NAME

editor — text editor

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

editor is a text editor with basic editing functionality. It generally behaves like a GUI editor as opposed to common terminal editors. The file named by the file argument is loaded if specified. It quits when Ctrl-Q is typed.

Text can be selected by holding the Shift key and moving the cursor.

It supports these keyboard shortcuts:

Ctrl-C

Copy.

Ctrl-F

Search for a regular expression.

Ctrl-G

Go to line.

Ctrl-K

Cut.

Ctrl-O

Open file.

Ctrl-Q

Quit.

Ctrl-S

Save file.

Ctrl-V

Paste.

These commands than can be entered after pressing ESC and a colon:

language [none | c | c++ | diff]

Select syntax highlighting.

line-numbering [on | off]

Line numbering.

margin column-index

Display right margin at column-index.

popen shell-command

Open new file containing output of running shell-command.

tabsize tab-size

Select tab size.

A subset of these commands can be stored in the editor(5) configuration file loaded on editor startup.

FILES

/etc/editor

Global configuration.

~/.editor

User configuration.

SEE ALSO

pager(1), editor(5)

BUGS

editor lacks a number of crucial features, such as undo and redo, ability to open multiple files at once, and so on. The syntax highlighting can occasionally be inconsistent.