fte - Text editor

fte [[options] files ...] xfte [[options] files ...] vfte [[options] files ...] sfte [[options] files ...]

This manual page documents briefly the fte.

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.

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

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 -.

-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.

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.

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

~/.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.

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

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

18 Nov 1999