I have written a small console based editor in python as an experiment. It is just over 300 lines of code including some junk that I have not weeded out yet. It uses the curses library. It is EXTREMELY basic at the moment and cannot be used for anything other than experimentation. Only a few keystrokes are currently implemented such as ^S save, ^E end of line, ^A beginning of line, ^F, ^B, ^N, ^P and arrow keys for cursor movement ^L delete line, baskspace and that is just about it. Apart from that I created it with a view to a plugin architecture to be implemented so that it will be possible for example for users to specify complete python functions in a .rc file that overide key bindings. I created it to learn about curses, python and to gain insight into how editors are written (or not written :-) ) If anyone is interested in the code or in giving some ideas or indeed has done something similar I would love to heard from you. Regards