smalledit1

Usage

smalledit [options] [[+<line>] [<path>/]<file>] ...

Overview

This is a stripped down version of Cooledit which is smaller than the original. See cooledit.1 for full documentation. Only a few of cooledit's commandline options are supported by smalledit.

Options

-d, -display <display>

The X server and display you would like to display to.

-f, -fn, -font <font-name>

The font you would like to use.

-i, --international-characters

Display international (i.e. non-US) characters. Default: treat characters above 127 as non-printable binary characters.

--word-wrap <length>

The maximum length of a line. See the next two options.

--type-writer

The options causes a newline to be inserted when the line you are typing becomes longer than --word-wrap length.

--auto-paragraph

This is a more advanced form of the option above: it causes the entire paragraph to be reformatted with each edit of a paragraph. See WORD PROCESSOR MODE in cooledit(1).

-spell, --spell-checking

Enable on the fly spell checking with red wavy lines under misspelled words.

-t, -tab, --tab-spacing <spacing>

Interpret the tab character as being the length of <spacing> characters. Default is 8.

-h, -H, -?, --help

Print out commandline options summary.

-V, -v, --version

Print out version number.