te.1

.TH TE 1 "Nov 12, 1993"
.SH NAME
te -- the TECO text editor
.SH SYNOPSIS
te [filename]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
te(1) is an implementation of TECO in portable C.  It implements DEC standard TECO, with some exceptions and extensions described
below.

te assumes a VT100-type terminal, and its display
driver is hard-coded for such.
.SH DOCUMENTATION
The DEC Standard TECO book describes the basic editing
functions of TECO.  teco.doc describes the differences
between te and standard TECO, including the extensions
for the Ultrix environment.
.SH FILES
.TP 10
~/.tecorc
editor startup file
.TP 10
<file>.tmp
temporary output file(s)
.TP 10
<file>.bak
previous version of edited file
.TP 10
/etc/termcap
describes terminal (used only to find width of VT100)
.SH AUTHOR
Matt Fichtenbaum, GenRad Inc., Concord, Mass.  Portability hacks by
Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>.
.SH BUGS
te's file name processing doesn't handle ~ and other
shell meta-characters.  The wildcard function EN does
handle these.
.PP
te acquires memory for its buffer using malloc(), but
never returns the space.  This can cause the task in
memory to appear to be larger than it is.
.PP
Several of the standard display features of TECO, most
notably the -256+n:W command used by interpretive editing
macros, are unimplemented.  There are undoubtedly some
subtle bugs in the display handler for the features that
are implemented.