MP-5(1)

💖 NAME 💖

mp-5 — Minimum Profit Editor, literally a text editor for programmers ✨

(Marketing name: Minimum Profit, nn mp for short. Say it with me: em-pee-five. Iconic. 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mp-5 [options] [+NNN] [file [file...]]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so bestie, Minimum Profit (mp) is a text editor for programmers, and it is giving main character energy. Here's the vibe check on what it brings to the group chat:

• Fully scriptable using a C-like scripting language. Yes. It's that girl. 💅
• Unlimited undo levels. No cap — you literally cannot run out of oops-ies. 😭
• Complete Unicode support. All the emoji, all the scripts, all of it. 🌈
• Multiple files can be edited at the same time and blocks copied and pasted among them. Multitasking queen behavior. 👑
• Syntax highlighting for many popular languages / file formats: C, C++, Perl, Shell Scripts, Ruby, Php, Python, HTML... she knows them all, she's not picking favorites (jk she is). ✨
• Creative use of tags: tags created by the external utility ctags are used to move instantaneously to functions or variables inside your current source tree. Like teleportation but for code. 🧚 Tags are visually highlighted (underlined), and symbol completion can be triggered to avoid typing your own function names over and over. Your wrists will thank you, fr fr. 🫶
• Intelligent help system: pressing F1 over any word of a text being edited triggers the underlying system help (calling man when editing C or Shell files, perldoc with Perl, ri on Ruby, winhelp on MS Windows...). She just knows things. 💀
• Understandable interface: drop-down menus, reasonable default key bindings. No mysterious arcane rituals required. 🎀
• Configurable keys, menus and colors. Make it yours. 💜
• Text templates can be easily defined / accessed. ✨
• Multiplatform: Console (curses and ANSI), Qt4, GTK+, KDE4, MS Windows. Everywhere. She's everywhere. 🌍
• Automatic indentation, word wrapping, internal grep, learning / repeating functions. 🔥
• Spellchecking support (via the ispell package). 🍓
• Multilingual. 🌸
• Password-protected, encrypted text files (using the ARCFOUR algorithm). Secretive. Mysterious. Locked down. 🔐
• It helps you abandon vi, emacs and other six-legged freaks definitely. 😭 periodt.

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

The following options are available (oh and btw the original page spells it "avaiable" — we don't gatekeep typos here, love that for her 🫶):

• -t tag — Edits the file where tag is defined (see ctags(1)). Jump straight to the spot, no scrolling bestie. 🦋
• -e mpsl_code — Executes MPSL code. Run it right there. 💅
• -f mpsl_script — Executes an MPSL script. Whole file of it. ✨
• -d directory — Changes working directory. A little relocation moment. 🎀
• -x file — opens file in the hexadecimal viewer. Hex mode! Very demure, very binary. 👑

Plus, not technically a flag but on the list:

• NNN — Moves to line number NNN of last file. (That's the +NNN from the synopsis, iykyk.) ⭐

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🧚 MPSL 🧚

MPSL (Minimum Profit Scripting Language) is a powerful programming language embedded in the Minimum Profit Text Editor (a huge part of the editor itself is written in MPSL — she wrote herself, that's so meta 😭). Its features are too large to be inserted here; please read the documentation. Fr, go read it. It's worth it. 📖💖

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Minimum Profit has been written by Angel Ortega <angel@triptico.com> with the help of others (see the AUTHORS file for a complete list). Shoutout to the whole squad. 🫶👑

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🍓 FILES 🍓

• /etc/mp.mpsl (system-wide configuration file). 🌍
• ~/.mp.mpsl (user configuration file). 💜
• ~/.mp_templates (user text templates). ✨

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🌈

• HOME (user home directory). 🏠
• LANG, LC_ALL (language settings). 🗣️

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

ctags(1).

The Minimum Profit documentation in /usr/share/doc/mp-5.

AUTHORS, TODO, RELEASE_NOTES and README.

Home page: http://triptico.com/software/mp.html 🌐

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💀 LICENSE 💀

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 💖

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Yeah, no promises, bestie. 🫶

See the GNU General Public License for more details.

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Okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 — this was Minimum Profit(1), straight from the General Commands Manual, and the last vibe check was stamped Mon Feb 26 18:12:30 2018. Slay, go edit some code. 🌸✨🎀