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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:


Footnotes

[1] This otherwise unremarkable language is distinguished by the absence of an ‘s’ in its character set; users must substitute ‘th’. lithp is said to be useful in protheththing lithtth.