LE has many block operations with stream and rectangular blocks, can edit both unix and dos style files (LF/CRLF), is binary clean, has hex mode, can edit text with multi-byte character encoding, has full undo/redo, can edit files and mmap-able devices in mmap shared mode (only replace), has tunable syntax highlighting, tunable color scheme (can use default colors), tunable key map. It is slightly similar to Norton Editor, but has more features.
| Tags | Text Editors |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPLv3 |
| Operating Systems | POSIX |
| Implementation | C++ |
Recent releases


Release Notes: This release fixes a long standing bug with split multi-byte characters, adds more SQL keywords in syntax, and fixes an empty comment in m4 highlighting.


Release Notes: This release adds mouse wheel support, fixes a filename glitch, and fixes HTML comment highlighting.


Release Notes: Large-file support was added for mmap of a file part. Creating a file in mmap mode is no longer attempted. The license was changed to the GNU GPLv3 (regex.c already uses it).


Release Notes: Minor improvements were made and some bugs were fixed.


Release Notes: This release adds a "match case" option, improves the built-in calculator (hex, oct, binary operations, insertion to text, more trig functions, factorial), changes the history file format, optimizes memory usage, and implements a generic Russian input mode.
Recent comments
08 Jul 2002 07:13
Numeric keypad...
Hi, I don't know if it only happens to me, but when I use 'le', sometimes I can't use the numeric keypad. I have Num. Block activated, but le doesn't allow me to use those keys.
Please, answer me as soon as posible, and sorry for my english :(
01 Aug 2001 01:15
Re: le support for Perl syntax highlightning
> This editor should support Perl syntax
> highlighting too ;).
Oops! Sorry. Version 1.9.0 has support for Perl. ;)
01 Aug 2001 01:09
le support for Perl syntax highlightning
This editor should support Perl syntax highlighting too ;).
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