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<h2 class="chapter">9 History</h2>
<p><a name="index-TurboText-237"></a><a name="index-Amiga-238"></a>
The main inspiration for this work came from Martin Taillefer's
<code>TurboText</code> for the Amiga, which is the best editor I ever saw on
any computer.
<p>The first versions of <code>ne</code> were created on an Amiga 3000T, using
the port of the <code>curses</code> library by Simon John Raybould. After
switching to the lower-level <code>terminfo</code> library, the development
continued under <span class="sc">un*x</span>. Finally, I ported <code>terminfo</code> to the
Amiga, thus making it possible to develop on that platform again. For
<code>ne</code> 1.0, an effort has been made to provide a <code>terminfo</code>
emulation using GNU's <code>termcap</code>.
The development eventually moved to Linux.
<p>Todd Lewis got involved with <code>ne</code> when the University of North
Carolina's Chapel Hill campus migrated its central research computers
from <span class="sc">mvs</span> to <span class="sc">unix</span> in 1995. The readily available <span class="sc">unix</span> editors
had serious weaknesses in their user interfaces, especially from the
standpoint of <span class="sc">mvs</span> users who were not too excited about having to move
their projects to another platform while learning an entirely new suite
of tools. <code>ne</code> offered an easily understood interface with enough
capabilities to keep these new <span class="sc">unix</span> users productive. Todd installed and
has maintained <span class="sc">ne</span> at UNC since then, making several improvements to the
code to meet his users' needs. In early 1999 his code base and
mine were merged to become version 1.17.
<p>Support for syntax highlighting was added in 2009 with code and
techniques heavily borrowed from the GNU-licensed editor <code>joe</code>,
which was written by Joseph H. Allen. Much of the work to incorporate
this code into <code>ne</code> was undertaken by Daniele Filaretti, an
undergraduate student working under the direction of Sebastiano at the
Università degli Studi di Milano.
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