Ve

Jul 20, 2023

NTHU-CS Maple BBS 2.36 BBS-like editor

NTHU-CS Maple BBS 2.36 BBS-like editor

Besides normal functions, it has some great features for programmers – goto line ESC-G cut & paste cross files Ctrl-G to see ve.hlp block shift left/right ESC-J/K, Ctrl-G to see ve.hlp parenthesis matching ESC-[ seaching Ctrl-S, ESC-n, ESC-p matching start of line, case sensitive/in-sensitive, forward/backward undo line ESC - ‘-‘, or ESC-_
undelete lines ESC-u … emacs-like hot-key

ve is a tiny editor, about 60K. It’s woju’s favorite UNIX editor. The most obvious weakness of ve is changing TABs into Spaces. So please don’t use ve to edit TAB-important files, such as Makefile, sendmail.cf, syslog.conf… etc.



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