LE (text editor)

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LE is a text editor which appears something like the Norton Editor, but has many additional features:

• rectangle select/copy/paste (block type is switchable)
• filtering block contents through an external program
• linear multilevel undo/redo
• customizable menus
• color syntax highlighting (using regular expressions in an external file)
• handles UTF-8 characters, based on locale settings
• customizable keymaps for different terminal types (associating either literal strings or terminfo capability names)
• hexadecimal editing mode
• editing of mmap'd files or devices in replace mode
• frame drawing mode (first seen in Lexicon)
• file selection box (inspired by Turbo C)
• built-in postfix calculator.

It uses ncurses for display, mouse and part of the keyboard handling. The application has a built-in table of key assignments for xterm, rxvt and some less familiar terminal types.

[edit] History

According to the HISTORY file in its sources, Alexander V. Lukyanov started writing it in 1993 while using a BESTA machine. Over the next four years, he rewrote it into C++, and published it in 1997 with the GPL license.

[edit] External links

• LE Project Page
• FSF abstract for LE