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moe — A WYSIWYG text editor for ISO-8859-15 encoded text. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/

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Problem

How to use the moe command: A WYSIWYG text editor for ISO-8859-15 encoded text. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/moe/moe.html>.

Solution

moe — A WYSIWYG text editor for ISO-8859-15 encoded text. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/moe/moe.html>.

Open moe and create a backup file (file~) when saving edits:

moe {{path/to/file}}

Open a file as read-only:

moe {{[-o|--read-only]}} {{path/to/file}}

Edit a file without creating backups:

moe {{[-B|--no-backup]}} {{path/to/file}}

Edit a file ignoring case in searches:

moe {{[-i|--ignore-case]}} {{path/to/file}}

Save and Quit:

<Ctrl x>

Code Snippets

Open moe and create a backup file (file~) when saving edits

moe {{path/to/file}}

Open a file as read-only

moe {{[-o|--read-only]}} {{path/to/file}}

Edit a file without creating backups

moe {{[-B|--no-backup]}} {{path/to/file}}

Edit a file ignoring case in searches

moe {{[-i|--ignore-case]}} {{path/to/file}}

Save and Quit

<Ctrl x>

Context

tldr-pages: common/moe

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