Re: A new editor

[Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 11:35:19AM +0000, nia wrote:
> NetBSD is having an influx of new users. Some have mentioned having no
> alternative screen editor to vi(1) in base is an obstacle to getting
> their system configured. I've been trying to point new users to
> xedit(1), but this doesn't help if they're in single-user mode or
> can't get X running, or are limited to /rescue.
> 

A very long time ago I wrote a simple editor based on libmenu so it is a text
based editor with pulldown menus. I think I committed it to localsrc. It
would mean that licencing is not an issue. I cannot guuarantee it is not
highly buggy but could be worth a look.

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