Ee-Ding

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 A tiny fullscreen, open source text editor written in C.

 Author:       Yijun Ding
 Homepage:     TBD
 Family:       TinyEditors
 Download:     http://sites.google.com/site/texteditors/Home/files/ee-Ding.zip (C source)
 License:      open source
 Availability: Yes
 Platform:     MSDOS, Windows, Linux/Unix?, other: C compiler and curses.

From the documentation:

EE (Easy Editor)

There are many ASCII editors around, but I still find that I use my editor most often. Taking EMACS (one of the best) as an example, it is too slow to load when I am running TeX; too many different versions even within an operating system; too many commands to remember, but still don't have the ones you want.

EE is public domain with source code. It has all of basic editing functions like search/replace, block delete/paste, word wrap/paragraph fill etc. It is small enough to maintain when you have a new OS, or just changed your taste of style. Compromises have to be made to make EE small and useful including the followings:

If tab characters are find, it will expand/compress the file. Otherwise it keep the spaces (good for fixed format data file).

It uses two windows, but only keeps one file structure in buffer. It works just like windows.

Whenever possible, portable code between IBM and mainframe machine are used.

Of course, you can always change it if it doesn't fit your situation.

Available commands

append file
backward search
block copy
block cut
block delete line
block paste
block write
cursor down
cursor left
cursor right
cursor up
del eol
delete before
delete under
delete word
edit other file
execute line
exit
file bottom
file top
format
forward search
goto column
goto line
line begin
line end
page down
page up
play macro
record
refresh screen
replace all
replace
return
right margin
set mark
shell
status
tab insert
tab
toggle insert mode
toggle mode
window cancel
window

Commentary

This is a small, easy to follow text editor written in C. Less than 1100 lines of source code. Terry Loveall's Edx editor is based on ee. As Terry says, "Yijun Ding's logic and simplicity was elegant". The Turbo C compiled version is 20k.