NAME

 Minimum Profit - Programmer text editor

SYNOPSIS

 mp [options] [file [file...]]

DESCRIPTION

Minimum Profit (mp) is a text editor for programmers. Among its features are the following:

OPTIONS

The following options are avaiable:

-t tag
Edits the file where tag is defined (see ctags(1)).
-w column
Sets word wrapping to column. By default, no word wrapping is done.
-ts number
Sets visual tab size. By default is 8.
-ai
Activates automatic indentation. Disabled by default.
-l lang
Selects text messages and menus to lang language. Run mp --help to see a list of available languages. By default, the LANG language variable is tested and used if the language is available, falling back to english otherwise.
-m mode
Forces a syntax highlight mode. Run mp --help to see a list of available syntax highlight modes. By default, mode is autodetected for each open file.
--col80
Marks column # 80 in a different color.
-bw
Starts in black and white (monochrome) mode.
-tx
Start in text mode (instead of GUI). By default, GUI modes (if support for any of them is compiled in) are tested first and used if the environment is suitable (by connecting to an Xserver, for example). This option forces the usage of text modes only.
-sp
Enable spellchecking. The ispell package should be installed and correctly configured.
-h
Shows a brief help screen.

The following options are available for the curses interface:

-hw
Activates 'hardware cursor'. By default, current cursor position is only marked with color. Setting this function the 'blinking' hardware cursor will be used. Probably useful only on real text console (not in graphical terminal emulators).
--mouse
Activates mouse usage for cursor positioning. Mouse support is only available if compiled with the ncurses library. Enabling this option will allow cursor positioning with the left mouse button and beginning / end of block marking with the right one.
-nt
Disable transparent mode. Only for terminal emulators.

The following options are available for the GTK interface:

--geometry geospec
Sets the window geometry as an X11 geometry spec, in the format WxH[+X+Y].

AUTHOR

Minimum Profit has been written by Angel Ortega <angel@triptico.com> with the help of others (see the AUTHORS file for a complete list).

FILES

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

SEE ALSO

ctags(1).

mprc.sample and mprc-win32.sample for configuration file examples.

AUTHORS, README, README.IRIX, README.mingw32, README.solaris and README.zaurus.

Home page: http://www.triptico.com/software/mp.html

Mailing list: mp-subscribe@lists.triptico.com

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

See the GNU General Public License for more details.