TURBO(1)

🎀 hey bestie, welcome to the turbo era 🎀

okay so real talk — this page lives in the General Commands Manual under the name turbo, and it's about to be your new favorite terminal toy. buckle up 💅

✨ NAME ✨

turbo — an experimental text editor based on Scintilla and Turbo Vision. that's the whole vibe. no cap. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

turbo [file...]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Turbo is an experimental text editor for the terminal, built on top of the Scintilla code editing component and the Turbo Vision application framework. literally the best of both worlds 🔥

It was created to show off new features in Turbo Vision. more specifically? it's been the testing ground for Turbo Vision's Unicode capabilities. so yeah, it's kind of an icon 👑

As a text editor, Turbo is aiming at being intuitive and easy to use. and just because it's a Turbo Vision application, it comes with a vintage look and feel. retro aesthetic + modern brain = main character energy 🎀

🫶 User interface shortcuts 🫶

• Ctrl+Q, Alt+X — exit Turbo. bye bestie 😭
• Alt+letter — opens the menu that has letter as its shortcut key. like, Alt+F opens the File menu. once a menu is open, you pick entries by pressing their own shortcut key — so Alt+F+U selects the Suspend entry in the File menu. iykyk ✨
• Ctrl+N — new document.
• Ctrl+O — open file.
• Ctrl+S — save current document. do it. do it often. 🫶
• F2 — rename current file.
• F6, Ctrl+Tab — walk through the document list.
• Shift+F6, Ctrl+Shift+Tab — walk through the document list, but in reverse order. back it up, back it up 🦋
• Alt+Down — select the next document in the tree view.
• Alt+Up — select the previous document in the tree view.

💜 Text edition shortcuts 💜

• Ctrl+A — select all text.
• Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Ins — copy the selection into the clipboard.
• Ctrl+D — duplicate the selection or the current line.
• Ctrl+F — find text.
• Ctrl+R — replace text.
• Ctrl+G — go to line.
• Ctrl+L — delete the current line. poof 💀
• Ctrl+E, Ctrl+/, Ctrl+_ — toggle comment.
• Ctrl+V, Shift+Ins — paste from the clipboard.
• Ctrl+X, Shift+Del — cut the selection.
• Ctrl+Y, Ctrl+Shift+Z — redo.
• Ctrl+Z — undo. the ultimate save 💅
• Ctrl+Left, Alt+Left — move cursor one word left.
• Ctrl+Right, Alt+Right — move cursor one word left.
• Ctrl+Back, Alt+Back — delete one word left.
• Ctrl+Del — delete one word right.
• Shift — extends the selection while the cursor moves.
• Ctrl+Shift+Down, Alt+Shift+Down — move the selected lines down.
• Ctrl+Shift+Up, Alt+Shift+Up — move the selected lines up.
• F3 — find the next match.
• Shift+F3 — find the previous match.

🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

these environment variables affect how Turbo behaves, bestie:

• COLUMNS, LINES — overrides the system-supplied number of terminal columns and columns.
• DISPLAY, WAYLAND_DISPLAY — Turbo will interact with the X11 or Wayland clipboard if it's available. this requires wl-clipboard and xsel or xclip to be installed. 👀
• LANG, LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE — UTF-8 support is only enabled if a UTF-8 locale is in use.

⭐ NOTES ⭐

not all keyboard shortcuts are supported by all terminals. that's just the way it is 😭 for this reason, some commands can be triggered by more than one shortcut. so if one combo ghosts you, try the other one 🧚

🙈 BUGS 🙈

you can report bugs in Turbo's issue tracker: https://github.com/magiblot/turbo/issues. please do, the devs wanna know 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one was dated 4 January 2023, from the General Commands Manual, filed under TURBO(1) — go forth and edit slayfully 👑✨