NeEditor

Last edit April 23, 2014
(ne stands for "Nice Editor")

Does anyone else use it? It's a small 'vi replacement' editor but it uses normal keybindings (Ctrl-O = Open,Ctrl-Q = Quit etc). Here's the feature list from its home page http://ne.dsi.unimi.it/

  • compiles without effort everywhere (or almost everywhere), is packaged for all Linux distributions, and ported to other operating systems (such as Mac OS X);
  • is fast, small, powerful and simple to use;
  • has standard keystrokes (e.g., copy is CTRL-C);
  • uses little bandwidth, so it is ideal for email, editing through phone line (or slow GSM/GPRS/UMTS) connections;
  • has a very compact internal text representation, so you can easily load and modify very large files…
  • 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 a la emacs and vi;
  • a very compact memory model—you can easily load and modify very large files;
  • editing of binary files.

CategorySoftwareTool, CategoryTextEditor