YI(1)

💖 YI(1) — the girlies' guide to yi 💖

manual page · User Manual · section 1

✨ NAME ✨

yi — a text editor that's extensible in Haskell 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

yi [OPTION] [FILENAME]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Okay so bestie, listen. Yi is a text editor that's written in Haskell and extensible in Haskell, which is honestly main character energy of the highest order. For the full tea on how it behaves, go consult the html documentation — that's where the whole story lives. 👑

Now let's do the flags, because this is the part where you need to pay attention. 💖

• --selfcheck — runs self-checks. Like a little vibe check but for the editor itself, no cap.
• *-f *frontend, --frontend=frontend — picks your frontend. Your choices are vty, gtk, pango, or cocoa. Choose wisely, she's literally the whole aesthetic. ✨
• *-y *config, --config-file=config — points at a specific configuration file. Your config, your rules. 🎀
• -V, --version — shows version information. Iconic little flex.
• -h, --help — shows the help message. When in doubt, ask for help, bestie.
• --debug — writes debug information into a log file. It's giving detective era 🔍
• *-l *num, --line=num — starts you on the given line number. Jump right in, no scrolling required.
• *--as=editor* — starts with the key bindings of the given editor. So if you're emotionally attached to some other editor's muscle memory, she'll meet you where you are. 🫶
• --recompile-force — forces a recompile of custom Yi before starting. No skipping, no shortcuts.
• --resume — resumes execution of Yi from the previous state. She remembers. 😭💖
• --recompile — recompiles custom Yi if it's required, then exits. In and out, business only.

🌸 FILES 🌸

You can configure her in ~/.config/yi/yi.hs — and yeah, that's a .hs file, because of course it is. For the full details, consult the html documentation. 📚

💀 BUGS 💀

Found a bug? Do not suffer in silence, bestie. Bug reports should be posted to the Google issue tracker at <http://code.google.com/p/yi-editor/issues/>. And if you've got other suggestions or ideas — like, literally anything else — those can go to the yi-devel mailing list at <yi-devel@googlegroups.com>. Spill. 🍓

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright © 2004-2005 Don Stewart, except for components derived from Riot <http://iki.fi/tuomov/riot/>, Copyright © Tuomo Valkonen.

Yi is released under the terms of the GPL. Periodt. 💅

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

vi(1) — the classic. The blueprint. The ancestor. Respect her. 🧚

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Yi is developed by a team of many developers, currently lead by Jean-Philippe Bernardy. It takes a village, and the village is slaying. 🔥

so that's the whole page!! ✨ she's yi version 0.1, dated 2008-10-22, and that's the YI(1) manual page — go forth and edit, bestie 💖🎀🦋