About VE (Visual Editor) - A Lean, Powerful xterm/console/DOS Text Editor
VE (Visual Editor) is a lean, fast, feature-rich xterm/console text
editor. VE started life in 1984 in Toronto Canada, as a text editor for
the NABU 1600 small business computer. The NABU 1600 was an Intel
8086-based machine with 512Kb of RAM and a 10Mb hard drive, delivered
with the Qunix operating system. You can learn more about it
here.
The name "VE" was a good natured jab at the vi editor, which was
delivered with the NABU 1600, but which would never run properly on
that platform, necessitating the creation of VE.
For several years in the mid 1980's, VE was the sole text editor
for a small community of users on the NABU 1600. In 1994, the author
acquired a PC (wow! VGA graphics!) and ported VE to MSDOS. Through the
mid 1990's, VE was in use by a small community of MSDOS users. In 2005,
the author ported VE to Linux (various distros) and ncurses, and
released it to the Linux user community. This version was later ported
back to MS-DOS as well. In 2022, the author upgraded the 2005 DOS version
of VE with a strong set of new features and released VE v4.0c to the MSDOS
enthusiast community.
Linux VE has been tested on many x86 Linux distros, including SuSE Linux,
9.3, SuSE Linix 9.0, Mandrake 10.1, Debian 3.1, CCux-Linux 0.9.7, Yoper,
2.1, aLinux 12.5, VectorLinux 5.1, Knoppix 3.4 and Damn Small Linux 1.2.
Linux VE's only software dependency is the availability of ncurses.
Accordingly, it is highly likely that the executable provided with
the distribution tarball will run directly on your machine. If for
any reason this is not true, the full source tree is included, along
with complete build instructions.
DOS VE 4.0c has been tested on MSDOS 6 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11,
and on a variety of PC platforms, ranging from the 33 MHz 486DX up to the
90 MHz 2nd generation Pentium.
VE is provided free of charge. Use and enjoy.
Download VE here
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