FTE

NAME

fte - Text editor

SYNOPSIS

fte [[options] files ...]

xfte [[options] files ...]

vfte [[options] files ...]

nfte [[options] files ...]

sfte [[options] files ...]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the fte.

Some detailed documentation is available html format, see below.

fte is a powerful text editor which closely resembles Borlands programming editors for M$-DOS, but is far more flexible and configurable.

OPTIONS

fte uses a command line syntax, which is a little bit different from most of Debian GNU/Linux apps.
-h -? --help

Help on command line options.

-!

Ignore any external configuration file and use internal configuration.

-l<line>[,<column>]

Go to line (and column) in next file on command line.

-#<line>[<,column>]

Same as -l. Do not use this option.

-m[<mode>]

Set mode for next files to <mode>. If just plain -m, then use default mode.

-C[<.cnf>]

Use specified configuration file (compiled). Plain -C does the same as -!.

-D[<.dsk>]

Load/save desktop from file <.dsk>. If no argument, disable desktop load/save.

-H[<.his>]

Load/save history from file <.his>. If no argument, disable history load/save.

-T<tagfile>

Load ’tagfile’ at startup.

-t<tag>

Lookup tag ’tag’ and display file containing it.

	--		The rest of the arguments are not options, but filenames.
	-+		The next argument is not an option even if starting with a ’-’. Useful when loading files that begin with a -.

-noi18n

Do not use locales in xfte - useful if you have incorrect locales.

-noxmb

Do not use XMB functions in xfte - useful if you have incorrect locales and you want to use just english fonts.

-font

Select XWindow font to use with xfte. See VIOFONT also.

ENVIRONMENTAL VARIABLES

This is list of variable which might change behavior of some internals of fte.
VIOFONT - select font used by xfte
ISOCONSOLE - when set, vfte is usign ascii symbols to draw tables. This is
useful when iso latin charset is used on console.

EXAMPLES

fte -mBIN /usr/bin/vfte

load /usr/bin/vfte in BIN mode

fte -mBIN -+ -bla-

load file -bla- in BIN mode

fte -l100,30 win.c

go to (100,30) in win.c

fte window.cpp

load file window.cpp

fte -- -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6

load files -1, -2, -3, -4, -5, -6

fte -D -H fte.dsk fte.his

disable desktop and history loading and saving and load files fte.dsk and fte.his

FILES

˜/.fterc
/usr/local/etc/fte/system.fterc
/etc/fte/system.fterc

Default configuration files. Includes all keybindings and menus compiled with cfte(1) from config files in /usr/share/doc/fte/config-example.tar.gz.

SEE ALSO

cfte(1), /usr/share/doc/fte/contents.html

AUTHORS

This manual page was written by Riku Voipio and Zdenek Kabelac <riku.voipio@iki.fi> <kabi@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system.

DATE

18 Nov 1999