adie(1)

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version 1.6.59 · 2 versions
, in alpine 3.24, opensuse-leap 16.0

✨ NAME ✨

adie — the ADvanced Interactive Editor, bestie 💖 (yes that's a manual page for a text editor, and yes it's adie(1), general commands manual, sit down and let me tell you everything)

🌸 INTRODUCTION 🌸

Okay so, adie is an extremely fast and extremely convenient programming text editor, written with the FOX Toolkit. And like… not just an editor, okay? She's also an insanely convenient file viewer, with a plethora of methods to hop from one file to the next. Plethora. Say it with me. It's giving multitasking icon.

For every single file you visit, adie remembers where in that file you were last looking 👀 — and which special places in that file you bookmarked — so you can zoom right back to the spots you keep coming back to. No cap, that's the whole vibe.

Project browsing? Made easy, because she can optionally show a File/Directory browser right there beside your text, so files get visited with a single click 💅. And you can also open a file just by highlighting a file name, a compiler warning message, or a #include directive and hitting one (1) single button. Then adie goes hunting for that file in the same directory as an already loaded file, or in a bunch of predefined directories — like, for example, include directories. She's got connections. 🦋

👑 FEATURES 👑

💜 General Features

Preferences are configurable with convenient dialogs. That's it. That's the sentence. Move.

  • Text size only limited by available memory. (unhinged capacity, we love her)
  • Persistent bookmarks may be set for each file.
  • Persistent scroll position is remembered for each visited file.
  • Wheel mouse scroll support.
  • Online help built in.

🎀 File Access Features.

  • File Dialog supporting bookmarked directories.
  • Dropping a file into adie opens the file. (drop it like it's hot 🍓)
  • Single-click access to file using File/Directory browser.
  • Visit recently edited files.
  • Jump to file and line number of highlighted compiler warnings or errors.
  • Customizable list of file patterns; show only source files, for example.
  • Open a file by highlighting a #include directive.
  • Customizable list of directories to search for header files.
  • Detect if file changed outside of editor to prevent accidental overwriting.

🧚 Editing Features.

  • Unlimited undo/redo capability. (unlimited!! go absolutely feral)
  • Cut and paste to clipboard support.
  • X11 primary selection support using middle-mouse paste.
  • Drag-and-drop support for text move or copy.
  • Brace matching, statement block, and expression block selection.
  • Up to 10 persistent bookmarks may be set in each file.
  • Search and replace history is stored persistently.
  • Auto-indent feature.
  • Strip trailing spaces, strip carriage-returns for DOS files.
  • Indent or unindent selected text; clean indentation.
  • Search for highlighted text.
  • Goto line number, goto highlighted line number, goto matching brace, goto begin/end of block.
  • Fixed word wrap column, or continuous word wrap mode.
  • Mouse wheel or right-mouse scroll support.
  • Customizable word-delimiters to select words by double-clicks.
  • Insert files or extract highlighted text to file.

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

This manpage was originally written by Bastian Kleineidam <calvin@debian.org> for the Debian distribution of the FOX Toolkit. Shoutout, legend. 🫶

The main author of FOX is Jeroen van der Zijp <jeroen@fox-toolkit.org>. And for a list of contributors, go peek at /usr/share/doc/libfox0.99/AUTHORS. 👑

And that's the whole page, bestie — adie(1), dated 30 January 2002, straight out of the General Commands Manual. Iconic then, iconic now. Periodt. 💅✨

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