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TEXTEDIT(1) TEXTEDIT(1)

NAME
textedit - XView window- and mouse-based text editor

SYNOPSIS
textedit [ generic-tool-arguments ] [ -Ea on | off ] [ -adjust_is_pend‐
ing_delete ] [ -Ei on | off ] [ -auto_indent ] [ -Eo on | off ] [
-okay_to_overwrite ] [ -Er on | off ] [ -read_only ] [ -Ec N ] [
-checkpoint count ] [ -EL lines ] [ -lower_context lines ] [ -Em pixels
] [ -margin pixels ] [ -En N ] [ -number_of_lines lines ] [ -ES N ] [
-multi_click_space radius ] [ -Et N ] [ -tab_width tabstop ] [ -ET N ]
[ -multi_click_timeout intrvl ] [ -Eu N ] [ -history_limit max ] [ -EU
N ] [ -upper_context lines ] filename

AVAILABILITY
This command is available with the OpenWindows environment. For infor‐
mation about installing OpenWindows, refer to the OpenWindows Installa‐
tion and Start-Up Guide.

DESCRIPTION
textedit is a window-based XView application that provides both mouse
and pointer operations and keyboard accelerators for the editing of
text. In general, text editing throughout the OpenWindows user envi‐
ronment uses textedit conventions, both in text display areas such as
mail message windows and command panel text fields.

textedit operates via a set of command panel buttons and text fields
and a set of menus and submenus accessible from the main editing win‐
dow.

OPTIONS
generic-tool-arguments
textedit accepts the XView generic tool arguments described in
the XView Reference Manual.

-Ea on|off
-adjust_is_pending_delete
Choose whether or not an adjustment to a selection makes the
selection “pending-delete.” The default is off. This option
corresponds to, and overrides, the adjust_is_pending_delete Text
defaults entry.

-Ei on|off
-auto_indent
Choose whether or not to automatically indent newly-opened
lines. The default is off. Corresponds to the auto_indent Text
default.

-Eo on|off
-okay_to_overwrite
Set behavior to the Store as New File menu item. If on a Store
as New File to the current file is treated as a Save Current
File. If off (the standard default), Store as New File opera‐
tions using the current filename results in an error message.
Corresponds to Store_self_is_save.

-Er on|off
-read_only
Turn read-only mode on or off. When on, text cannot be modi‐
fied.

-Ec N
-checkpoint count
Checkpoint after every count editing operation. If count is 0
(the standard default), no checkpointing takes place. Each
character typed, each Paste, and each Cut counts as an editing
operation. Corresponds to checkpoint_frequency.

-EL lines
-lower_contextlines
Specify the minimum number of lines to keep between the caret
and the bottom of the text subwindow. The default is 2. Corre‐
sponds to lower_context.

-Em pixels
-margin pixels
Set the scrollbar margin width in pixels. The default is 4.
Corresponds to left_margin.

-En N
-number_of_lines lines
Set the number of lines in the bottom subwindow. The default is
45.

-ES N
-multi_click_space radius
Set the radius in pixels, within which clicks must occur to be
treated as a multi-click selection. The default is 3 pixels.
Corresponds to multi_click_space.

-Et N
-tab_width tabstop
Set the number of SPACE characters displayed per TAB stop. The
default is 8. This option has no effect on the characters in
the file. Corresponds to tab_width.

-ET N
-multi_click_timeout intrvl
Set the interval, in milliseconds, within which any two clicks
must occur to be treated as a multi-click selection. The
default is 390 milliseconds. Corresponds to multi_click_time‐
out.

-Eu N
-history_limit max
Set the maximum number of editing operations that can be undone
or replayed. The default is 50. Corresponds to history_limit.

-EU N
-upper_context lines
Set the minimum number of lines to keep between the caret and
the top of the text subwindow. The default is 2. Corresponds
to upper_context.

USAGE
textedit is part of the OpenWindows user environment. For a descrip‐
tions of the basic concepts of OpenWindows, see the OpenWindows User's
Guide.

Signal Processing
If textedit hangs, for whatever reason, you can send a SIGHUP....s0
signal to its process ID, which forces it to write any changes (if pos‐
sible):

kill -HUP pid

The edits are written to the file textedit.pid in its working direc‐
tory. If that fails, textedit successively tries to write to a file by
that name in /var/tmp, and then /tmp. In addition, whenever textedit
catches a fatal signal, such as SIGILL, it tries to write out the edits
before aborting.

Defaults Options
You can specify a number of defaults using the .Xdefaults file that
affect the behavior of the text-based facilities. See xview(1) for
more detailed information.

Selections
Selections in textedit are defined as selected portions of text to
which editing operations can be applied. For example, a selection can
be deleted, moved, copied, etc.

textedit provides two types of selections: primary and secondary. Pri‐
mary selections allow you to select a set of text on which to perform
an editing function. Secondary selections allow you to define a second
block of text without undefining your primary text selection or reposi‐
tioning your cursor. Being able to define two sets of text at once
allows you to take advantage of the advanced editing functions
described below in the section called Function Keys.

