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• vile(1)
  • NAME
  • SYNOPSIS
  • DESCRIPTION
  • SPIRIT
  • OPTIONS
    • COMMON OPTIONS
    • SCREENSIZE OPTIONS
    • X11 OPTIONS
    • OBSOLETE OPTIONS
  • INVOCATION
  • STARTUP
  • COMMANDS
  • RELATED PROGRAMS
    • xvile
    • vile-manfilt
    • Syntax filters
  • UTILITY SCRIPTS
    • vile-libdir-path
    • vile-pager
    • vile-to-html
  • ENCRYPTION
  • ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
  • SEE ALSO
  • DEBTS and CREDITS
  • AUTHORS
  • BUGS
• Getting along with vile
  • General Remarks
  • Command Prefixes
  • Buffer manipulation commands
  • Window manipulation commands
  • File manipulation commands:
  • Shell Access
  • Text manipulation command:
    • Infinite Undo
    • Operators
    • Text insertion
    • Searching
    • Tags
  • Miscellaneous commands
    • Internal State
  • New Registers
  • Completion
  • Arrow keys
  • Rectangular regions
  • Editor modes
    • Flavor: universal modes
    • Flavor: buffer modes
    • Flavor: window modes
    • Flavor: majormodes (later)
    • Current mode settings
    • Modes in detail
  • 8-Bit Operation
    • Output
    • Input
  • Command History
  • Editing the Minibuffer
  • Special Character Expansion
  • Character Classes
  • Key Rebinding
    • Insert mode:
    • Syntax for key-sequences:
    • Function Keys
    • :map, :map!, :noremap, :noremap!
    • :abbr
  • Special "Terminal" Key Rebinding
  • Flow-control
  • Recorded macros
  • Programmed procedures (aka macros)
    • Numbered macros
    • Named macros
    • User-defined Operators
    • Macro Language Elements
    • Variables
    • Functions
    • Directives
    • Hooks
    • Macro examples
    • Picture Mode
  • Regular Expressions
  • Command files
  • Invocation
    • Command line options
  • Encryption
  • Crash Recovery
    • Unix (in priority order)
    • DOS and OS/2
    • All other hosts (in priority order)
  • Mode line customization
  • Color basics
    • Console/standard vile versus GUI vile
    • Color palette
    • xvile custom colors
    • winvile custom colors
    • Display attributes
    • Show-colors command
    • Xterms, terminfo, and termcap (Unix hosts only)
    • Visual matching (VM)
    • Foreground color (FC)
    • Background color (BC)
    • Attribute control sequences (ACS)
    • Syntax coloring (SC)
    • Host capability matrix
  • Syntax coloring
    • Prerequisites
    • Configuration
    • Unix install recipe – root privileges available
    • Unix install recipe – no privileges
    • Manual Recipe – Win32 host
    • Testing the configuration
    • Read-hook
    • Autocolor
    • Changing color/attribute mappings
    • Caution: vile.keywords is a precious file
    • Troubleshooting
    • Attaching/Forcing a buffer's majormode
    • Man pages
    • Spell checking (Unix hosts only)
    • Further reading
  • Setting Extra Colors
  • Majormodes
    • Notes
    • Distinguishing between C/C++ include files
    • cmode: the original vile builtin majormode
  • Filtering "man" pages
  • Working in a project hierarchy
    • Directory navigation
    • Hierarchical tags
    • Exuberant ctags
    • Standard ctags
    • File/Directory traversal (win32/Unix hosts only)
    • Examples (file traversal)
    • Examples (directory traversal)
    • File/directory traversal notes
  • Writing your own filters
  • Hypertext
  • Debugging features
  • X Window System specifics
    • Mouse Buttons
    • Clipboard
    • Scrollbars
    • Standard X command line arguments
    • Additional xvile command line arguments
    • Setting a new process group
    • X Resources
    • Sample .Xdefault entries
    • X11 Fonts
  • DOS specifics
  • VMS specifics
    • Paths
    • Command-Line Switches
    • Modes
    • Variables
    • Default key maps
  • Win32 specifics
    • Heritage
    • GUI Command-Line Switches
    • Console Command-Line Switches
    • Pipes
    • Paths
    • Shell
    • Cygwin's Bash Versus Console vile
    • Mouse (GUI and Console)
    • Winvile Mouse
    • Clipboard
    • OLE Automation
    • Winvile Font
    • Winvile registry settings
    • Winvile Commands
    • Modes
    • Configuring both editors
  • Differences from vi
  • Sample .vilerc
  • Notes on TERM types and Scrolling
  • Credits
  • Where to Get It
  • Problems
  • Online resources
  • Copyright
• Configuring vile and xvile
  • Building vile
  • Screen Types
    • Text Terminal Drivers
    • X Window Drivers
    • Win32 Drivers
  • UTF-8 Support versus Driver
  • Syntax coloring options
    • Fast, simple syntax coloring
    • Slower, simple syntax coloring
    • Complex syntax coloring
  • Building xvile
  • Installing (x)vile
  • Building in a separate directory
  • Building Versioned Executables
  • Locale Support
  • Other Compile-Time Options
  • Testing/Development Options
• Programmed Macros in vile
  • Creating, executing, storing macros
    • Numbered macros (anachronism)
    • Named macros
    • Returning values
    • Storing macros
  • Comments
  • Misc macro syntax features
    • Limits
    • Strings
  • Variables
  • Temporary variables
  • State Variables
  • Mode variables
  • Buffer variables
  • Interactive variables
  • Functions
  • Directives
    • ~endm
    • ~force
    • ~hidden
    • ~quiet
    • ~if, ~elseif, ~else, and ~endif
    • ~goto
    • ~while and ~endwhile
    • ~break
    • ~return
    • ~local
    • ~with, ~elsewith and ~endwith
    • ~trace
  • Editor commands
    • Simple commands
    • Motion commands
    • Operator commands
  • Debugging macros
  • Example startup file
  • Credits
• Major (and minor) modes in Vile
  • Commands
    • Example
    • The "define-majormode" command
    • The "derive-majormode" command
    • The "define-submode" command
    • The "remove-majormode" command
    • The "remove-submode" command
    • Example
  • Credits
• Syntax Highlighting Filters
  • Keywords
  • OPTIONS
  • PROGRAMS
  • NOTE
• XVile Menus
  • Search-Rules
  • Format
  • Example
  • Credits
• Perl Support
  • Credits
• Directory-Browser Perl-extension for Vile
  • Features
  • Details
  • Getting Started
  • Credits
• Vile Server and Session Perl Extension
  • Credits
• OLE Automation Support
  • Build Syntax
  • Minimal Configuration
  • Registration Options
  • Example Automation Client Access
  • wvwrap.exe -- WinVile WRAPper
  • Background
  • Server Properties And Methods
  • Unregistering The Server
  • Credits
• VisVile -- Developer Studio Support
  • Preconditions
  • Installation
  • Configuration Options
  • DevStudio Operations Affected By VisVile
  • Toolbar Icons
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Don't Forget These Details
  • Controlling DevStudio From Winvile
  • Augmenting Winvile Control With DevStudio Macros
  • Uninstalling VisVile
  • Redirectable Virtual Keycode Names (sans VK_ prefix)
  • Known Differences Between VisVile and VisVim
  • Copyright And Acknowledgments