console-editor written in python

[Thomas Jollans]

On Wednesday 08 September 2010, it occurred to Tanje Toolate to exclaim:
> hi there,
> 
> 
> greetings.
> 
> i am looking for a small, console-based (opensource) texteditor,
> written in python (or as shellscript!), but i'm not finding something
> usable.

Why?
(Also, I can't imagine anyone writing a shell script that deserves, or even 
aspires to deserve, the name "text editor").

> 
> very find would be emacs-keybindings ...

Why not just use a real emacs ?