efte1

Usage

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the efte.

This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others), because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in html format; see below.

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

Options

efte 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 -.

-noxmb

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

-font

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

Environmental variables

This is list of variable which might change behavior of some internals of efte.

VIOFONT - select font used by xefte

ISOCONSOLE - when set, vefte is usign ascii symbols to draw tables. This is useful when iso latin charset is used on console.

Examples

efte -mBIN /usr/bin/vefte

load /usr/bin/vefte in BIN mode

efte -mBIN -+ -bla-

load file -bla- in BIN mode

efte -l100,30 win.c

go to (100,30) in win.c

efte window.cpp

load file window.cpp

efte -- -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6

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

efte -D -H efte.dsk efte.his

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

Files

~/.efterc
/usr/local/etc/efte/system.fterc
/etc/efte/system.fterc

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

Date

18 Nov 1999