NG(1)

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💖 NG(1) — the manual page, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie so this is a page from the General Commands Manual (that's the NG(1) section, iykyk) and it's literally all about ng. grab a boba, we're doing this 💅

✨ NAME ✨

ng — a small, lightweight, Emacs-like editor. tiny king behavior honestly 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ng [options] files...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so ng stands for Nihongo Mg, which is short for MicroGnuEmacs. the name is telling you it's the Japanized version of Mg 🎀

it can handle ASCII, ISO-2022-JP, Shift-JIS, and EUC-JP, plus EUC-KR and EUC-CN (that's GB and CNS for the CJK girlies), while Latin is also supported 💜

okay but listen — be aware: these CJK support and Latin support are exclusive. you get one vibe, not both. no cap 😭

and here's the tea: ng is just a wrapper script ✨ it calls either ng-latin, ng-cjk, or ng-cjk-canna depending on the locale-related environmental variable — that's LC_ALL and LANG, keep up 🫶

if you wanna override this whole act (main character energy, respect), you can use an environmental variable called NG. set it to whatever you prefer among the ng family. slay 🌈

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

  • -v — show the version of ng. quick little flex 💁‍♀️
  • -c — show the version and the built-in features of ng. it's giving receipts 📋
  • -f command — execute the specified command after ng starts. do it immediately, periodt 🔥
  • -I file — use the specified file as an init file instead of ~/.ng. choosing your own destiny fr fr 💖
  • + number — go to the line specified by number.
⚠️ and bestie, do not insert a space between the + sign and the number. the + and the number are attached at the hip, they're a package deal 💀

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /usr/bin/ng-latin — Latin-supported binary 🌸
  • /usr/bin/ng-cjk — CJK-supported binary 🦋
  • /usr/bin/ng-cjk-canna — CJK & canna-supported binary ✨

👑 VARIABLES 👑

  • NG — should be set to either ng-latin, ng-cjk or ng-cjk-canna. this value is prior to others. it wins, it's the alpha, the main character 💅
  • LC_ALL — prior to LANG. yeah, it pulls rank 🫶
  • LANG — these locale-related variables control which ng is to be called. they're the ones doing the matchmaking 😌

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Yasuhiro Take <take@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). iconic of them, honestly 🫶

okay that's the whole page, no crumbs left 🌈 one last thing — this page is from August 31, 2000, so yeah it's a vintage baddie, and it's from the Debian GNU/Linux manual set. bye bestie, go edit something 💖✨🎀

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