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minimalistic full screen text editor on ncurses

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`e' version 0.994
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`e' is minimalistic text editor
- inspired by Norton Editor for DOS
- insert/replace mode, block operations with highlighting, find and replace,
  goto line
- writed on C with ncurses, should compile anywhere
- tested with
   - FreeBSD 2.2.8-9.3
   - RedHat 6.2
   - SunOS 2.6-10
- file loaded entirely in memory, you limited only to what realloc(3) return

Controls
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charasters, Enter, Up, Down, Left, Right, Home, End, PgUp, PgDn, Del, Backspace
	standart behavior
ins	toggle insert mode
^X	exit
^S	save file as
^T	goto top of text
^O	goto bottom of text
^Y	delete current line
^Q	quote next charaster (put in text nonprintable symbol)
^A	go to line by number (or beginnig of selection if number not specified)
^F	find string (not regexp, usual string, exact case)
^R	replace one string by another
^N	repeat last operation of find or replace
^B	mark begin of block (you'll see if beginning mark before ending)
^E	mark end of block
^C	copy marked block to current position
^V	move marked block to current position
^D	delete marked block
^P	put (write) block in file
^G	get (load) block from file
^J	same as PgUp
^K	same as PgDn

Hints
~~~~~
- you can edit binary files because `e' don't format anything
- to reset block selection put ending mark before or at beginning mark (^B^E)
- you can convert Dos files (crlf) to Unix (lf) easily: while pressing
Ctrl print trqmmmnnnnnnnnn... :)
- and back to Dos: trqjmqmqjmnnn...
- by analogy be careful to Ctrl while printing something like 'tboed'
- there is no autosave or some kind of that, so backup your data in time 

Bugs
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- many operations on every getch: erase() and COLS*LINES addch(),
but i don't think its so bad (scrolling is optimised, so on telnet session
to 386 i feel the same speed like vi).
- bad documentation, which counts only this file in terrible english
without man page, i would be very thankful if someone can write it

Copyrights
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- as is, no warranties at all
- you can do with this sources whatever you want (WTFPL)

Credits
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Mtv Europe <mtve1927@gmail.com>
	initial release

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