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 multibyte 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, tunable menu. It is slightly similar to Norton Editor for DOS, but has more features.
You can use either auto-tools or cmake to build from sources.
- Build with cmake:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make
make install- Build with auto-tools:
./autogen.sh
mkdir build
cd build
../configure
make
make install