1 Introduction
ne
is a full screen text editor for UN*X (or, more
precisely, for POSIX: see Motivations and Design). I came to
the decision to write such an editor after getting completely sick of
vi
, both from a feature and user interface point of view. I
needed an editor that I could use through a telnet
connection or
a phone line and that wouldn’t fire off a full-blown
LITHP1 operating system just to do some editing.
A concise overview of the main features follows:
- three user interfaces: control keystrokes, command line, and menus;
keystrokes and menus are completely configurable;
- syntax highlighting;
- full support for UTF-8 files, including multiple-column characters;
- the number of documents and clips, the dimensions of the display, and
the file/line lengths are limited only by the integer size of the machine;
- simple scripting language where scripts can be generated via an
idiotproof record/play method;
- unlimited undo/redo capability (can be disabled with a command);
- automatic preferences system based on the extension of the file name being
edited;
- automatic completion of prefixes using words in your documents as dictionary;
- a file requester with completion features for easy file retrieval;
- extended regular expression search and replace à la
emacs
and
vi
;
- a very compact memory model—you can easily load and modify very large files;
- editing of binary files.