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Copyright (C) 1993-1998 Sebastiano Vigna<BR>
Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Todd M. Lewis and Sebastiano Vigna
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<LI><A HREF="ne_1.html#SEC1">Introduction</A>
<LI><A HREF="ne_2.html#SEC2">Basics</A>
<LI><A HREF="ne_3.html#SEC16">Reference</A>
<LI><A HREF="ne_4.html#SEC36">Commands</A>
<LI><A HREF="ne_5.html#SEC167">Configuration</A>
<LI><A HREF="ne_6.html#SEC170">Hints and Tricks</A>
<LI><A HREF="ne_7.html#SEC171">Motivations and Design</A>
<LI><A HREF="ne_8.html#SEC172">History</A>
<LI><A HREF="ne_9.html#SEC173">Portability Problems</A>
<LI><A HREF="ne_10.html#SEC174">Acknowledgments</A>
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<H1><A NAME="SEC1" HREF="ne_toc.html#TOC1">Introduction</A></H1>
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<CODE>ne</CODE> is a full screen text editor for UN*X (or, more
precisely, for POSIX: see section <A HREF="ne_7.html#SEC171">Motivations and Design</A>). I came to
the decision to write such an editor after getting completely sick of
<CODE>vi</CODE>, both from a feature and user interface point of view. I
needed an editor that I could use through a <CODE>telnet</CODE> connection or
a phone line and that wouldn't fire off a full-blown
LITHP<A NAME="DOCF1" HREF="ne_foot.html#FOOT1">(1)</A> operating system just to do some editing.
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A concise overview of the main features follows:
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three user interfaces: control keystrokes, command line, and menus;
keystrokes and menus are completely configurable;
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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;
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simple scripting language where scripts can be generated <I>via</I> an
idiotproof record/play method;
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unlimited undo/redo capability (can be disabled with a command);
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automatic preferences system based on the extension of the file name being
edited;
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a file requester with completion features for easy file retrieval;
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extended regular expression search and replace a la <CODE>emacs</CODE> and
<CODE>vi</CODE>;
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editing of binary files.
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