LE (text editor)

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LE
Screenshot of LE in UTF-8 mode.
Design by	Alexander V. Lukyanov
Latest release	1.13.6 / January 21, 2008
OS	UNIX-like
Genre	Text editor
License	GNU GPL
Website	http://freshmeat.net/projects/leeditor/

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

rectangle select/copy/paste
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
edits (replace only) mmap'd files or devices.

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.

LE uses the system's regular expression library, which is assumed to support the POSIX features.

[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.