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)