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LPE(1) General Commands Manual LPE(1)

NAME

lpe - Lightweight programmer's editor

SYNOPSIS

lpe [ --help | --version ]
lpe [ -- ] file

DESCRIPTION

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Lpe 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).

Options

Prints a brief description of program usage and terminates. This must be the first option to lpe, and all other options are ignored.
Prints a message indication the program version and terminates. This must be the first option to lpe, and all other options are ignored.
--
Treat future arguments as file names, not options. This allows lpe to be used to edit files starting with the - character.

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.

Command Keys

Go to previous line of text
Go to next line of text
Move cursor left one column
Move cursor right one column
Move cursor to beginning of line
Move cursor to end of line
Scroll one screen up
Scroll one screen down
Move cursor to beginning of buffer
Move cursor to end of buffer
Search for a specified string in the file
Kill the current line
Insert the most recent block of killed lines
Toggle between hard and soft tab characters
Open a new file within the editor
Write the buffer to disk
Save to an alternate file
Forget modifications to the buffer
Write the buffer to disk and exit
Perform an internal debug command
<interrupt>
Exit without writing to disk
Suspend the editor and escape to a prompt

<interrupt> 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.

SEE ALSO

emacs(1), pico(1)

AUTHOR

Chris Smith, cd_smith@ou.edu

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.

12 December 1998