NE(1)

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version 3.3.4 · 2 versions
  • 3.3.4 · debian bookworm, debian trixie, epel 9, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking (latest)
  • 3.3.1 · ubuntu jammy
, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, epel 9, fedora 43, fedora 44, nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 NE(1) — the nice editor, bestie edition 💖

okay so real talk: this is the manual page for ne, from the General Commands Manual section of your friendly neighbourhood Unix docs. Buckle up, we're doing this. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

ne — a nice editor. That's it, that's the whole name. Iconic behaviour, honestly. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ne [options] files

And the options, in all their glory:

[--help] [--] [+[N[,M]]] [--binary] [--read-only] [--utf8]
[--no-utf8] [--ansi] [--no-ansi] [--no-config] [--no-syntax]
[--prefs ext] [--keys key-configuration-file] [--menus
menu-configuration-file] [--macro macro-file]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

ne is a free text editor that runs on (hopefully, like, almost) any UN*X machine. 🫶 It's easy peasy for the beginner bestie, but also powerful and fully configurable for the wizard girlies — and it's most sparing in its resource usage, which is the polite way of saying it does NOT eat your RAM for breakfast. 👑

⚠️ Heads up, queen: this documentation is incomplete. The Texinfo/info/HTML/PDF documentation is the authoritative source — try info ne or info -f ne. iykyk 📖

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --help — prints a help message. that's it. she's helpful, she's simple. 💖
  • -- — the next token is a filename. May appear more than once. (so she's flexible, we love that for her ✨)
  • +[N[,M]] — moves to the last line, or the N-th line, and the first column, or the M-th column, of the next named file. May appear more than once. 📍
  • --binary — loads the next named file in binary mode. May appear more than once. 🧬
  • --read-only — loads the next file in read-only mode. May appear more than once. 🙈 (no editing, we're just looking, respectfully)
  • --utf8 — use UTF-8 I/O. 🌈
  • --no-utf8 — do NOT use UTF-8 I/O. 🚫
  • --ansi — use the built-in ANSI sequences. 🎨
  • --no-ansi — never, ever use the built-in ANSI sequences. periodt. 💅
  • --no-config — skip reading the menu and keyboard configuration files. 🚫📄
  • --no-syntax — disables syntax-highlighting support. (the colours leave the chat 😭)
  • --prefs ext — sets autoprefs for the provided extension before loading the first file. 🧚
  • --keys key-configuration-file — uses the specified keyboard configuration file. ⌨️
  • --menus menu-configuration-file — uses the specified menu configuration file. 📋
  • --macro macro-file — executes the given macro after startup. 🔥

💜 USAGE 💜

Start ne, then hit escape, escape-escape or F1 to access the menus. That's the whole vibe check. Go off. 👑

🐛 BUGS 🐛

Found a bug? Please send bug reports to Sebastiano Vigna <vigna@di.unimi.it> or Todd Lewis <utoddl@gmail.com>. They wanna hear it, fr fr. 💌

👑 AUTHORS 👑

ne was originally written by Sebastiano Vigna. Todd M. Lewis added several new features. Daniele Filaretti helped with syntax highlighting. the girlies really built this together and we're obsessed. 🫶🌸

okay that's the whole page, bestie!! this manual comes to you courtesy of Sebastiano Vigna and Todd M. Lewis, and it lives in the General Commands Manual section as NE(1). no date on this one, she's timeless. 💖✨ go open ne, you're gonna slay. 🎀💅

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