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xedit - simple text editor for X
xedit
[ -toolkitoption ... ] [ filename ... ]
Xedit provides a window consisting
of the following four areas:
- Commands Section
- A set of commands that allow
you to exit xedit, save the file, or load a new file into the edit window.
- Message Window
- Displays xedit messages. In addition, this window can be also
used as a scratch pad.
- Filename Display
- Displays the name of the file currently
being edited, and whether this file is Read-Write or Read Only.
- Edit Window
- Displays
the text of the file that you are editing or creating.
Xedit accepts
all of the standard X Toolkit command line options (see X(1)
). The order
of the command line options is not important.
- filename
- Specifies the file(s)
that are to be loaded during start-up. This is the file which will be edited.
If a file is not specified, xedit lets you load files or create new files
after it has started up.
The Athena Text widget is used for the three
sections of this application that allow text input. The characters typed
will go to the Text widget that has the input focus, or the Text widget
that the pointer cursor is currently over.
The following keystroke combinations
are defined:
Ctrl-a Beginning Of Line Meta-b Backward Word
Ctrl-b Backward Character Meta-f Forward Word
Ctrl-d Delete Next Character Meta-i Insert File
Ctrl-e End Of Line Meta-k Kill To End Of Paragraph
Ctrl-f Forward Character Meta-q Form Paragraph
Ctrl-g Keyboard Reset Meta-v Previous Page
Ctrl-h Delete Previous Character Meta-y Insert Current Selection
Ctrl-j Newline And Indent Meta-z Scroll One Line Down
Ctrl-k Kill To End Of Line Meta-d Delete Next Word
Ctrl-l Redraw Display Meta-D Kill Word
Ctrl-m Newline Meta-h Delete Previous Word
Ctrl-n Next Line Meta-H Backward Kill Word
Ctrl-o Newline And Backup Meta-< Beginning Of File
Ctrl-p Previous Line Meta-> End Of File
Ctrl-r Search/Replace Backward Meta-] Forward Paragraph
Ctrl-s Search/Replace Forward Meta-[ Backward Paragraph
Ctrl-t Transpose Characters
Ctrl-u [number] Multiply by 4 or number Meta-Delete Delete Previous Word
Ctrl-v Next Page Meta-Shift Delete Kill Previous Word
Ctrl-w Kill Selection Meta-Backspace Delete Previous Word
Ctrl-y Unkill Meta-Shift Backspace Kill Previous Word
Ctrl-z Scroll One Line Up Meta-z Scroll One Line Down
Ctrl-_ Undo
In addition, the pointer may be used to cut and paste text:
Button 1 Down Start Selection
Button 1 Motion Adjust Selection
Button 1 Up End Selection (cut)
Button 2 Down Insert Current Selection (paste)
Button 3 Down Extend Current Selection
Button 3 Motion Adjust Selection
Button 3 Up End Selection (cut)
- Quit
- Quits the current editing session. If any changes have not been
saved, xedit displays a warning message, allowing the user to save them.
- Save
- If file backups are enabled (see RESOURCES, below) xedit stores a copy
of the original, unedited file in <prefix>file<suffix>, then overwrites the
file with the contents of the edit window. The filename is retrieved from
the Text widget directly to the right of the Load button.
- Load
- Loads the
file named in the text widget immediately to the right of the this button
and displays it in the Edit window.
For xedit the available resources
are:
- enableBackups (Class EnableBackups)
- Specifies that, when edits made
to an existing file are saved, xedit is to copy the original version of
that file to <prefix>file<suffix> before it saves the changes. The default
value for this resource is ``on,'' stating that backups should be created.
- backupNamePrefix
(Class BackupNamePrefix)
- Specifies a string that is to be prepended to
the backup filename. The default is that no string shall be prepended.
- backupNameSuffix
(Class BackupNameSuffix)
- Specifies a string that is to be appended to the
backup filename. The default is to use ``~'' as the suffix.
- positionFormat (Class
Format)
- Specifies a format string used to display the cursor position.
This string uses printf(3)
like notation, where %l prints the line number,
%c prints the column number, %p prints the insert position offset, and
%s prints the current file size. It is also allowed to specifie field sizes,
with the notation %-?[0-9]+ . The default format string is ``L%l'', which shows
the character ``L'' followed by the line number.
- hints (Class Hints)
- Specifies
a list of strings, separated by new lines, that will be displayed in the
bc_label window.
- hintsInterval (Class Interval)
- Specifies the interval in
seconds, which the hint string in the bc_label window will be changed.
