TILDE(1) An intuitive terminal text editor TILDE(1)

NAME

tilde - an intuitive text editor for the console/terminal

SYNOPSIS

tilde [OPTIONS] [FILE[:LINE[:COLUMN]]]...

DESCRIPTION

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.

OPTIONS

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.

BUGS

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.

AUTHOR

G.P. Halkes <tilde@ghalkes.nl>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 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.

1.1.3 2018/03/18 TILDE(1)