- LE (text editor)
Infobox Software
name = LE
logo =
caption = Screenshot of LE in UTF-8 mode.
author = Alexander V. Lukyanov
developer =
latest release version = 1.13.10
latest release date =September 20 2008
latest preview version =
latest preview date =
operating system =UNIX-like
platform =
genre =Text editor
license =GNU GPL
website = http://freshmeat.net/projects/leeditor/LE is a
text editor which appears something like theNorton Editor , but has many additional features:
* rectangle select/copy/paste (block type is switchable)
* filtering block contents through an external program
* linear multilevelundo /redo
* customizable menus
* colorsyntax highlighting (using regular expressions in an external file)
* handlesUTF-8 characters, based onlocale settings
* customizable keymaps for different terminal types (associating either literal strings orterminfo capability names)
*hexadecimal editing mode
* editing ofmmap 'd files or devices in replace mode
* frame drawing mode (first seen in Lexicon)
* file selection box (inspired byTurbo 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 forxterm ,rxvt and some less familiar terminal types.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 intoC++ ,and published it in1997 with theGPL license.External links
* [http://freshmeat.net/projects/leeditor/ LE Project Page]
* [http://directory.fsf.org/le-editor.html FSF abstract for LE]
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