QE(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay bestie, welcome to the QE(1) page — General Commands Manual energy, but make it group chat. This is all about QEmacs (qemacs), a tiny full-screen editor. It's targetted at embedded systems or debugging, but do not let the tinyness fool you: it has some genuinely interesting features that even big editors lack. fr fr. 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

run it like this:

qe [options] file...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

qemacs is a tiny editor targetted at embedded systems or debugging. Even though it's very small, it has some very interesting features that even big editors lack:

• Full screen editor with an Emacs look and feel — it's got all the Emacs common features: multi-buffer, multi-window, command mode, universal argument, keyboard macros, a config file with C like syntax, and a minibuffer with completion and history. the way that list just keeps going? iconic. 👑
• Big-file energy without the slowdown — it can edit files of hundreds of Megabytes without being slow by using a highly optimized internal representation and by mmaping the file. yes bestie, hundreds of Megabytes. 🔥
• Full UTF8 support — including bidirectional editing respecting the Unicode bidi algorithm. Arabic and Indic scripts handling is in progress. 🫶
• C mode — coloring with immediate update, plus Emacs like auto-indent. slay. 💅
• Shell mode — colorized VT100 emulation so that your shell work exactly as you expect. There's also Compile mode with next/prev error. 🐚
• Input methods for most languages — including Chinese. The input methods come from the Yudit editor. 🧚
• Hexadecimal editing mode — with insertion and block commands. Unicode hexa editing of UTF8 files is also supported. 🔥
• Works on any VT100 terminals without termcap — UTF8 VT100 support is included with double width glyphs. 💅
• X11 support — support multiple proportionnal fonts at the same time (as XEmacs). X Input methods supported. Xft extension supported for anti aliased font display. 👑

For more information and a list of key bindings, please see /usr/share/doc/qemacs/README.gz. iykyk. 📖

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

shoutout to Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <edmundo@rano.org>, who wrote this manual page for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). 🫶

💖 that's the whole QE(1) page, bestie — from the General Commands Manual, dated October 21, 2001. periodt. 💖