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Nicholas De Nova d217621649 Correct manpage spacing per roff(7) convention.
roff(7) dictates that "Each sentence should terminate at the end of an
input line." Instead of doing this, Sortix manpages (incorrectly) used
double-spaces to separate sentences.

Additionally, fix a few small typos.
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.Dd $Mdocdate: January 8 2016 $
.Dt EDITOR 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm editor
.Nd text editor
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm editor
.Op Ar file
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is a text editor with basic editing functionality.
It generally behaves like a GUI editor as opposed to common terminal editors.
The file named by the
.Ar file
argument is loaded if specified.
It quits when
.Sy Ctrl-Q
is typed.
.Pp
Text can be selected by holding the
.Sy Shift
key and moving the cursor.
.Pp
It supports these keyboard shortcuts:
.Bl -tag -width "12345768"
.It Sy Ctrl-C
Copy.
.It Sy Ctrl-I
Go to line.
.It Sy Ctrl-K
Cut.
.It Sy Ctrl-O
Open file.
.It Sy Ctrl-Q
Quit.
.It Sy Ctrl-S
Save file.
.It Sy Ctrl-V
Paste.
.El
.Pp
These commands than can be entered after pressing
.Sy ESC
and a colon:
.Bl -tag -width "12345768"
.It Sy language Oo Sy none "|" Sy c "|" Sy c++ "|" Sy diff Oc
Select syntax highlighting.
.It Sy line-numbering Oo Sy on "|" Sy off Oc
Line numbering.
.It Sy margin Ar column-index
Display right margin at
.Ar column-index .
.It Sy popen Ar shell-command
Open new file containing output of running
.Ar shell-command .
.It Sy tabsize Ar tab-size
Select tab size.
.El
.Pp
A subset of these commands can be stored in the
.Xr editor 5
configuration file loaded on
.Nm
startup.
.Sh FILES
.Bl -tag -width "$HOME/.editor" -compact
.It Pa /etc/editor
Global configuration.
.It Pa ~/.editor
User configuration.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr pager 1 ,
.Xr editor 5
.Sh BUGS
.Nm
lacks a number of crucial features, such as undo and redo, ability to open
multiple files at once, and so on.
The syntax highlighting can occasionally be inconsistent.