LE (text editor)

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Screenshot of LE in UTF-8 mode.

Original author(s)| Alexander V. Lukyanov
Initial release| 1997; 26 years ago (1997)
Stable release|

1.16.8[1] / 5 February 2021

Operating system| UNIX-like
Type| Text editor
License| GPL-3.0-or-later
Website| github.com/lavv17/le

LE is a text editor which appears something like the Norton Editor, but has many additional features:[2][3][4]

* Rectangle select/copy/paste (block type is switchable)
* Search/replace with regular expressions
* Filtering block contents through an external program
* Linear multilevel undo/redo
* Customizable menus
* Color syntax highlighting (using regular expressions in an external file)
* Handles UTF-8 characters, based on locale settings
* Customizable keymaps for different terminal types (associating either literal strings or terminfo capability names)
* Hexadecimal editing mode
* Editing of mmap'd files or devices in replace mode
* Frame drawing mode (first seen in Lexicon)
* File selection box (inspired by Turbo C)
* Built-in postfix calculator.

It uses ncurses for display, mouse and part of the keyboard handling. The application has a built-in table of key assignments for xterm, rxvt and some less familiar terminal types.

## History[edit]

According to the HISTORY file in its sources, Alexander V. Lukyanov started writing it in 1993 while using a BESTA machine. Over the next four years, he rewrote it into C++, and published it in 1997 under the GNU General Public License.

## References[edit]

1. ^ Error: Unable to display the reference properly. See the documentation for details.
2. ^ "GitHub - lavv17/le: LE text editor". GitHub. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
3. ^ "le editor - Freecode". Archived from the original on 2022-04-12.
4. ^ "le - full screen text editor". Ubuntu Manpage. Retrieved 9 June 2022.

## External links[edit]

* FSF abstract for LE
* GitHub

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