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LE (text editor)
LE • 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.
Screenshot of LE in UTF-8 mode.
It uses ncurses for display, mouse and part of the key-
Original Alexander V. Lukyanov board handling. The application has a built-in table of
author(s) key assignments for xterm, rxvt and some less familiar
Stable release 1.14.5 / November 10, terminal types.
2010 (2010-11-10)
Operating UNIX-like History
system
According to the HISTORY file in its sources, Alexander
Type Text editor V. Lukyanov started writing it in 1993 while using a
BESTA machine. Over the next four years, he rewrote it
License GNU GPL
into C++, and published it in 1997 with the GPL license.
Website http://freshmeat.net/projects/
leeditor/
External links
LE is a text editor which appears something like the Nor- • LE at Freecode
ton Editor, but has many additional features: • FSF abstract for LE
• rectangle select/copy/paste (block type is
switchable)
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Categories:
• Free text editors
• Curses (programming library)
• Free software programmed in C++
• Free software stubs
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