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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu Prevent xed editor from creating backups Post 303002542 by drl on Sunday 27th of August 2017 07:30:11 AM

08-27-2017

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Hi.

A Google search for man xed turned up many hits, among them: Linux Manpages Online - man.cx manual pages)

which produces:

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NAME

xed − text editor for X
SYNOPSIS

xed [-s] [-p string] [-nb] [-P] [-ttymode] [-fn font]
[-x N] [-nsb] [-help] [-version] [file]
DESCRIPTION

Xed is the standard text editor, conveniently re-written for use in the standard windowing system.

Xed is a completely backward-compatible implementation of the ed line-oriented text editor. See the ed(1) manual page for a description of the basic ed syntax and command set; what follows is a description of the features unique to xed.

OPTIONS

-s

Suppresses diagnostics.

−p string

Specifies a command prompt. This may be toggled on and off with the ’P’ command.

-nb

Turns off automatic file backup. By default, xed will back up a file to filename before writing to that file.
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FPED:(1)						      General Commands Manual							  FPED:(1)

NAME

       fped - Footprint editor

SYNOPSIS

       fped   [-k] [-p|-P [-s scale]] [-T [-T]] [cpp_option ...] [in_file [out_file]]

DESCRIPTION

       fped  is  an editor that allows the interactive creation of footprints of electronic components. Footprint definitions are stored in a text
       format that resembles a programming language.  The language is constrained such that anything that can be expressed in the textual  defini-
       tion  also  has	a straightforward equivalent operation that can be performed through the GUI.  A description of the GUI can be found here:
       http://people.openmoko.org/werner/fped/gui.html

OPTIONS

       -k     write KiCad output, then exit

       -p     write Postscript output, then exit

       -P     write Postscript output (full page), then exit

       -s scale
	      scale factor for -P (default: auto-scale)

       -T     test mode. Load file, then exit

       -T -T  test mode. Load file, dump to stdout, then exit

       cpp_option
	      -Idir, -Dname[=value], or -Uname

       Please report any further bugs at werner@openmoko.org

LICENCE

       fped is covered by the GNU General Public License (GPL), version 2 or later.

AUTHORS

       Werner Almesberger <werner@openmoko.org>

       This manual page was written by Xiangfu Liu <xiangfu@sharism.cc> It is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL (version 2 or later).

								   October 2010 							  FPED:(1)