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NAME

       ~/.curves - CurVeS preferences file

SYNOPSIS

       ~/.curves

DESCRIPTION

       In  the  user’s home directory, the .curves file configures preferences
       for the CurVeS UI to CVS version control.  The hash character  ’#’  all
       characters  that follow up to the end of line are ignored.  Blank lines
       are ignored, too.  The significant lines in the file have the format of

       <variable> = <value>

       where  the  variable identifier contains no whitespace and the value is
       either a decimal number, a hexadecimal number  prefixed  by  0x,  or  a
       string  comprised of the first non-whitespace character after the equal
       sign and all characters up to the end of the line.

       In addition, boolean options may take any of the  strings  "yes",  "y",
       "yep", "true", "t" for a truth value and "no", "nope", "n", "false", or
       "f" for a false value.

PREFERENCE ITEMS

       ColorScheme                   1
              Defines a color scheme for coding the file listing.   The  color
              coding  provides a redundant description of file status.  Scheme
              0 looks good on the Linux console.  Scheme 1 is  better  for  X-
              Windows XTerms.  Scheme 2 is monochrome.

       CommitCommentEditor           line
              Specifies  the  name/method  of  entering commit comments.  This
              option may take any of the values "line"  to  use  the  standard
              single  line  edit,  "builtin"  which *will eventually* invoke a
              simple windowed  editor,  "editor"  to  use  the  default  user-
              specified editor, or "cvs" to use whatever method is defined for
              CVS.

       Debug                         0
              When non-zero, this option enables trace  debug  output.   Trace
              information   is  written  to  the  file  named  by  the  option
              DebugOutput.

       DebugOutput ./log
              Pathname of file where trace debug output will be written.   The
              Debug  option  controls  whether  or  not  trace  information is
              written to this log file.

       DebugTimestamps               none
              Describes the method, if any, of timestamping trace debug output
              messages.  This option may take any of the values "tod" for time
              of day, "relative" for a measure of the time elapsed  since  the
              previous trace message, or "none".

       Editor                        $(EDITOR) or $(VISUAL) or vi
              Describes  the  editor  used to edit the configuration file from
              the File->Options command.

       InhibitAltCharset             yes
              Inhibits the  use  of  the  termcap/terminfo  defined  alternate
              characterset  for drawing lines and corners.  Define this to use
              ASCII characters instead of the alternate character set.  If the
              termcap/terminfo  record  doesn’t  define an alternate character
              set, ASCII will be used anyway.

       SenseBinaryFiles              yes
              Enables the automatic  determination  of  new  files  as  either
              binary  of text.  When disabled new files are marked as Text but
              this designation  may  be  changed  with  the  CVS->BinaryToggle
              command.

       Sort                          ca
              Defines  the  default  sort  order for files within a directory.
              Each letter corresponds to the sort keys in descending order  of
              importance.   This  sort  order  may  be changed for the current
              CurVeS session by using the Sort command.

              The keys are as follows:

              a    sort alphabetically without regard  to  case.   Thus  ’AXE’
                   sorts after ’abe’.

              A    sort alphabetically according to ASCII lexical order.  Thus
                   ’AXE’ sorts before ’abe’.

              c    sort by file classification mark.  The order of these marks
                   is   defined   internally   to  CurVeS  and  is  from  most
                   interesting to least interesting.  Source controlled  files
                   are more interesting than uncontrolled files.  Edited files
                   are more interesting that unedited, added, removed, or out-
                   of-sync files.

              n    sort newest files first.

              o    sort oldest files first.

              l    sort  longest  files  first,  those  with the greatest file
                   size.

              s    sort shortest files first, those  with  the  smallest  file
                   size.

       cvs                           cvs
              Sets  the name of the local cvs program.  This is the exact name
              given to the operating system when executing CVS.   The  program
              must  be  either be in the path, or the name must be an absolute
              path.  To enable compression for client/server connections,  add
              the -z# switch to this preference, e.g. "cvs -z9".

       cvs_server
              Sets  the  name  of the CVS server program used to access remote
              repositories via rsh.  This preference overrides the environment
              variable  CVS_SERVER.  The default value is a blank string which
              will not override the environment variable.  It is best  to  use
              the  environment  variable  instead  of using this preference so
              that the CVS command line operates correctly.  This  preferences
              tends to be most useful when debugging CurVeS.

       more                          more
              Sets  the  name  of  the local pager program.  This is the exact
              name given to the operating system when using more.  The program
              must  be  either be in the path, or the name must be an absolute
              path.  The pager is used when showing CVS command output to  the
              user.  The program must act like a filter.

AUTHOR

       Marc Singer <elf@debian.org>

SEE ALSO

       curves(1)