PTEXT(1)

📦 version 0-unstable-2024-08, in nixos 26.05, nixpkgs unstable

💅 PTEXT(1) 💅

okay so this is the man page for ptext, and it lives in the General Commands Manual section of your friendly neighbourhood Unix box. grab a snack, bestie, we're learning an editor 🍓

✨ NAME ✨

ptext — a nano-like text editor built with pure C. that's right, pure C, no cap 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ptext [options] [file]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

ptext is a small text editor — and when I say small I mean it, it's based on kilo — and it edits file. that's the whole vibe. it opens, you type, it's giving "less is more" and honestly? slay 💅

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -v, --version — prints out the version info and then dips, like, immediately exits. iconic behaviour, no follow-up questions ✨

💖 EDITING 💖

editing a file here is genuinely easy, bestie. you start the editor and then you literally just... start typing the letters you want. that's it. that's the tutorial 🫶

you can move around with the arrow keys, and you can delete characters with the backspace key or the delete key. lowkey the whole thing just works 😭

🌈 KEY BINDINGS 🌈

okay this is the important part, screenshot this, iykyk 📸

  • Ctrl+Q — exit ptext. bye bestie 👋
  • Ctrl+S — write the currently open file to the disk. save your work fr fr 💾
  • Ctrl+F — search inside the currently open file 🔍
  • Ctrl+R — search and replace inside the currently open file. glow-up your typos ✨
  • Ctrl+A — jump to the beginning of the line ⬅️
  • Ctrl+E — jump to the end of the line ➡️
  • Ctrl+U — jump to the first line of the currently open file ⬆️
  • Ctrl+D — jump to the last line of the currently open file ⬇️
  • Ctrl+X — delete the whole line the cursor is sitting on. no thoughts, line gone 💀
  • Ctrl+N — enter an editor command ⌨️
  • Ctrl+B — move to the previous buffer 🧚
  • Ctrl+O — move to the next buffer 🧚

💀 BUGS 💀

found a bug? (rude, but okay 🙈) report it at https://github.com/proh14/ptext/issues and the devs will handle it 🫶

👑 AUTHOUR 👑

mainly developed by proh14. you can see the other contributers on the github page at https://github.com/proh14/ptext. also, real talk, this program is based on kilo, which is developed by antirez 💜

BSD 2-Clause License — that's the whole section, bestie 🎀

🌸 HOMEPAGE 🌸

https://github.com/proh14/ptext — go say hi 🦋

🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

ptextrc(5) — yes, there's a whole other page for the config, go read it 🌈

lowkey the most important thing on this page: Ctrl+S saves. everything else is just vibes 🔥

that's the whole page, bestie! this edition landed on LINUX, dated 2024-1-24, and it's the PTEXT(1) page from the General Commands Manual. now go edit something cute 💖✨🎀

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