Last Updated on: 29th August 2024, 07:44 am
Web site: leware.net/software/led.html
Category: Office
Subcategory: Text Editors
Platform: Linux, BSD, AIX, Unix, OS X, Windows
License: unknown
Interface: CLI
Wikipedia:
First release: 1989
Led Lew’s Editor – a small, simple-to-use, full-screen text editor supporting multiple files, one or two views, piping into and out of the editor, paragraph reflow, a stable sort, hex editing, etc.. It runs on a number of Unix platforms (Linux, Sun, HP, Apollo, DEC, SGI, Xenix, DVIX, AIX, SVR4, Linux, BSD, MacOS X) as well as VAX/VMS and, later, as a full application, on Win9x/NT/2K/XP.
It uses the VT100 keypad (for general functions) and c-keys (for editing). It has no regular-expression searching, no user-definable keys (although emulators might help here), and processes tabs and RETURNs in an unusual way. On xterm, it will be necessary to provide the keypad mappings. Beta release was summer ’89 and it is has evolved ever since as needs dictated.
led is based mainly on three editors (in order of importance): IBM’s PE2 (for PCs – a great editor), XMS’s editor, and (could it be otherwise) IBM’s XEDIT. It borrows very little from vi (the yank buffer is temporary pending PE2-style marks which never happened).
That was started in 1989. It didn’t take long before the new editor could edit itself. The rest is history: led has never stopped growing (eg. around 2000, with a port to Windows over the Win32 API).
