XED(1)XED(1)NAMExed - a text editor for X
SYNTAXxed [ -toolkitoption ...] [ filename ] [ line-number ]
OPTIONS
Xed 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 that is to be loaded during
start-up. This is the file which will be edited.
If a file is not specified, xed lets you load a
file or create a new file after it has started up.
The filename `-' means to read from standard
input. When reading from stdin, xed will quit if
it reaches end of file without reading anything
from stdin.
line-number
Specifies the current line number after start-up.
DESCRIPTION
Xed provides a window consisting of the following three
areas:
Menus Section A set of pull-down menus hope-
fully allowing you to do every-
thing you want with the text
file.
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.
EDITING
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 the pointer cursor
is currently over. If the pointer cursor is not over a
Text widget then the keypresses will have no effect on the
application.
MENUS
File Provides commands dealing with loading, saving and
printing the text file and of course quitting xed.
All fileselection are done by a fileselector
popup. Warning popup messages will appear if the
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selected command is going to discard changes.
Edit Provides special editing commands for cutting,
pasting, indenting and unindenting a selected
textblock.
Jump Provides commands for jumping to a linenumber,
textbeginning, textending, selection start and
selection end.
Search Provides commands for searching and replaceing
text. The activated popup allows you to search,
replace once, replace in a query mode or to
replace all. Although commands for finding the
corresponding bracket to a selected bracket and
for checking the bracket hierachy all over the
text are available. Known brackets are
"{,},[,],(,),/*,*/".
Special Provides some special commands for setting some
edit options, calling the sed stream editor, dis-
playing a helpfile and getting a copyright infor-
mation.
Commands
Provides a panel for performing Unix commands on
the whole textfile or the current text selection.
The result is diplayed in another xed window. Also
commands can be predefined by the user (see com-
mands RESOURCE).
Pipes Provides a panel for performing Unix commands on
the whole textfile or the current text selection.
The result replaces the current text selection.
Also commands can be predefined by the user (see
pipes RESOURCE).
RESOURCES
For xed the available resources are:
enableBackups (Class EnableBackups)
Specifies that, when edits made to an existing
file are saved, xed is to copy the original ver-
sion of that file to file<suffix> before it saves
the changes. The default value for this resource
is "off", stating that no backups should be cre-
ated.
backupNameSuffix (Class BackupNameSuffix)
Specifies a string that is to be appended to the
backup filename. The default is to append the
string ".BAK".
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printCommand (Class PrintCommand)
Specifies a command for printing the current file.
An "%f" in the string is expanded to the filename
which has to be printed (A copy of the current
file in the tmp directory). "%t" is expanded to
the real filename. The default command is "lpr -p
-T %t %f".
autoIndent (Class AutoIndent)
Specifies whether to autoindent by default or not.
The default is to autoindent.
*editWindow.autoFill (Class AutoFill)
Specifies whether to break a line when the user
attempts to type into the right margin or not.
*editWindow.wrap (Class Wrap)
Specifies default wrapmode for lines longer than
the textwindow. Values are never, word and line.
The default value is never.
tabsize (Class Tabsize)
Specifies the default tabsize in characters. The
default value is 8.
textheight (Class Textheight)
Specifies the default height of the textwindow in
number of characters. The default value is 40.
textwidth (Class Textwidth)
Specifies the default width of the textwindow in
number of characters. The default value is 80.
maxScrollbreak (Class MaxScrollbreak)
Specifies how many cursor up/down events with the
same serial number should be ignored.
insertranslations (Class Insertranslations)
Keybindings in Insert mode
overwritetranslations (Class Overwritetranslations)
Keybindings in Overwrite mode
commands (Class Commands) pipes (Class Pipes)
Each command has the format "<Menu entry> <Tab>
<Command string>\n\". Here is a short example with
some useful commands. It may be placed in the
users "~/.Xdefaults" file:
Xed*commands: Make make\n\
CC cc $stripped.c -o $stripped
Xed*pipes: Date date
The following variables are set and may be used in
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a command:
$selection: Filename of the temporary file con-
taining the current selection
$tempfile : Filename of the temporary saved text
file
$filename : Filename of the edited file
$stripped : Stripped Filename (without postfix and
path) of the edited file
ENVIRONMENT
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_MAN-
AGER property.
FILES
<LIBDIR>/X11/app-defaults/Xed - specifies required
resources
<LIBDIR>/X11/xed/xed.help - help text
<LIBDIR> stands for "/usr/lib" (X11 Release 5 or earlier)
or "/usr/X11R6/lib" (since X11 Release 6).
SEE ALSOX(1), xrdb(1), xedit(1), Athena Widget Set
COPYRIGHT
See X(1) for a full statement of rights and permissions.
AUTHORS
Randolf Werner, University Koblenz, Germany
Karl-Heinz Staudt, University Koblenz, Germany
Chris D. Peterson, MIT X Consortium
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