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- .th EM I 4/2/76
- .if t .ds q \(aa
- .if n .ds q '
- .sh NAME
- em \*- editor for mortals
- .sh SYNOPSIS
- em
- [
- .bd \*-
- ] [ -p ] [ name ]
- .sh DESCRIPTION
- .it Em
- is a QMC variant of the standard Unix text editor - ed.
- It includes all of ed, so the documentation for ed
- is fully applicable to em.
- Em also has a number of new commands and facilities designed to
- improve its interaction
- and increase its usefulness to users at fast vdu terminals (such
- as the ITT's at QMC).
-
- .it Em
- differs from ed in that it normally prefixes command lines with a '>'.
- For those who prefer silence, if the editor is invoked by any
- name not having 'm' as its second character, no prompts will appear.
- Other ways of controlling prompts are described below.
-
- Commands to em may be typed in upper- or lower-case letters.
-
- .it Em
- has the following extra commands. They are designed principally
- for use at
- any Teletype-compatible terminal operating at speeds of 1200 baud
- or more.
- .s3
- .lp +5 5
- b
- .lp+5 5
- b-
- .br
- The 'break' command 'b'
- turns on automatic line breaks. During subsequent input to the 'open'
- command (see below), the first space after character position
- 60 of each line typed will be replaced by a 'newline'.
- Automatic line breaks are inserted only during input with one of
- the variants of the 'o' command.
- They may be suppressed by the command 'b-'.
- If the current saved filename ends in '.n' or '.r', then 'b' is automatically
- invoked.
- .s3
- .lp +5 5
- h
- .br
- The 'help' command displays a summary of the commands available in em.
- The summary resides
- in /usr/lib/emhelp, and is designed to fill exactly 18 lines of
- 80 characters.
- .s3
- .lp +5 5
- ( \fB. \fR, \fB. \fR)o
- .lp +5 5
- ( \fB. \fR, \fB. \fR)o/regular expression/
- .lp+5 5
- ( \fB. \fR, \fB. \fR)o+
- .lp+5 5
- ( \fB. \fR, \fB. \fR)o-
- .lp+5 5
- ( \fB. \fR, \fB. \fR)o\\
- .br
- The 'open' command provides an additional level of editing
- for interactive corrections during input of new lines of text
- and for alterations to existing lines.
- The first two forms of the 'o' command operate on an existing
- line. The line
- is opened with the cursor positioned at the first occurence of the regular
- expression if present,
- otherwise at the start of the line.
-
- The commands 'o+', 'o-' and 'o\\' are equivalent to the 'a', 'i'
- and 'c' commands respectively, except in their use of the control
- keys listed below, and in that they are not terminated by a line
- containing a single '.', but by an ESCAPE or ^D. 'o;' is equivalent
- to 'o+'.
- In all variants of the 'o' command it is possible to position
- the cursor within the line, to delete characters, words or portions
- of the line,
- and to insert new text at any point, using control keys
- as follows:
-
- .nf
- .in +5
-
- ^A re-display curent line to cursor
- ^B move cursor back one word
- ESCAPE or ^D exit from 'o' mode
- ^E display all of current line
- ^F delete forwards to end of current line
- ^H gives summary of control keys
- ^Q display next character
- ^R Release margin
- ^S re-scan from start of current line
- ^V verify spelling of preceding alphabetic
- string (see "spell(I)")
- ^W display next word
- ^Z delete preceding word
- # or ^X delete preceding character
- @ delete backwards to start of current line
- RUBOUT exit with current line unchanged
- .in -5
- .fi
-
-
- Other characters (including RETURN) are inserted as typed.
- In this mode, diagnostic information is provided on ITT terminals
- in the form of a
- backward '?' when control keys are used inappropriately. When the automatic
- line break facility is operative, a 'bell' is transmitted to
- the terminal before each newline is inserted. The newline may
- be inhibited by the '^R' code.
-
- .s3
- .lp +5 5
- ( \fB. \fR, \fB. \fR)x/regular expression/replacement/
- .br
- The exchange command performs exactly the same functions
- as an equivalent substitute command 's', except that it enables
- the user to determine
- interactively whether or not each replacement is to be
- performed.
- Each instance of the specified regular expression
- is displayed, underscored with '^' characters.
- The user must type '.' RETURN to perform the replacement or
- just RETURN to omit it.
-
- .s3
- .lp +5 5
- ( \fB. \fR)
- "
- .br
- The " command is equivalent to '.+1,.+17p'.
- .s3
- .lp +5 5
- ( \fB. \fR)
- %
- .br
- The % command is equivalent to '.-7,.+7p', except that the value
- of '.' is unchanged by it, and the current line is separated from its
- neighbours on the screen by a line of '-'s.
- .s3
- .lp +5 5
- ( \fB. \fR)
- &
- .br
- This is equivalent to '.-16,.p'.
- .s3
- .lp +5 5
- !
- .br
- Two additional facilities are available under the '!' (escape to UNIX)
- command. '!!'repeats the last command executed in ! mode.
- '%' anywhere in a '!' line is replaced by the currently selected
- filename.
- .s3
- .lp +5 5
- >
- .lp +5 5
- <
- .br
- '>' turns prompting off, '<' turns it on again.
-
- .in -5
- When using 'x' or 's' in em it is possible to obtain a count of the
- number of replacements performed by postfixing the command with an 'n'.
- Unsuccessful searches for strings in em are indicated by '??'.
- .sh FILES
- /usr/emhelp
- .sh "SEE ALSO"
- ed(I), spell(I)
- .br
- A Tutorial Introduction to the ED Text Editor
- (B. W. Kernighan)
- .sh BUGS
- The underscoring in the 'x' command is sometimes incorrect on ITT terminals,
- especially when the
- line contains {,},\\- or \\!.
- The
- ",% and & commands should restrict their scope to the dimensions
- of whatever screen is in use.
- Tab settings are assumed to be at every eighth character position.
-