| 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. | |
