The design principal is that users in a recovery situation should not
have to struggle with an unfamiliar editor to fix their text files, and
they should not need to train themselves on their recovery floppy, so
I already include a version of VI and a version of EMACS. Given that
that is already 1 too many and about 100K too much, I won't be adding
any other text editing options. I would consider a single editor
that had a vi mode and an emacs mode, if it was (1) less than 160K,
(2) invokable as vi or emacs with a link and it will behave like the
program it was invoked as, and (3) at least as capable and functional
and compatible in both modes as the elvis and ce editors I already
have in place. It is on my long version to-do list to research
for whether such an editor exists. Personally, I think all users
of Unix-like operating systems should learn vi, then learn emacs if
they have the time, then there is no third thing. If a user doesn't
know vi _or_ emacs, I have conveniently included help files for both
editors that are sufficient to learn them on the fly under duress.
-Tom
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Albrecht Kleine wrote:
> Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 17:21:15 +0200 (MEST)
> From: Albrecht Kleine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [tomsrtbt] Announce e3 v0.7: MINI editor w wordstar keys
>
> Hi,
>
> I've just release another version of 'e3'.
> e3 is a mini editor written in NASM assembler and highly
> optimized for small size, so you might be interested using it
> for your mini Linux distribution disks.
>
> The executable is below 5000 byte only, but you could add some
> helper text files, anyway you'll stay at 10 k including man page etc.
>
> e3 is using Wordstar-like key bindings just like 'joe'.
> Except 'undo' and 'syntax highlighting' e3 supports all basic
> functions one expects.
>
> e3 is primary available on Linux, FreeBSD and BeOS. (x86)
>
> e3 is designed to be independent of libc or any other library
> and it is released under GPL terms.
>
> Fetch it from: http://sax.sax.de/~adlibit/e3-0.7.tar.gz
>
> Cheers,
> Albrecht
>
