tilde - an intuitive text editor for the console/terminal
tilde [OPTIONS]
[FILE[:LINE[:COLUMN]]]...
Tilde is a text editor for the console/terminal, which
tries to be as intuitive as possible for users who are accustomed to GUI
environments such as Gnome, KDE and Windows. For example, the short-cut to
copy the current selection is Control-C, and to paste the previously copied
text the short-cut Control-V can be used. As another example, the File menu
can be accessed by pressing Meta-F.
Tilde accepts the following options:
- -b,
--black-white
- Force Tilde to use black & white mode. Only attributes such as
reverse video, underline and bold text will be used to create the
interface. This option overrides the setting from the configuration
file.
- -c, --color
- Request Tilde to use color mode. This option overrides the setting
from the configuration file. If the terminal does not support color, or
does not provide sufficient colors, this option will be ignored.
- -C config,
--config=config
- Use configuration file config instead of the default configuration
file, which is typically ~/.config/tilde/config.
- -e encoding,
--encoding=encoding
- Open any files named on the command line using character encoding
encoding, instead of the default UTF-8 encoding.
- -h, --help
- Display a short help message.
- -I,
--select-input-method
- Ask the user to select the input handling method immediately after
start-up, as if the user had not previously selected one for the current
terminal type.
- -J,
--no-parse-file-position
- Do not attempt parse the line and column from the file names passed on the
command line. Without this option, if the file name ends in a colon
followed by a number, or two such numbers, they will be interpreted as the
position in the file to jump to. With this option, those colons and
numbers will be interpreted as part of the file name.
- -P,
--no-primary-selection
- Disable the use of the primary selection mechanism (a.k.a.
"middle-button paste") for the external clipboard. This can be
useful for using Tilde over SSH connections in combination with a
Clipboard Manager which can result in slow-downs when selecting text.
- -T terminal,
--terminal=terminal
- Set the terminal type to terminal, overriding the TERM environment
variable.
- -V, --version
- Print version and copyright information.
- -x,
--no-ext-clipboard
- Tells Tilde not to attempt to connect to the X11 clipboard.
To stop Tilde from interpreting file names that start with
a dash as options, one can specify a double dash (--) after which
Tilde will interpret any following arguments as files to read.
If you think you have found a bug, please check that you are using
the latest version of Tilde <http://os.ghalkes.nl/tilde.html>.
A bugtracker is available at
<https://github.com/gphalkes/tilde/issues>. When reporting bugs,
please include a minimal example that demonstrates the problem.
G.P. Halkes <tilde@ghalkes.nl>
Copyright © 2011-2016,2018 G.P. Halkes
Tilde is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
For more details on the license, see the file COPYING in the documentation
directory. On Un*x systems this is usually /usr/share/doc/tilde.