e3 (text editor)

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e3
e3 editor's opening screen
Developed by	Albrecht Kleine
Latest release	2.7.1 / November 1, 2007
OS	Unix Windows
Genre	Text editor
License	GPL
Website	site of e3 editor

e3 is a tiny text editor which is licensed under the GPL. It has a code size of less than 10 Kilobytes. It is completely written in Assembly language, but e3c, a version written in C, is available as well.

e3 has basic editing and arithmetic functions.

An editor called e3 also exists for the AIX operating systems from IBM.

[edit] Usage

e3 can emulate WordStar, Emacs, Pico, NEdit and vi keybindings. The default is WordStar. If e3 is executed through a symlink as e3em, e3ne, e3pi or e3vi it can be switched to the desired keybinding.