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Tiny (11k on Windows) open source console mode (curses) text editor for Linux, FreeBSD?, SunOS??, and Windows
Author: Mtv Europe
Homepage: http://frox25.no-ip.org/~mtve/code/
Download: http://frox25.no-ip.org/~mtve/code/orig/e-0.993.tar.bz2
Family: TinyEditors, LinuxEditorFamily
License: open source
Availability: Yes
Platform: Windows, Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, SunOS?
e is a minimalist text editor
- inspired by Norton Editor for DOS
- insert/replace mode, block operations with highlighting, find and replace, goto line
- written in C with ncurses, should compile anywhere
- tested with
- FreeBSD 2.2.8-7.2
- RedHat? 6.2
- SunOS? 2.6-10
- Windows using PDCurses (change the header file from ncurses to curses)
- file loaded entirely in memory, you are limited only to what realloc(3) returns
Key Bindings
- characters, Enter, Up, Down, Left, Right, Home, End, PgUp?, PgDn?, Del, Backspace - standard behavior
- ins toggle insert mode
- ^X exit
- ^S save file as
- ^T goto top of text
- ^O goto bottom of text
- ^Y delete current line
- ^Q quote next character (put in text non-printable symbol)
- ^A go to line by number (or beginning of selection if number not specified)
- ^F find string (not regexp, usual string, exact case)
- ^R replace one string by another
- ^N repeat last operation of find or replace
- ^B mark begin of block (you'll see if beginning mark before ending)
- ^E mark end of block
- ^C copy marked block to current position
- ^V move marked block to current position
- ^D delete marked block
- ^P put (write) block in file
- ^G get (load) block from file
- ^J same as PgUp?
- ^K same as PgDn?
Hints
- you can edit binary files because `e' doesn't format anything
- to reset block selection put ending mark before or at beginning mark (^B^E)
- you can convert Dos files (crlf) to Unix (lf) easily: while pressing Ctrl print trqmmmnnnnnnnnn... :)
- and back to Dos: trqjmqmqjmnnn...
- by analogy be careful to Ctrl while printing something like 'tboed'
- there is no autosave or anything like that, so backup your data in time
Bugs
- many operations on every getch: erase() and COLS*LINES addch(), but i don't think its so bad (scrolling is optimised, so on telnet session to 386 i feel the same speed like vi).
- bad documentation, which counts only this file in terrible english without man page, i would be very thankful if someone can write it
Copyrights
- as is, no warranties at all
- you can do with this sources whatever you want, except if you use latest version of this program and found a bug, you must inform me about it