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<h2 class="chapter">1 Introduction</h2>
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<p><code>ne</code> is a full screen text editor for <small>UN*X</small> (or, more
precisely, for <small>POSIX</small>: 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
<small>LITHP</small><a name="DOCF1" href="#FOOT1"><sup>1</sup></a> operating system just to do some editing.
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<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><li> syntax highlighting;
</li><li> full support for UTF-8 files, including multiple-column characters;
</li><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><li> simple scripting language where scripts can be generated <i>via</i> an
idiotproof record/play method;
</li><li> unlimited undo/redo capability (can be disabled with a command);
</li><li> automatic preferences system based on the extension of the file name being
edited;
</li><li> automatic completion of prefixes using words in your documents as dictionary;
</li><li> a file requester with completion features for easy file retrieval;
</li><li> extended regular expression search and replace à la <code>emacs</code> and
<code>vi</code>;
</li><li> a very compact memory model—you can easily load and modify very large
files: their size is limited only by the core memory available;
</li><li> editing of binary files.
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<h4 class="footnotes-heading">Footnotes</h4>
<h3><a name="FOOT1" href="#DOCF1">(1)</a></h3>
<p>This otherwise unremarkable language is
distinguished by the absence of an ‘<samp>s</samp>’ in its character set; users
must substitute ‘<samp>th</samp>’. <small>LITHP</small> is said to be useful in
protheththing lithtth.</p>
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