ne mit Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Upstream-Dokumentation
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• ne

Projektgeschichte

The ne README says it was originally developed on the Amiga, inspired by Martin Taillefer's TurboText, and later moved to Linux. Todd Lewis joined development with features written for the University of North Carolina, and Daniele Filaretti helped with syntax highlighting.

Sebastiano Vigna's software page says ne had a measure of success among UN*X users who disliked vi or emacs, which matches the editor's niche: conventional shortcuts and menus, but still a terminal-native Unix program.

Adoptionsgeschichte

ne is widely packaged for an editor of its size. The upstream README links Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, OpenBSD, MacPorts, Homebrew, and Haiku ports. Debian describes it as easy for beginners and powerful enough for advanced users, with UTF-8, multi-column character support, syntax highlighting, and configurable menus and keybindings.

On July 1, 2026, GitHub showed 568 stars and 36 forks for vigna/ne. Homebrew Formulae listed stable 3.3.4 and 149 installs in its 365-day analytics window.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users install `ne` as a low-friction terminal editor for remote sessions, rescue environments, small systems, and people who do not want modal vi. The appeal is that common operations use familiar control-key shortcuts while advanced users can customize menus, keys, macros, syntax rules, and extension-specific preferences.

Its package metadata is especially helpful because it exposes real config locations such as `~/.ne/.keys`, `~/.ne/.menus`, `~/.ne/.extensions`, `~/.ne/.default#ap`, and `~/.ne/syntax/`.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

ne is not a dominant editor, but it is a durable counterexample to the idea that terminal editing means either vi or emacs. For package indexes, it belongs in the small-editor lineage with Joe, nano, micro, and other tools that trade ecosystem gravity for immediate usability.

Zeitleiste

• {'date': '1993', 'event': 'Commonly reported first release year for ne; upstream describes its origin on Amiga before the move to Linux.'}
• {'date': '2015-04-17', 'event': 'vigna/ne repository creation date reported by the GitHub API.'}
• {'date': '2025-02-06', 'event': 'Version 3.3.4 date reported by package metadata sources.'}
• {'date': '2026-07-01', 'event': 'Homebrew Formulae listed stable 3.3.4 and 149 installs in the 365-day analytics window.'}

Related projects

• TurboText
• Joe editor
• vi
• emacs
• nano
• micro

Quellen

• https://api.github.com/repos/vigna/ne
• https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/ne
• https://github.com/vigna/ne
• https://packages.debian.org/sid/ne
• https://vigna.di.unimi.it/software.php