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:
emacs
and
vi
;
[1] This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of an 's' in its character set; users must substitute 'th'. lithp is said to be useful in protheththing lithtth.