LE (text editor)

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{{Infobox Software

| name = LE

| logo =

| screenshot = 300px

| caption = Screenshot of LE in UTF-8 mode.

| author = Alexander V. Lukyanov

| developer =

| released = {{Start date and age|1997}}

| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q4042433|P348|P548=Q2804309}}

| latest release date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q4042433|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}

| latest preview version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q4042433|P348|P548=Q51930650}}

| latest preview date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q4042433|P348|P548=Q51930650|P577}}

| operating system = UNIX-like

| platform =

| genre = Text editor

| license = GPL-3.0-or-later

| website = {{URL|https://github.com/lavv17/le}}

| programming language = C++

}}

LE is a text editor which appears something like the Norton Editor, but has many additional features:{{Cite web|title=GitHub - lavv17/le: LE text editor|url=https://github.com/lavv17/le|website=GitHub|access-date=9 June 2022}}{{Cite web|title=le editor - Freecode|url=http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/leeditor|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220412011336/http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/leeditor |archive-date=2022-04-12 }}{{Cite web|title=le - full screen text editor|url=http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/impish/man1/le.1.html|website=Ubuntu Manpage|access-date=9 June 2022}}

• Rectangle select/copy/paste (block type is switchable)
• Search/replace with regular expressions
• Filtering block contents through an external program
• Linear multilevel undo/redo
• Customizable menus
• Color syntax highlighting (using regular expressions in an external file)
• Handles UTF-8 characters, based on locale settings
• Customizable keymaps for different terminal types (associating either literal strings or terminfo capability names)
• Hexadecimal editing mode
• Editing of mmap'd files or devices in replace mode
• Frame drawing mode (first seen in Lexicon)
• File selection box (inspired by Turbo C)
• Built-in postfix calculator.

It uses ncurses for display, mouse and part of the keyboard handling. The application has a built-in table of key assignments for xterm, rxvt and some less familiar terminal types.