Bug#547225: O: ne -- Nice Editor, an easy-to-use and powerful editor
I have some interest in this package as a prospective ncurses
co-maintainer, because ne is *very* picky about wrong terminfo entries,
and that helped me to discover that the xterm-256color terminfo had a
wrong backspace description. However, I certainly won't use ne as an
editor for any serious work, since I'm forever addicted to the One True
Editor¹, and with that state of affairs I cannot really maintain ne.
Today I've hacked around the package a bit, fixing the lintian warnings
and upgrading it to version 2.0.3 which has (limited) syntax
highlighting. What remains is to split the package (most of the stuff
lives in /usr/share, meaning that an arch-independent binary package is
in order), and to update debian/copyright. If anyone is interested in
that work, please mail me.
¹ http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
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