sce (Simple Console Editor)
sce -- minimalist console editor (no highlighting, no plugins, no modes, no Emacs) - volution/simple-console-editor
In plain words
sce is a minimalist console text editor written in Python that strips away syntax highlighting, plugins, modes, and Emacs-style features. Originally created in 2008, it has been refined over time with stability improvements and a browser-like pager. The editor supports editing across multiple programming languages and file types, from C to Go and HTML to LaTeX. With a compact codebase of a few thousand lines, sce is compatible with Python 2.7 and 3.6+.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
This is my personal plain text editor that I have initially written in a couple of hot summer days of 2008. Over the years I have made minor enhancements and stability improvements, plus an initial implementation of a browser-like pager. I have used it since the first days for all my edits, especially for source code, scripting, configuration, in all languages from C to Go, Python to Scheme, Bash to Erlang, HTML / CSS / JavaScript, LaTeX to CommonMark, JSON to XML, all except Java. The code is written in Python, works with both Python 3.6+ and 2.7, and is only a couple of tousand lines long, ~3.5k for the current version which includes a browser-like pager. However on the down-side the code…from github.com
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