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- Short: Full text screen editor for UN*X.
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- ne is a full screen text editor for UN*X which is easy to use at first
- sight, powerful, and completely configurable. It runs on any terminal
- supported by your terminfo database, and it is based on the POSIX standard.
- ne currently runs only on UN*X terminals, but a future release will provide
- an X interface.
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- Its main features are:
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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 via an
- idiotproof learn/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 for easy file retrieval;
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- * extended regular expression search and replace a la emacs and
- vi;
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- * editing of binary files;
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- * Texinfo documentation (with a ready-to-print PostScript version);
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- * sparing resource usage.
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- ne is free software, and it is distributed under the GNU License.
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