Using a Mouse and Pointer:
Single characters can be selected using the SELECT.
Blocks of text can be selected by selecting a starting point
with the SELECT and selecting an ending point with ADJUST.
Or blocks of text can be selected using OPEN LOOK's wipe
through feature by pointing at a beginning character and
depressing the select button while moving the pointer to the
end of a block of text.
Selections can also be made by sing clicking (rapidly press‐
ing) the select button. Click once to select a single letter;
click twice to select a word; click three times to select a
complete line of text; click four times to select the entire
document being edited.

Visual Feedback
All primary selections are indicated visually by inverse
video of the text selected and are pending delete. Pending
delete selections are replaced if you type or paste while the
text is selected.
Secondary selections that are not pending delete are indi‐
cated by underlining of the text.
Secondary selections pending delete are indicated by under‐
lining of the text and strike through of the individual char‐
acters.

Secondary Selections
Secondary selections are made using any of the selection methods
described above in addition to holding down one of the four
function keys corresponding to the commands Cut, Find, Paste, or
Copy.

Secondary selections are made pending delete by holding the CTRL
key when making the secondary selection. If a secondary selec‐
tion is pending-delete, it is deleted when the function key is
released, except in the case of the Find, which deselects the
secondary selection.

You can make adjusted selections switch to pending-delete using
the adjust_is_pending_delete defaults entry, or the -Ea option.
In this case, CTRL-Middle makes the selection not pending-
delete.

Commands that operate on the primary selection do so even if the
primary selection is not in the window that issued the command.

Inserting Text and Command Characters
For the most part, typing any of the standard keys either inserts the
corresponding character at the insertion point, or erases characters.
However, certain key combinations are treated as commands. Some of the
most useful are:

Command Character Description

Cut-Primary META-X Erases, and moves to the Clipboard, the primary selection.
Find-Primary META-F Searches the text for the pattern specified by the primary
selection or by the Clipboard, if there is no primary selection.
Copy-to-Clipboard META-C Copies the primary selection to the Clipboard.
Paste-Clipboard META-V Inserts the Clipboard contents at the insertion point.
Copy-then-Paste META-P Copies the primary selection to the insertion point (through
the Clipboard).
Go-to-EOF CTRL-RETURN Moves the insertion point to the end of the text, positioning
the text so that the insertion point is visible.

Function Keys
The commands indicated by use of the function keys are:

Command Sun-2|3 Key Description

Stop L1 Aborts the current command.
Again L2 Repeats the previous editing sequence since a
primary selection was made.
Undo L4 Undoes a prior editing sequence.
Front L5 Makes the window completely visible (or
hides it, if it is already exposed).
Copy L6 Copies the primary selection, either to the
Clipboard or at the closest end of the secondary
selection.
Open L7 Makes the window iconic (or normal, if it is already
iconic).
Paste L8 Copies either the secondary selection or the Clipboard at
the insertion point.
Find L9 Searches for the pattern specified by, in order, the
secondary selection, the primary selection, or the Clipboard.
Cut L10 Erases, and moves to the Clipboard, either the primary or
the secondary selection.
Help F1 Produces help text.

Find usually searches the text forwards, towards the end. Holding down
the SHIFT key while invoking Find searches backward through the text,
towards the beginning. If the pattern is not found before the search
encounters either extreme, it “wraps around” and continues from the
other extreme. Find starts the search at the appropriate end of the
primary selection, if the primary selection is in the subwindow that
the search is made in; otherwise it starts at the insertion point,
unless the subwindow cannot be edited, in which case it starts at the
beginning of the text.

CTRL-Find invokes the Find and Replace pop-up frame.

Menu Items
File A pull-right menu item for file operations.

Edit A pull-right menu item equivalent of the editing function
keys. The Edit submenu provides Again, Undo, Copy, Paste,
and Cut (same as function keys L2, L4, L6, L8, and L10).

Display A pull-right menu item for controlling the way text is dis‐
played and line display format.

Find A pull-right menu item for find and delimiter matching opera‐
tions.

Extras A user definable pull-right menu item. The Extras standard
submenu is controlled by /usr/lib/.text_extras_menu, which
has the same format as .rootmenu file. This can be overrid‐
den in two ways:
1) Change the value of the .Xdefaults parameter
text.extrasMenuFilename to the correct file path.
2) Set the environment variable EXTRASMENU to the file
desired.
Note that option 1 overrides option 2 if both are used.
For more information see the DeskSet Environment Refer‐
ence Guide . See also xview(1).

Only those items that are active appear as normal text in the menu;
inactive items (which are inappropriate at the time) are “grayed out”.

User Defined Commands
The file /usr/lib/text_extras_menu specifies filter programs that are
included in the text subwindow Extras pull-right menu item. The file
~/.textswrc specifies filter programs that are assigned to (available)
function keys. These filters are applied to the contents of the pri‐
mary selection. Their output is entered at the caret.

The file /usr/lib/textswrc is a sample containing a set of useful fil‐
ters. It is not read automatically.

FILES
~/.textswrc Specifies bindings of filters to function keys
/usr/lib/text_extras_menu
Specifies bindings of filters for the extras
menu pull-right items
/usr/bin Contains useful filters, including shift_lines
and capitalize.
filename% Prior version of filename is available here
after a Save Current File menu operation
textedit.pid Edited version of filename; generated in
response to fatal internal errors
/tmp/Text* Editing session logs