NAME

       lpe - Lightweight programmer's editor

SYNOPSIS

       lpe [ --help | --version ]
       lpe [ -- ] file

DESCRIPTION

       This page needs to be translated into Bulgarian!!!

       Lpe  is  a  minimalist, visual, real-time text editor designed to make editing code easier
       without alienating its user from the shell.  It includes abilities  to  search  files  for
       plain  text  and  block cut and paste, along with standard editing capabilities.  It takes
       some inspiration from emacs(1) and pico(1).

   Options
       --help Prints a brief description of program usage and terminates.  This must be the first
              option to lpe, and all other options are ignored.

       --version
              Prints  a  message indication the program version and terminates.  This must be the
              first option to lpe, and all other options are ignored.

       --     Treat future arguments as file names, not options.  This allows lpe to be  used  to
              edit files starting with the - character.

NOTES

       As  mentioned  above, lpe is designed as a minimalist editor, meant to be small and robust
       and efficient, but not to provide too many superfluous  features.   For  this  reason,  it
       should not be difficult to learn to use lpe, provided that one is willing to invest effort
       to learn a few basic keys.

   Command Keys
       Up or Alt-K
              Go to previous line of text

       Down or Alt-J
              Go to next line of text

       Left or Alt-H
              Move cursor left one column

       Right or Alt-L
              Move cursor right one column

       Home or Alt-0
              Move cursor to beginning of line

       End or Alt-$
              Move cursor to end of line

       PageUp or Alt-B
              Scroll one screen up

       PageDn or Alt-F
              Scroll one screen down

       Alt-A  Move cursor to beginning of buffer

       Alt-S  Move cursor to end of buffer

       Ctrl-S Search for a specified string in the file

       Ctrl-K Kill the current line

       Ctrl-Y or Ctrl-U
              Insert the most recent block of killed lines

       Ctrl-T Toggle between hard and soft tab characters

       Ctrl-O Open a new file within the editor

       Ctrl-W Write the buffer to disk

       Ctrl-Q Save to an alternate file

       Ctrl-E Forget modifications to the buffer

       Ctrl-X Write the buffer to disk and exit

       Ctrl-D Perform an internal debug command

       <interrupt>
              Exit without writing to disk

       Ctrl-Z Suspend the editor and escape to a prompt

              <interrupt> refers to your terminal's interrupt key.  This is often Ctrl-C, but can
              vary  between  terminals.   Ctrl-Z,  on the other hand, is fixed, regardless of the
              normal stop key for your terminal.

SEE ALSO

       emacs(1), pico(1)

AUTHOR

       Chris Smith, cd_smith@ou.edu

BUGS

       Lots of 'em -- see the BUGS file in the  distribution  for  a  partial  list.   I  am  not
       planning  on  updating this man page often enough to keep up with the bug list, so I won't
       even try to list bugs here.

                                         12 December 1998                                  LPE(1)