- changedBitmap
(Class Bitmap)
- Specifies the name of the Bitmap that will be displayed
in the fileMenu, when the file being edited is changed.
- autoReplace (Class
Replace)
- This resource is useful to automatically correct common mispelling
errors, but can also be used to create simple macros. The format is {non-blanks}{blanks}[{string}].
Fields are separeted by newlines. Example of use:
nto not\n\
/macro some long string with \\\n newlines \\\n
Will automatically replace the word nto by not, and /macro by some long
string with newlines
when you type that words.
- ispell.dictionaries (Class ispell.Dictionary)
- Specifies a list of dictionary names, separeted by spaces, available to
the ispell program. The default value is "american americamed+ english".
- ispell.dictionary (Class ispell.Dictionary)
- Specifies the default dictionary
to use.
- ispell*<DICTIONARY>.wordChars (Class ispell*Chars)
- Specifies a set
of characters that can be part of a legal word. The <DICTIONARY> field is
one of the dictionaries specified in the dictionaries resource.
- ispell.ispellCommand
(Class ispell.CommandLine)
- The path to the ispell program, and possibly,
additional arguments. You don't need to specify the ``-w'' option, neither the
``-a'' option. Refer to the ispell(1)
manpage for more information on ispell
options.
- ispell.formatting (Class ispell.TextFormat)
- Specifies which text
formatting to use while spell checking the file. The available formats are
text and html.
- ispell*text.skipLines (Class ispell*text.Skip)
- Lines starting
with one of the characters in this string will not be spell checked. This
resource is only used in text mode.
- ispell.terseMode (Class ispell.Terse)
- When enabled, runs ispell in terse mode, not asking user interaction for
words generated through compound formation (when using the ispell ``-C'' option),
or words generated through affix removal. The default value is False.
- ispell.lookCommand
(Class ispell.CommandLine)
- The path to the program to search for alternate
words, and possibily, additional arguments. The default program used is
/usr/bin/egrep.
- ispell.wordsFile (Class ispell.Words)
- The path to the file[s]
to search for alternate words. The default file is /usr/share/dict/words.
- ispell.guessLabel (Class ispell.Status)
- String displayed in the ispell status
bar when ispell returns a guess list of one or more words. The default value
is Guess.
- ispell.missLabel (Class ispell.Status)
- String displayed in the ispell
status bar when ispell returns a list of one or more words to match a mispelled
one. The default value is Miss.
- ispell.rootLabel (Class ispell.Status)
- String
displayed in the ispell status bar when the word is not in the dictionary,
but it can be formed through a root one. The default value is Root:, and
is followed by a space and the root word.
- ispell.noneLabel (Class ispell.Status)
- String displayed in the ispell status bar when there is no near misses.
The default value is None.
- ispell.compoundLabel (Class ispell.Status)
- String
displayed in the ispell status bar when the word being checked is formed
by concatenation of two words. The default value is Compound.
- ispell.okLabel
(Class ispell.Status)
- String displayed in the ispell status bar when the
checked word is in the dictionary. This string is only displayed when using
the check button in the xedit ispell interface. The default value is Ok.
- ispell.eofLabel (Class ispell.Status)
- The string displayed in the ispell
status bar when the end of the file is reached. The default value is End
Of File.
- ispell.repeatLabel (Class ispell.Status)
- The string displayed in
the ispell status bar when two indentical words are found together in the
file. The default value is Repeat.
- ispell.lookLabel (Class ispell.Status)
- The
string displayed in the ispell status bar after displaying the results
of the Look command. If no results are found, the value of the ispell.noneLabel
resource is shown.
- ispell.workingLabel (Class ispell.Status)
- The string displayed
in the ispell status bar while xedit is communicating with ispell. The default
value is ....
In order to specify resources, it is useful to know the
hierarchy of the widgets which compose xedit. In the notation below, indentation
indicates hierarchical structure. The widget class name is given first,
followed by the widget instance name.
Xedit xedit
Paned paned
Paned buttons
Command quit
Command save
Command load
Text filename
Label bc_label
Text messageWindow
Label labelWindow
Text editWindow
- DISPLAY
- to get the default host and display number.
- XENVIRONMENT
- to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources
stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property.
- <XRoot>/lib/X11/app-defaults/Xedit
- specifies required resources
X(1)
, xrdb(1)
, Athena Widget Set
Xedit
is not a replacement to Emacs.
Copyright 1988, Digital Equipment
Corporation.
Copyright 1989, X Consortium
Copyright 1998, The XFree86 Project
See X(1)
for a full statement of rights and permissions.
Chris D.
Peterson, MIT X Consortium
Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade, The XFree86 Project
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