ne(1)

ne1

A nice editor

Usage

ne [options] files

Overview

ne is a free text editor that runs on (hopefully almost) any UN*X machine. ne is easy to use for the beginner, but powerful and fully configurable for the wizard, and most sparing in its resource usage.

This documentation is incomplete. The Texinfo/info/HTML/PDF documentation is the authoritative source (try info ne or info -f ne).

Options

--help

Prints a help message.

--

Next token is a filename. May appear more than once.

+[N[,M]]

Moves to the last or N-th line, first or M-th column of the next named file. May appear more than once.

--binary

Load the next named file in binary mode. May appear more than once.

--read-only

Load the next file in read-only mode. May appear more than once.

--utf8

Use UTF-8 I/O.

--no-utf8

Do not use UTF-8 I/O.

--ansi

Use the built-in ANSI sequences.

--no-ansi

Never use the built-in ANSI sequences.

--no-config

Skip reading the menu and keyboard configuration files.

--no-syntax

Disable syntax-highlighting support.

--prefs ext

Set autoprefs for the provided extension before loading the first file.

--keys key-configuration-file

Use the specified keyboard configuration file.

--menus menu-configuration-file

Use the specified menu configuration file.

--macro macro-file

Execute the given macro after startup.

Usage

Start ne, then use escape, escape-escape or F1 to access the menus.

Bugs

Please send bug reports to Sebastiano Vigna <[email protected]> or Todd Lewis <[email protected]>.

Authors

ne was originally written by Sebastiano Vigna. Todd M. Lewis added several new features. Daniele Filaretti helped with syntax highlighting.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 6 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1–5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7
  5. 8–9
  6. 10–11
  7. 12–13

-- since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --binary since Debian 7 (Wheezy); --help since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --no-ansi since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --no-config since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --no-syntax since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --no-utf8 since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --prefs since Debian 10 (Buster); --read-only since Debian 10 (Buster); --utf8 since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

--noansi until Debian 3.0 (Woody); --noconfig until Debian 3.0 (Woody).

From ne 3.3.3-1 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.