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- ELVIS(1) USER COMMANDS ELVIS(1)
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- NAME
- elvis, ex, vi, view, input - The editor
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- SYNOPSIS
- elvis [flags] [+cmd] [files...]
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- DESCRIPTION
- Elvis is a text editor which emulates vi/ex.
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- On systems which pass the program name as an argument, such
- as Unix and Minix, you may also install elvis under the
- names "ex", "vi", "view", and "input". These extra names
- would normally be links to elvis; see the "ln" shell com-
- mand.
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- When elvis is invoked as "vi", it behaves exactly as though
- it was invoked as "elvis". However, if you invoke elvis as
- "view", then the readonly option is set as though you had
- given it the "-R" flag. If you invoke elvis as "ex", then
- elvis will start up in the colon command mode instead of the
- visual command mode, as though you had given it the "-e"
- flag. If you invoke elvis as "input" or "edit", then elvis
- will start up in input mode, as though the "-i" flag was
- given.
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- OPTIONS
- -r To the real vi, this flag means that a previous edit
- should be recovered. Elvis, though, has a separate
- program, called virec(1), for recovering files. When
- you invoke elvis with -r, elvis will tell you to run
- virec.
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- -R This sets the "readonly" option, so you won't acciden-
- tally overwrite a file.
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- -t tag
- This causes elvis to start editing at the given tag.
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- -m [file]
- Elvis will search through file for something that looks
- like an error message from a compiler. It will then
- begin editing the source file that caused the error,
- with the cursor sitting on the line where the error was
- detected. If you don't explicitly name a file, then
- "errlist" is assumed.
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- -e Elvis will start up in colon command mode.
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- -v Elvis will start up in visual command mode.
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- -i Elvis will start up in input mode.
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- +command
- If you use the +command parameter, then after the first
- file is loaded command is executed as an EX command. A
- typical example would be "elvis +237 foo", which would
- cause elvis to start editing foo and then move directly
- to line 237.
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- FILES
- /tmp/elv*
- During editing, elvis stores text in a temporary file.
- For UNIX, this file will usually be stored in the /tmp
- directory, and the first three characters will be
- "elv". For other systems, the temporary files may be
- stored someplace else; see the version-specific section
- of the documentation.
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- tags This is the database used by the :tags command and the
- -t option. It is usually created by the ctags(1) pro-
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- SEE ALSO
- ctags(1), ref(1), virec(1)
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- Elvis - A Clone of Vi/Ex, the complete elvis documentation.
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- BUGS
- There is no LISP support. Certain other features are miss-
- ing, too.
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- Auto-indent mode is not quite compatible with the real vi.
- Among other things, 0^D and ^^D don't do what you might
- expect.
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- Long lines are displayed differently. The real vi wraps
- long lines onto multiple rows of the screen, but elvis
- scrolls sideways.
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- AUTHOR
- Steve Kirkendall
- kirkenda@cs.pdx.edu
- ...uunet!tektronix!psueea!eecs!kirkenda
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- Many other people have worked to port elvis to various
- operating systems. To see who deserves credit, run the
- :version command from within elvis, or look in the system-
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