About:
e3 is a full-screen, user-friendly text editor with an interface similar to that of either WordStar, Emacs, Pico, Nedit, or vi. It's heavily optimized for size and independent of libc or any other libraries, making it useful for mini-Linux distributions and rescue disks. The assembler version supports Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Win9x, QNX, Atheos, BeOS, ELKS, and DOS. There is also a separately distributed version written in C which supports some other Unix versions and CygWin. It is also possible to use regular expressions by using child processes like sed. e3 has a built in arithmetic calculator.

Release focus: Major bugfixes

Changes:
This version includes an important bug fix for the FreeBSD version.

Author:
kleine [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.64/10.00 (9 votes)

Homepage:
http://mitglied.lycos.de/albkleine/
Tar/GZ:
http://mitglied.lycos.de/albkleine/e3-2.7.1.tar.gz

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Environment]		Console (Text Based)
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		BeOS, Microsoft :: MS-DOS, Microsoft :: Windows :: Windows 95/98/ME, POSIX :: BSD :: FreeBSD, POSIX :: BSD :: NetBSD, POSIX :: BSD :: OpenBSD, POSIX :: Linux, POSIX :: Other
[Programming Language]		Assembly
[Topic]		Text Editors

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.7.1	01-Nov-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
2.7.1	Minor feature enhancements	01-Nov-2007 21:10
2.7.0	Minor feature enhancements	29-Jan-2006 12:41
2.6.3	N/A	27-Oct-2005 18:57
2.6.2	Minor bugfixes	22-Feb-2005 21:45
2.6.1	Major feature enhancements	05-Jan-2005 20:55
2.6.0	Major feature enhancements	04-Jul-2004 14:59
2.5	Minor feature enhancements	12-Apr-2004 18:13
2.43	Minor bugfixes	22-Apr-2003 20:28
2.42	Minor security fixes	29-Mar-2003 18:49
2.41	Major bugfixes	02-Mar-2003 11:14

 Comments

[»] nice little editor; watch out for file permissions bug
by TxRx - Nov 4th 2002 19:14:29

I just started using this. Its a nice little editor and small so I can carry it around on a disk to different jobs.

I found one possible bug: when the editor saves a file, it creates a new file which has permissions modified by umask; this results in unexpected change to the permissions on the file. The "backup" of the saved file is not affected.
(test on RH 2.2 and e3 in WS mode)

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[»] Re: nice little editor; watch out for file permissions bug
by kleine - Mar 29th 2003 09:14:17


> I found one possible bug: when the
> editor saves a file, it creates a new
> file which has permissions modified by
> umask; this results in unexpected change
> to the permissions on the file. The
> "backup" of the saved file is
> not affected.

This is fixed in release 2.42.
BTW,
please send a CC of any bug reports
to the author.


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[»] Problem with e3c on mipsel
by Megy - Apr 14th 2004 04:35:23

Hi, I compiled e3c for mipsel cpu, it works fine, but I'm unable to save any file. It writes to the bottom line in e3c : ERROR 2

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[»] Re: Problem with e3c on mipsel
by kleine - Oct 27th 2005 11:13:19


> Hi, I compiled e3c for mipsel cpu,

> it works fine, but I'm unable to save

> any file.

> It writes to the bottom line in e3c :

> ERROR 2

>

Due help of Chr.Ostheimer (thanks!) e3c should
compile and run on mipsel cpu very well
starting in release 2.6.3 (aka 2.63) .

All the best,
Albrecht


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