IEDITOR(1) IEDITOR(1)
NAME
ieditor - a simple internationalized mouse-based text editor
SYNOPSIS
ieditor [-bg | -background colorname] [-display display] [-fg |
-foreground colorname] [-geometry sizeXsize+pos+pos] [-iconic] [-title
title] [-xnllanguage locale] [-xrm resource_string] [files]
DESCRIPTION
ieditor is a simple internationalized editor in which the mouse is used
to cut, copy, and paste text, and to position the cursor. ieditor also
allows the user to perform simple searches and replaces.
ieditor accepts several standard X-style command-line arguments (listed
above) whose default values can be initialized in your
Foreground and background colors are set using the options of the same
name.
ieditor uses a font list --mincho-*--14-;7x14;*--14-* as default fonts.
If you want to change fonts from default to another, add a font list
specification to your $HOME/.Xdefaults file. Then ieditor will use the
given fonts to display text. For example, the line
IEditor*fontList: --gothic-*--24-;12x24;*--24-*:
lets ieditor's font size be 24 dots and Japanese font be Gothic.
Across the top of every ieditor window is a menubar containing the
following entries:
File Commands on this menu allow the user to move text files into and
out of ieditor windows, and allow the user to quit the
application. These commands include the following:
New Opens a new document window. A dialogue pops up to
prompt for the new filename. If there are unsaved
changes to the current document, a dialogue pops up
asking whether to save them. If there exists a file with
the new filename, it will be opened.
Open Opens an editing window on an existing text file. A
dialogue pops up to prompt for a filename. If there are
unsaved changes to the current document, a dialogue pops
up asking whether to save them.
Insert Places the contents of a text file at the current cursor
position. A dialogue pops up to prompt for the filename.
Close Closes the editor window. If there are unsaved changes
to the current document, a dialogue pops up asking
whether to save them.
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Save Saves the editor's contents to disk.
Save As... Prompts for a new file to save the current document into.
A dialogue pops up to prompt for the new filename. The
editor writes into the new file the next time the Save
command is used.
Print Sends the editor contents to a printer. If there are
unsaved changes to the current document, a dialogue pops
up asking whether to save them.
Exit Applies the Close command to every open ieditor window,
and then the ieditor process exits.
Edit Changes to the editor window's contents are made with the
commands on the Edit menu. These commands include the following:
Undo Undoes the results of the last Edit command.
Cut Removes selected text to the cut buffer. The cut text
can be pasted into another ieditor window or into the
window from which it was cut.
Copy Copies selected text to the cut buffer. The copied text
can be pasted into another ieditor window, as well as
into the window from which it was copied.
Paste Transfers text from the cut buffer to the current text
cursor location (the point). If text is selected when
the paste is made, the selected text is replaced with the
text from the buffer. This text could have been cut or
copied from any ieditor window.
Clear Removes the selected text from the editor window without
putting it into the cut buffer.
Search Scans the document for the first string that matches a
given string. A dialogue pops up to request the string
to be searched for. Pressing the Search Forward (Search
Backward) button in the dialogue starts ieditor searching
forward (backward) from the current point for a string
that matches the given string. If none is found before
the end (beginning) of the file, the search restarts at
the beginning (end). If none is still found when the
search finishes wrapping back to its starting point,
ieditor will pop up a warning dialogue. The matching
string will be selected. To find the next instance,
click the Search Forward (Search Backward) button while
the mouse (arrow) cursor is in the dialogue.
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Search/Replace Scans the document for a string and replaces the found
string with another one. A dialogue pops up to request
the string to be searched for (search string) and the
string to be replaced with (replacement string). There
are three types of Search/Replace:
1) Replace One by One
Push the Search Forward (Search Backward) button to
search the document for a string that matches the search
string. Push the Replace button to replace the found
string with the replacement string.
2) Replace within Range
Specify the range within which search/replace should be
performed by typing in line numbers to define the range.
Push the Replace Part button. Within the range, all
strings matching the search string will be replaced with
the replacement string.
3) Replace All
Push the Replace All button. All strings in the document
that match the search string will be replaced with the
replacement string.
View The commands on the View menu allow the user to change what part
of the document appears in the ieditor window. These commands
include the following:
File Top Scrolls to the beginning page of the document and moves
the cursor to the beginning of the document.
File Bottom Scrolls to the ending page of the document and moves the
cursor to the end of the document.
Page Up Scrolls one page toward the beginning of the document and
moves the cursor back one page.
Page Down Scrolls one page toward the end of the document and moves
the cursor forward one page.
Jump To Line Jumps to the beginning of the specified line. A dialogue
pops up to prompt for the line number.
Line Number Allows the user to toggle whether line numbers are shown
or hidden.
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SELECTING TEXT
To select text, use the left mouse button to perform the following
actions as needed:
click Sets the point (I-beam or text cursor) to
wherever the mouse cursor is pointing in the
text.
press-drag-release Selects all text between the the point where
the left mouse button is first pressed down and
the point where it is released. Dragging out
of the window causes ieditor to scroll in the
direction of the edge that the cursor crossed.
click-click Causes the word over which the mouse cursor is
clicked to be selected.
shift&click Extends a block of text that the user has
already selected. To extend the selection
forwards or backwards, hold down the shift key
and then click at the end of the extended
selection.
shift&click-drag-release Also extends a block of text the user has
already selected. This differs in that the
extension of the selection changes as the mouse
is dragged.
TRANSFERRING X SELECTIONS
ieditor can grab text from or give text to applications that use the X
Window System's ICCC selection mechanism, such as wsh. To send from
ieditor to wsh, select text in ieditor using the mouse cursor, then move
the mouse cursor into a wsh window and press the middle mouse button. To
grab from wsh, select text in the wsh window, then move the mouse cursor
into a ieditor window and press middle mouse. The text from wsh will be
inserted at the point or replace the currently selected text in ieditor.
KEYBOARD COMMANDS
The point can be moved in the document via the arrow keys. Holding shift
while pressing the arrow keys will select the text that is moved over.
The following keyboard accelerators are available:
Alt+Backspace Undo
Shift+Delete Cut
Ctrl+Insert Copy
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Shift+Insert Paste
Delete Clear
Alt+S Search
Alt+R Search/Replace
Home File Top
End File Bottom
Page Up/Alt+B Page Up
Page Down/Alt+F Page Down
Alt+J Jump To Line
Alt+L Line Number
Ctrl+B Move the cursor one character to the left.
Ctrl+F Move the cursor one character to the right.
Alt+P Move the cursor to the first non-whitespace character
after the first whitespace character to the left or the
beginning of the line.
Alt+N Move the cursor to the first whitespace character or end
of line following the next non-whitespace character.
Ctrl+A Move the cursor to the beginning of the line.
Ctrl+E Move the cursor to the end of the line.
Ctrl+P Move the cursor up one line.
Ctrl+N Move the cursor down one line.
SCROLL BARS
ieditor uses horizontal and vertical scroll bars with proportionally
sized sliders.
Clicking on the arrows with the left mouse button causes the ieditor
window to scroll one character up, down, left, or right. Holding down
the left button over any arrow causes the scrolling to repeat
automatically. Holding down the shift key while clicking on any arrow
causes the window to scroll one full page of text.
The scroll bars' sliders can also be used to scroll through the ieditor
window by pressing the left mouse button while dragging the slider with
the mouse cursor. The sliders vary in size to indicate the percentage of
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total text that is visible in the window.
For more information about the entire IRIX Interactive Desktop
environment, see the IID(1) man page.
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