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authorcharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-04-19 23:44:58 +0000
committercharnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>2002-04-19 23:44:58 +0000
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Use `The .Nm utility'
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diff --git a/usr.bin/ee/ee.1 b/usr.bin/ee/ee.1
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@@ -17,13 +17,14 @@
.Op +#
.Op Ar
.Sh DESCRIPTION
-The command
+The
.Nm
+utility
is a simple screen oriented text editor. It is always in text insertion
mode unless there is a prompt at the bottom of the terminal, or a
-menu present (in a box in the middle of the terminal). The command
+menu present (in a box in the middle of the terminal). The
.Nm ree
-is the same as
+utility is the same as
.Nm ,
but restricted to editing the named
file (no file operations, or shell escapes are allowed).
@@ -383,8 +384,9 @@ run on the file, and the file read back in once
has completed making changes to the file.
.Ss "Printing the contents of the editor"
The user may select a menu item which prints the contents of the editor.
+The
.Nm
-pipes the text in the editor to the command specified by the
+utility pipes the text in the editor to the command specified by the
initialization command
.Em printcommand
(see the section
@@ -544,8 +546,9 @@ supported materials.
Always make a copy of files that cannot be easily reproduced before
editing. Save files early, and save often.
.Ss "International Code Set Support"
-.Nm Ee
-supports single-byte character code sets (eight-bit clean), or the
+The
+.Nm
+utility supports single-byte character code sets (eight-bit clean), or the
Chinese Big-5 code set. (Other multi-byte code sets may function, but the
reason Big-5 works is that a two-byte character also takes up two columns on
the screen.)
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