Free Simple Line EDitor for Unix
Including The Full Source Code in C
SLED is short for Simple Line EDitor which I developed for use as our email text editor.

SLED is no-frills and easy to use. It is designed for writing simple emails. It ignores control characters but understands function keys. If a function key is pressed which SLED does not use, it ignores it instead of accepting the function key sequences as user text entry. Try to use the Arrow-Keys in Pico to see what I mean.

It does not wrap-around but it handles text files greater than the screen columns by doing horizontal scrolling.

SLED is *NOT* a powerful text editor, if you need a powerful editor, use 'vi'.

I'm making the full source code available for free in the spirit of Open Source and I hope it will be useful to other users.

SLED's supplied termcap supports the following terminal types: 

    Wyse 60,Wyse 65
    Wyse 50
    Wyse 99gt
    Wyse 370
    AIXTERM
    VT-100
    VT-220
    CDE terminal emulator
    Sun Workstation console
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Download the latest source: sled1.1.3.tar.gz
Download the latest binary for Solaris 7: sled1.1.3.solaris.tar.gz Compiled with Workshop C Compiler Version 5.0.

If you are able to compile SLED for other platforms, please let me know. I only have access to different Sun systems.

Any questions or bug reports regarding SLED should be addressed to: ericl@panix.com

Note: SLED is part of STARSol. A Unix based Multiuser Retail Back-Office System Software.
History of Changes:

  • 1.1.3 - Added -h option to limit to user's home directory.

  • 1.1.2 - minor include file problem on netbsd.

  • 1.1.1 - Fixed string terminating bug which shows up when splitting a line.

  • 1.1.0 - Added print option, backward delete, file lookup w/ delete and directory change. Option to limit directory change to subdirectories. Option to skip files starting with '.' in file lookup.

  • 1.0.9 - Added Search and loop commands, alternate key in comand menu, command line options to auto append signature file and kill indentations. Option to use termios. Bug fixes: line truncating problem on insert, delete, memory leaks.

  • 1.0.5 - Minor install script bug fix and improvement. Will now create multi-level subdirectories.

  • 1.0.4 - First Release Version.
    Last Update: Thu Sep 19 11:15:25 HKT 2002