On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 04:19:50PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > James Turner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Description: > > se is a screen oriented version of the classic UNIX text editor ed. se > > has a long history dating back to the early 1980s. Beginning in 2013, > > Thomas Cort undertook the task of modernizing the early code and build > > system to get the software working on recent POSIX operating systems. > > > > The code base was straight forward and only used facilities available 25 > > years prior, and as a result, with a few modifications, it runs on many > > modern operating systems. Thomas' primary motivation is to preserve this > > bit of computing history. His goals are to squash any remaining bugs and > > make se as portable as possible. No major new features will be added. > > I know we all just copy and paste this stuff, but try to see it > from the user's perspective. What do I want to know? What is this > package, what can it be used for. I do not care about the history, > other operating systems, or the author's love for kittens. All but > the first line of that description is useless fluff and can be > removed. > > -- > Christian "naddy" Weisgerber [email protected] >
How is the below for an updated DESCR. I didn't really address how it's different then vi, since in the long wrong it probably isn't all that different. It just presents a different interface and has different commands. DESCR se is a screen oriented version of the classic UNIX text editor ed. It has a full visual interface allowing you to see the text you're editing. It's command syntax will be very familiar to users who already know ed. Some of se's additional features are, a built-in help system, configurable options that can be loaded from a startup file, the ability to be ran interactively or via the included scriptse utility, and optional usage logging. -- James Turner
