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LPE(1) General Commands Manual LPE(1)

NAME

lpe - Lightweight programmer's editor

SYNOPSIS

lpe [ --help | --version ]
lpe [--mode <mode>] [ -- ] file

DESCRIPTION

Lpe is a small, fast, visual text editor designed to make editing code easier. It provides simultaneously all the features that may be required in a good code editor while preserving a light and intuitive feel that makes it nice to use.

Options

Prints a brief description of program usage and terminates. This must be the first option to lpe, and all other options are ignored.
Prints a message indication the program version and terminates. This must be the first option to lpe, and all other options are ignored.
Sets the buffer mode to the one specified, instead of scanning for a suitable mode from those available.
--
Treat future arguments as file names, not options. This allows lpe to be used to edit files starting with the - character.

NOTES

What follows are the control key functions for lpe. Arrow keys, home, end, backspace, delete and the like all do as they would be expected to do. Some control keys are bound to the same function as some standard movement keys, such as home or page down. This is because the more intuitive keys may not be available on some systems.

Command Keys

Move cursor to beginning of line (alternative to Home)
Move cursor to end of line (alternative to End)
Scroll one screen up (alternative to PgUp)
Scroll one screen down (alternative to PgDn)
Move to the next word
Move to the previous word
Kill the current line
Insert the most recent block of killed lines
Search for a specified string in the file
Search again for the last search query
Open a new file to replace the current buffer
Save the buffer to disk
Save to disk with an alternate file name
Read a file and insert it at the current cursor position
Pretend that a buffer hasn't been modified
Set the mode of the current buffer
Toggle between hard and soft tabs for this buffer
Toggle automatic indentation of this buffer
Go to the first line of the buffer
Go to the last line of the buffer
Go to a specific line number of the buffer
Enter a value for the command repeater
Multiply the command repeater value by four
Start or stop recording a macro
Play back the last recorded macro
Pass the entire buffer through a shell command
Pass the entire buffer through an awk script
Pass the entire buffer through a sed script
Pass several lines of the buffer through a shell command
Pass several lines of the buffer through an awk script
Pass several lines of the buffer through a sed script
Perform an internal debug command
Write the buffer to disk and exit
<interrupt>
Exit without writing to disk
Suspend the editor and escape to a prompt
Erase and redraw the entire screen

<interrupt> refers to your terminal's interrupt key. This is often Ctrl-C, but can vary between terminals. Ctrl-Z, on the other hand, is fixed, regardless of the normal stop key for your terminal.

MODULES

Although lpe is meant to be small, it has the capability of performing more advanced actions through a feature known as buffer modes. Buffer modes allow lpe to act differently according to the programming language in the current buffer. They are implemented through language modules, which are loaded at run-time by lpe to handle buffers that they apply to.

All language modules should be placed in a module repository directory. These directories are set by the LPE_MODULE_PATH environment variable, which should be a colon-separated list of directories (similar to PATH). If this variable is not set, then lpe scans for modules in the following locations, and in this order:

$HOME/.lpe /usr/local/lib/lpe /usr/lib/lpe /etc/lpe

Note that the /etc/lpe directory is old, obsolete, and non-standard. It should not be used to hold modules. As modules are binary files and are specific to the architecture that uses them, they should be properly placed in the lib directories listed above.

These locations are scanned at run-time, and any regular files in them are interpreted as potential language modules for use by lpe. Subdirectories will not be scanned. A buffer will be assigned the first mode found that applies to that file, so for example a mode in a user's home directory will override one in the system-wide lib directory.

SEE ALSO

emacs(1), pico(1)

AUTHOR

Chris Smith, cd_smith@ou.edu

BUGS

Lots of 'em -- see the BUGS file in the distribution for a partial list. I am not planning on updating this man page often enough to keep up with the bug list, so I won't even try to list bugs here.

12 December 1998