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<h2 class="chapter">1 Introduction</h2>
<p><a name="index-LITHP-1"></a><a name="index-Features-2"></a><a name="index-vi-3"></a><a name="index-POSIX-4"></a><a name="index-terminfo-5"></a><a name="index-termcap-6"></a>
<p><code>ne</code> is a full screen text editor for <span class="sc">un*x</span> (or, more
precisely, for <span class="sc">posix</span>: see <a href="Motivations-and-Design.html#Motivations-and-Design">Motivations and Design</a>). I came to
the decision to write such an editor after getting completely sick of
<code>vi</code>, both from a feature and user interface point of view. I
needed an editor that I could use through a <code>telnet</code> connection or
a phone line and that wouldn't fire off a full-blown
<span class="sc">lithp</span><a rel="footnote" href="#fn-1" name="fnd-1"><sup>1</sup></a> operating system just to do some editing.
<p>A concise overview of the main features follows:
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<li>three user interfaces: control keystrokes, command line, and menus;
keystrokes and menus are completely configurable;
<li>syntax highlighting;
<li>full support for UTF-8 files, including multiple-column characters;
<li>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;
<li>simple scripting language where scripts can be generated <i>via</i> an
idiotproof record/play method;
<li>unlimited undo/redo capability (can be disabled with a command);
<li>automatic preferences system based on the extension of the file name being
edited;
<li>automatic completion of prefixes using words in your documents as dictionary;
<li>a file requester with completion features for easy file retrieval;
<li>extended regular expression search and replace à la <code>emacs</code> and
<code>vi</code>;
<li>a very compact memory model—you can easily load and modify very large files;
<li>editing of binary files.
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<h4>Footnotes</h4><p class="footnote"><small>[<a name="fn-1" href="#fnd-1">1</a>]</small> This otherwise unremarkable language is
distinguished by the absence of an ‘<samp><span class="samp">s</span></samp>’ in its character set; users
must substitute ‘<samp><span class="samp">th</span></samp>’. <span class="sc">lithp</span> is said to be useful in
protheththing lithtth.</p>
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