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 Command line pre-processor to enhance using vi

 Author:   Terry Jones, Department Of Computer Science, University Of Waterloo
 Download: http://www.scn.rain.com/pub/text/e.tar.Z
 Family:   ViFamily
 Platform: BSD4.[23], Ultrix 2.0, Dynix (BSD4.2 universe), and SUN 3.0, possibly SysV?
 License:  Open source

"e is a command line preprocessor to get you into vi with ease.

I find it very useful - even given a shell with history. It keeps a history of the files that have been e'ed most recently in each directory. Thus it is nice to be able to do

 cd somewhere
 e

and get straight into the file you were last working on in the directory "somewhere". It also allows fast cross-directory editing, does spelling corrections and solves the nasty modeline security problem by allowing you to ensure that you never inherit someone else's .exrc file."

Provided a C source tarball


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