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NAMEle - full screen text editorSYNOPSISle [options] filenameDESCRIPTIONle is a text editor which offers wide range of capabilities with a simple interface. It has a pull down menu and a simple help system to get started. See KEYS section below to learn about key combinations.Among its features there are: various operations with stream and rectangular blocks, search and replace with full regular expressions, text formatting, undelete/uninsert, hex editing, tunable key sequences, tunable colors, tunable syntax highlighting. The editor currently supports only one loaded file at a time. KEYSHere are some starting hints:
In the editor the following key description is used:
Some of ^Fx, ~Fx, ^~Fx can be typed as ESC+Fx. The rest of key combinations can be seen in help, in menu and in the keyboard map (default one can be seen with le --dump-keymap). There is support for block filtering through an external program, a command output read-in, writing a block through a command. To read or write block from/to a command, use F4+R or F4+W and file name of the following format: ``|command args''. Filtering is achieved by F4+| followed by command name. STATUS LINEOn the status line you can see current line, column, the size of loaded file, the code of character under cursor, several one letter flags, file name, offset in bytes from the file beginning and percent position in the file.One letters flags are: * - modified; R - Russian keyboard (works only on certain terminals); I - insert, O - overstrike; A - autoindent; D - dos style line terminators (CR NL); U - undelete possible, u - uninsert possible; B - column block mode. TEXT PROTECTIONTo prevent changes loss on crash, le regularly dumps the editing text, if changed, to ~/.le/tmp/FILENAME.PID , where FILENAME is the file name with slashes converted to underlines; PID is the process id of the editor process.When the editor gets a fatal signal, it also dumps the text, to ~/.le/tmp/DUMP-SIG-FILENAME.PID , where SIG is the signal number. OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLESThe following environment variables are processed by le:
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DATADIR is determined at compile time by configure script (pkgdatadir variable). By default it has value /usr/local/share/le. AUTHORThe LE editor was written by Alexander V. Lukyanov <lav@yars.free.net>.
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