editor .SH SYNOPSIS \fBlpe\fP [ --help | --version ] .br \fBlpe\fP [ -- ] \fIfile\fP .SH DESCRIPTION \fBThis page needs to be translated into Bulgarian!!!\fP \fILpe\fP is a minimalist, visual, real-time text editor designed to make editing code easier without alienating its user from the shell. It includes abilities to search files for plain text and block cut and paste, along with standard editing capabilities. It takes some inspiration from emacs(1) and pico(1). .SS Options .TP \fB--help\fP Prints a brief description of program usage and terminates. This must be the first option to \fBlpe\fP, and all other options are ignored. .TP \fB--version\fP Prints a message indication the program version and terminates. This must be the first option to \fBlpe\fP, and all other options are ignored. .TP \fB--\fP Treat future arguments as file names, not options. This allows lpe to be used to edit files starting with the \- character. .SH NOTES As mentioned above, lpe is designed as a minimalist editor, meant to be small and robust and efficient, but not to provide too many superfluous features. For this reason, it should not be difficult to learn to use lpe, provided that one is willing to invest effort to learn a few basic keys. .SS Command Keys .TP \fBUp\fP or \fBAlt-K\fP Go to previous line of text .TP \fBDown\fP or \fBAlt-J\fP Go to next line of text .TP \fBLeft\fP or \fBAlt-H\fP Move cursor left one column .TP \fBRight\fP or \fBAlt-L\fP Move cursor right one column .TP \fBHome\fP or \fBAlt-0\fP Move cursor to beginning of line .TP \fBEnd\fP or \fBAlt-$\fP Move cursor to end of line .TP \fBPageUp\fP or \fBAlt-B\fP Scroll one screen up .TP \fBPageDn\fP or \fBAlt-F\fP Scroll one screen down .TP \fBAlt-A\fP Move cursor to beginning of buffer .TP \fBAlt-S\fP Move cursor to end of buffer .TP \fBCtrl-S\fP Search for a specified string in the file .TP \fBCtrl-K\fP Kill the current line .TP \fBCtrl-Y\fP or \fBCtrl-U\fP Insert the most recent block of killed lines .TP \fBCtrl-T\fP Toggle between hard and soft tab characters .TP \fBCtrl-O\fP Open a new file within the editor .TP \fBCtrl-W\fP Write the buffer to disk .TP \fBCtrl-Q\fP Save to an alternate file .TP \fBCtrl-E\fP Forget modifications to the buffer .TP \fBCtrl-X\fP Write the buffer to disk and exit .TP \fBCtrl-D\fP Perform an internal debug command .TP \fB\fP Exit without writing to disk .TP \fBCtrl-Z\fP Suspend the editor and escape to a prompt \fB\fP refers to your terminal's interrupt key. This is often Ctrl-C, but can vary between terminals. Ctrl-Z, on the other hand, is fixed, regardless of the normal stop key for your terminal. .SH "SEE ALSO" emacs(1), pico(1) .SH AUTHOR Chris Smith, cd_smith@ou.edu .SH BUGS Lots of 'em -- see the BUGS file in the distribution for a partial list. I am not planning on updating this man page often enough to keep up with the bug list, so I won't even try to list bugs here.