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e3 text editor, how cool is it?

15 February 2023, 12:08:16

 Hello guys what do you think about e3 text editor. Just freshly discovered it e3 in my search of a tiniest text editor possible. Is it something smaller than this or I've hit the  bottom rock with e3?

I'm trying to ditch sudo and replace it with su but now idk a sudoedit replacement to work with  su, so i thought is better to go for that with the smallest possible text editor. This is my experimental approach but how this is being done the proper way?

I don't like vi or vim like text editors though, even if i know for a lot of folks out there vim is their Valentine..

Have a wonderful shinny day 🙂

Re: e3 text editor, how cool is it?

Reply #1 – 15 February 2023, 15:45:08

 
 Played with it for a bit and it's amazing cool. Still has those ^KQ for abort and ^KX to save and exit kinda hard to remember at first
 but I adopt it. Got rid of sudo and sudoedit and said bye to nano 4 now. It has Wordstar, Emacs , Pico, vi or Nedit like modes. I like it for
 its light size.


EDIT: After using e3 for  while I've come to the conclusion is not that amazing as it look at first. If you need to edit a big text file idk 60-100MB text file after edit e3 literally wastes a huge portion of the text file at 10 MB or so. Another secret unpleasant surprise is that when you edit a file keeps the old one but makes it hidden idk why 🤦🏻‍♂️