About VE (Visual Editor) - A Lean, Powerful xterm/console Text Editor
VE (Visual Editor) is a lean, fast, feature-rich xterm/console text
editor. VE started life in 1983 in Toronto Canada, as a text editor for
the NABU 1600 small business computer. The NABU 1600 was an Intel
8086-based machine with 512Kb of RAM and a 10Mb hard drive, delivered
with the QUNIX operating system. You can learn more about it
here.
The name "VE" was a good natured jab at the vi editor, which was
delivered with the NABU 1600, but which could never be induced to run
properly, necessitating the creation of VE.
For several years in the mid 1980's, VE was the sole text editor
for a small community of users on the NABU 1600. In 1994, the author
acquired a PC (wow! VGA graphics!) and ported VE to MSDOS. Through the
mid 1990's, VE was in use by a small community of MSDOS users. In 2005,
the author ported VE to Linux (various distros) and ncurses, and
redistributed it to the Linux user community.
VE has been tested on many x86 Linux distros, including SuSE Linux 9.3,
SuSE Linix 9.0, Mandrake 10.1, Debian 3.1, CCux-Linux 0.9.7, Yoper 2.1,
aLinux 12.5, VectorLinux 5.1, Knoppix 3.4 and Damn Small Linux 1.2.
VE's only software dependency is the availability of ncurses. As a
result, it is highly likely that the executable provided with the
distribution tarball will run directly on your machine. If for any
reason this is not true, the full source tree is included, along with
complete build instructions.
VE is provided free of charge, and is distributed under the terms of the
GNU Public License. Use and enjoy.
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