TEA(1)

💖 TEA(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the tea page — that's the man page for tea, a text editor with syntax highlighting and UTF-8 support 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

tea — text editor with syntax highlighting and UTF-8 support 🌸

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🌈 SYNOPSIS 🌈

tea [OPTION …] [FILE …]

like. that's it. that's the whole vibe. options, then files, go off 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

tea is a modest and easy-to-use Qt-based editor with many useful features for HTML editing. she's not trying to be extra, she's just genuinely good at her job 💅

It features:

• a small footprint 🍓
• a tabbed layout engine
• support for multiple encodings
• code snippets
• templates
• customizable hotkeys
• an "open at cursor" function for HTML files and images
• miscellaneous HTML tools
• preview in external browser
• string manipulation functions
• SRT subtitles editing
• Morse-code tools
• bookmarks
• syntax highlighting
• drag-and-drop support

literally the whole package, no cap 😭✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --m — start tea in the multi mode (IDE). main character energy fr fr.
• --p — start tea in the portable mode.
• --charset=charset_name — set the charset for the file to be opened. yes you have to actually say which one bestie, <lavender>charset_name</lavender> is a placeholder 🙈

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💜 EXAMPLES 💜

say you wanna open file1.txt and file2.txt with the window-1251 charset, and then file3.txt with UTF-8? iconic. do this:

$ tea --charset=window-1251 file1.txt file2.txt --charset=utf-8 file3.txt

see how the charset can switch mid-command? the way that works is so slay 🌟

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

tea was written by Peter Semiletov peter.semiletov@gmail.com. 🫶

This manual page was written by Lior Kaplan kaplan@debian.org, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). 💖

It was updated and converted to AsciiDoc by Dr. Tobias Quathamer toddy@debian.org. ✨

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okay that's the whole page bestie, go open some files and eat 💅🔥

tea · 2024-09-30 · that's the source and the date, mwah 💋 periodt