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celvis, cex, cvi, cview, cinput - The Chinese editor
SYNOPSIScelvis [flags] [+cmd] [files...]
DESCRIPTION
Elvis is a text editor which emulates vi/ex. Celvis is a Chinese ver‐
sion of elvis. It should run on top of some Chinese terminal or Chi‐
nese system, such as cxterm in X11 window system. This version sup‐
ports both GB encoding and Big5 encoding Chinese text.
On systems which pass the program name as an argument, such as Unix and
Minix, you may also install celvis under the names "cex", "cvi",
"cview", and "cinput". These extra names would normally be links to
celvis; see the "ln" shell command.
When celvis is invoked as "cvi", it behaves exactly as though it was
invoked as "celvis". However, if you invoke celvis as "cview", then
the readonly option is set as though you had given it the "-R" flag.
If you invoke celvis as "cex", then celvis will start up in the colon
command mode instead of the visual command mode, as though you had
given it the "-e" flag. If you invoke celvis as "cinput" or "cedit",
then celvis will start up in input mode, as though the "-i" flag was
given.
OPTIONS-r To the real vi, this flag means that a previous edit should be
recovered. Celvis, though, has a separate program, called
virec(1), for recovering files. When you invoke celvis with -r,
celvis will tell you to run virec.
-R This sets the "readonly" option, so you won't accidentally over‐
write a file.
-t tag This causes celvis to start editing at the given tag.
-e Celvis will start up in colon command mode.
-v Celvis will start up in visual command mode.
-i Celvis will start up in input mode.
+command
If you use the +command parameter, then after the first file is
loaded command is executed as an EX command. A typical example
would be "celvis +237 foo", which would cause celvis to start
editing foo and then move directly to line 237.
FILES
/tmp/elv*
During editing, celvis stores text in a temporary file. For
UNIX, this file will usually be stored in the /tmp directory,
and the first three characters will be "elv". For other sys‐
tems, the temporary files may be stored someplace else; see the
version-specific section of the documentation.
tags This is the database used by the :tags command and the -t
option. It is usually created by the ctags(1) program.
.exrc or elvis.rc
On UNIX-like systems, a file called ".exrc" in your home direc‐
tory is executed as a series of ex commands. A file by the same
name may be executed in the current directory, too. On non-UNIX
systems, ".exrc" is usually an invalid file name; there, the
initialization file is called "elvis.rc" instead.
SEE ALSOctags(1), ref(1), virec(1), cxterm(1)
Elvis - A Clone of Vi/Ex, the complete elvis documentation.
BUGS
There is no LISP support. Certain other features are missing, too.
Auto-indent mode is not quite compatible with the real vi. Among other
things, 0^D and ^^D don't do what you might expect.
Long lines are displayed differently. The real vi wraps long lines
onto multiple rows of the screen, but celvis scrolls sideways.
AUTHOR
Steve Kirkendall
kirkenda@cs.pdx.edu
...uunet!tektronix!psueea!eecs!kirkenda
Many other people have worked to port elvis to various operating sys‐
tems. To see who deserves credit, run the :version command from within
celvis, or look in the system-specific section of the complete documen‐
tation.
The Chinese version, celvis, is developed by Man-Chi Pong (now with the
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, HK. E-mail:
mcpong@uxmail.usthk.hk) and Yongguang Zhang (Purdue University, e-mail:
ygz@cs.purdue.edu).
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