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21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks)

21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks)

Posted Aug 27, 2008 17:19 UTC (Wed) by OLPC (subscriber, #47981)
Parent article: 21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks)

Nobody remembers ne, the nice text editor? It was shaped after the venerable Turbo Text, an amazing programmer editor for AmigaOS.

The home page at http://ne.dsi.unimi.it/ seems down at the moment, but you can still reach it through the wayback machine.


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21 of the Best Free Linux Text Editors (LinuxLinks)

Posted Aug 28, 2008 8:01 UTC (Thu) by deleteme (guest, #49633) [Link]

I loved the scripting in Turbo text, I bought the Amiga Forever emulator just to use Turbo text again. I think modern editors are usually to hard to interact with from other applications via script, but maybe I'm just too old to bother with that nowdays..

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