TILDE(1)

🦋 TILDE(1) — the intuitive terminal text editor 💅

okay bestie, welcome to tilde(1), the manual page for tilde, and no cap this is the cutest little terminal text editor you're ever gonna meet. section one of the manual, iconic behavior fr fr ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

tilde — an intuitive text editor for the console/terminal. that's it, that's the whole vibe check 🎀

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🫶 SYNOPSIS 🫶

tilde [OPTIONS] [FILE[:LINE[:COLUMN]]]...

literally just type tilde and a file and you're in, iykyk 💖

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like, Tilde is a text editor for the console/terminal, right? and the whole thing about it is that it tries to be as intuitive as possible for people who are used to GUI environments like Gnome, KDE and Windows 🪟🍓

for example — and this is the part that makes me feral — the short-cut to copy the current selection is Control+C, and to paste the previously copied text you use Control+V 💅 like. the way that it just works the way your brain already expects. main character energy.

another example bestie: the File menu can be accessed by pressing Meta+F 🔥 genuinely slay.

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

Tilde accepts the following options, and we're listing every single one because we don't gatekeep here:

• -b, --black-white — force Tilde to use black & white mode 🖤🤍 only attributes such as reverse video, underline and bold text will be used to create the interface. this option overrides the setting from the configuration file.
• -c, --color — request that Tilde use color mode 🌈 this option overrides the setting from the configuration file. but heads up — if the terminal does not support color, or does not provide sufficient colors, this option will just be ignored 🙈
• -C config, --config=config — use configuration file config instead of the default configuration file, which is typically ~/.config/tilde/config 📁
• -e encoding, --encoding=encoding — open any files named on the command line using character encoding encoding, instead of the default UTF-8 encoding 🔤
• -h, --help — display a short help message 🫶
• -I, --select-input-method — ask the user to select the input handling method immediately after start-up, as if the user had not previously selected one for the current terminal type 🎛️
• -J, --no-parse-file-position — do not attempt to parse the line and column from the file names passed on the command line. without this option, if the file name ends in a colon followed by a number, or two such numbers, they will be interpreted as the position in the file to jump to 👀 with this option, those colons and numbers will be interpreted as part of the file name instead 🧚
• -P, --no-primary-selection — disable the use of the primary selection mechanism (a.k.a. "middle-button paste") for the external clipboard 📋 this can be useful for using Tilde over SSH connections in combination with a Clipboard Manager, which can result in slow-downs when selecting text 🐌
• -T terminal, --terminal=terminal — set the terminal type to terminal, overriding the TERM environment variable 🖥️
• -V, --version — print version and copyright information 📜
• -x, --no-ext-clipboard — tells Tilde not to attempt to connect to the X11 clipboard ❌📎

little pro tip moment 💜 — to stop Tilde from interpreting file names that start with a dash as options, you can specify a double dash (--), after which Tilde will interpret any following arguments as files to read 📂✨

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💀 BUGS 💀

if you think you have found a bug, please check that you are using the latest version of Tilde <http://os.ghalkes.nl/tilde.html> 🦋 a bugtracker is available at <https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde/issues> 🐛 and when reporting bugs, please include a minimal example that demonstrates the problem — that's the good group-chat etiquette, no cap 🙏

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

G.P. Halkes <tilde@ghalkes.nl> 💌

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright © 2011-2016,2018 G.P. Halkes

Tilde is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 ⭐ for more details on the license, see the file COPYING in the documentation directory. on Un*x systems this is usually /usr/share/doc/tilde 📖

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okay that's the whole page bestie, go forth and edit your little heart out 💖 this was Tilde version 1.1.3, dated 2018/03/18, and honestly? periodt. 🎀🦋✨