LE (text editor)
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 Screenshot of LE in UTF-8 mode. | |
| Original author(s) | Alexander V. Lukyanov |
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| Initial release | 1997 |
| Stable release | 1.16.8[1] 
/ 5 February 2021 |
| Written in | C++ |
| Operating system | UNIX-like |
| Type | Text editor |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Website | github |
LE is a text editor which appears something like the Norton Editor, but has many additional features:[2][3][4]
- Rectangle select/copy/paste (block type is switchable)
- Search/replace with regular expressions
- 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.
History[edit]
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 under the GNU General Public License.
References[edit]
- ^ Error: Unable to display the reference properly. See the documentation for details.
- ^ "GitHub - lavv17/le: LE text editor". GitHub. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
- ^ "le editor - Freecode". Archived from the original on 2022-04-12.
- ^ "le - full screen text editor". Ubuntu Manpage. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
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