skkfep(1N)

NAME
skkfep - SKK-like Kana-to-Kanji FrontEnd Processor

USAGE
skkfep [options]

DESCRIPTION
skkfep is a tool to input Kana and Kanji from the terminal. It invokes user's default shell unless -e option is specified.

OPTIONS

-okanjicode
    Specifies the output kanji code. kanjicode is one of the following:

    euc EUC (or DEC code).

    sj  MS-Kanji (Shift-JIS) code.

    jisIO
        JIS code. I and O are characters which represent kanji/ASCII escape sequences respectively. For kanji sequence, A, @ (ESC $ @) or B (ESC $ B) can be specified; for ASCII sequence, H (ESC ( H), J (ESC ( J) or B (ESC ( B) can be specified. If the IO characters are omitted, the characters default to BB.

-fkanjicode
    Specifies the file IO kanji code.

-udic dictionary
    Specifies the user dictionary file. Default is $HOME/.skk-jisyo.

-bs Toggle BS behavior when the file IO kanji code is JIS; the meaning of this option changes according to the configuration when this program was compiled. If you feel troublesome with the behavior of BS code, try this option.

-lm mode
    Choose the mode of learning words got from skk server. mode is one of following:

    none or off or 0
        Do not learn the words at all.

    temporal or 1
        Learn the words while the skkfep process is alive, but do not record the learned information.

    permanent or 2
        Learn the words and record them on the user dictionary.

-P  Preserve the input kana string for kana-kanji conversion when the conversion fails.

-kchar
    Specify the kanji toggle key. A control character is expressed as ^ followed by an alphabet (for example, ^j). Default is ^J.

-esc
    With this option, ESC key becomes `RETUEN-TO-SKK-MODE' key. This option is useful for vi-users.

-viesc
    With this option, ESC key becomes `RETUEN-TO-SKK-MODE' key and one of i, a, o, I, A, S, and R key restores the last mode.

-emacsesc
    With this option, control characters go though to the shell and disable conversion temporarily.

-rs Reverse status line.

-e command
    Specify the program which is invoked by skkfep. If this option is omitted, skkfep invokes the default shell.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE

SKKSERVER
    Specifies the host at which skkserv is running.

BUGS
Word registration is not supported yet.

RELATED INFORMATION
script(1)

AUTHOR
Akinori Ito (aito@ecip.tohoku.ac.jp), Yutaka Kaneko (kaneko@rcais.tohoku.ac.jp) and Masatoshi Watanabe (watanabe@material.tohoku.ac.jp)

COPYRIGHT NOTICE
(C) Copyright 1992,1993 by Akinori ITO, Yutaka KANEKO and Masatoshi WATANABE
You may freely use, copy, modify and distribute this software. This software is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program is with you.