JERED is a text editor for *nix systems based on the editor E for DOS and OS/2 from IBM. It was written because of the lack of Easy To Use text editors for *nix. It is not as powerful as Gnu Emacs nor VI, because it wasn't written with this goal and wasn't written by clever enough people, however it can handle most of your demands.
This program was first written on a Siemens/Nixdorf Targon 420 Risc/OS system, it looked like VI but was easier to use. Now, most of the developpments are done on a Linux system on a 486. I've tried to compile it on an HPUX system and it worked in about half an hour. However I can't access a SNI nor an HPUX system anymore so I'm only sure it works on Linux PC and Alpha.
This editor provides many interesting possibilities:
To run this editor you must download the sources to your system, then you must install and compile them, then run the program, here is how to do:
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/editors/terminal
or preferably from
http://cortex.unice.fr/~jerome/jered
/usr/src
then you must extract the sources from
the archive, for example if you downloaded the file jered-1.6.0.tar.gz:
tar -zxf jered-1.6.0.tar.gz
cd jered-1.6.0
Then you must configure the makefile for your system:
./configure
Then you run the compilation:
make
If you want you can install the executable plus profile files and macros:
make install
jered file1 file2 ... fileN