1 Introduction
ne is a full screen text editor for UN*X (or, more
precisely, for POSIX: see Motivations and Design). I came to
the decision to write such an editor after getting completely sick of
vi, both from a feature and user interface point of view. I
needed an editor that I could use through a telnet connection or
a phone line and that wouldn’t fire off a full-blown
LITHP1 operating system just to do some editing.
A concise overview of the main features follows:
-  three user interfaces: control keystrokes, command line, and menus;
keystrokes and menus are completely configurable;
-  syntax highlighting;
-  full support for UTF-8 files, including multiple-column characters;
-  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;
-  simple scripting language where scripts can be generated via an
idiotproof record/play method;
-  unlimited undo/redo capability (can be disabled with a command);
-  automatic preferences system based on the extension of the file name being
edited;
-  automatic completion of prefixes using words in your documents as dictionary;
-  a file requester with completion features for easy file retrieval;
-  extended regular expression search and replace à la emacsandvi;
-  a very compact memory model—you can easily load and modify very large
files: their size is limited only by the core memory available;
-  editing of binary files.