emacs [-nw] [options] [file[s]] | GM |
The GNU project Emacs editor. See also xemacs for another version. The most useful options are: -nw |
do not start up emacs in a separate window |
+n |
go to line n in the file to be edited |
-q |
do not load an .emacs init file |
-u user |
load the user's .emacs init file |
For help on the customized keyboard layout press F1, PF1 or Help. | |
ispell [options] [file[s]] | GF |
Interactive spelling checking. The most common usage (interactively spell check a file) is ispell [-dlanguage] file. German text with umlauts can be spell checked with ispell-ddeutsch -Tlatin1 file. Not well suited but usable for spell checking of single words: echo "word" | ispell -a | |
less [options] [file[s]] | GFM |
Text browser similar to more. The default behavior and function key assignments have been changed (see environment variables $LESS...). This way the files are preprocessed by lesspipe.sh to allow browsing of compressed files, tar files, man pages and many other formats. Some useful options are: - |
display help information |
-e |
exit if EOF is hit 2nd time (now default, change with -+e) |
-i |
ignore case in searches |
-n |
suppresses line numbers (useful for very large files) |
-S |
chop long lines |
+/pattern |
start at first occurrence of pattern |
+n |
goto line n (+G to EOF, +n |
to a position n? percent into file) |
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more [options] [file[s]] | UF |
Browse through a text file. Use less for enhanced functionality. | |
nedit [options] [file[s]] | P |
Motif GUI style text editor. Use e.g. nedit -h to get a short usage text. | |
od [-bcdfoxv] [-N bytes] [-t type] [file[s]] | UF |
dump files in octal and other formats (selected by type or single letter option) | |
pico[-f] [+n] [-nn] [-t] [-v] [-w] [-z] [file] | P |
Simple text editor in the style of the pine composer. Commands are displayed at the bottom of the screen, and context sensitive help is provided. Option -w disables word wrap and thus allows editing of long lines. | |
vi [options] [file[s]] | U |
Screen-oriented (visual) display editor. See also the more capable vim below. Some useful options are: +[n] |
go to line n (or to the last line) in the file to be edited |
+/pattern |
start at first occurrence of pattern |
-r file |
recover from crashed editing sessions |
-R |
readonly mode |
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vim [options] [file[s]] | P |
gvim [options] [file[s]] | |
vi improved, a programmers text editor. Lots of enhancements above vi like multi level undo, multi windows and buffers, command line editing, filename completion, on-line help, visual selection, etc. Some useful options are: +[n] |
go to line n (or to the last line) in the file to be edited |
+/pattern |
start at first occurrence of pattern |
-b |
binary mode to help editing binary files |
-g |
start the GUI version of vim. Equivalent to gvim |
-r [file] |
recover from crashed editing sessions |
-u file |
load an alternate init file |
-v |
readonly mode |
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xedit [options] [file] | P |
Simple text editor for X. All of the standard X Toolkit command line options (see man X) are accepted. | |
xemacs [-nw] [options] [file[s]] | GM |
The XEmacs editor. See also emacs for the GNU version of emacs. The most useful options are: -nw |
do not start up xemacs in a separate window |
+n |
go to line n in the file to be edited |
-no-site-file |
do not load the site-specific init file |
-q |
do not load an init file |
-u user |
load the user's init file |
For help on the customized keyboard layout press F1, PF1 or Help. | |