   I started this project as a laboratory work being first year
student  of Yaroslavl  State University  in 1993.  That time  I
worked on a BESTA machine under some kind of Unix. It had 8M of
memory and 14 terminals plugged in. (That was fun :)

   The first  version of the  editor could  do not too  much --
load a file, browse, insert, delete,  save -- that's all. Since
that, the editor  was almost completely rewritten  in C++. Some
old code is still there, since I don't know what to do with it.
Now it become quite a powerful editor  and I decided at last to
publish it  under GPL and did  it in early 1997.  (See FEATURES
for brief description of capabilities)

   I  understand that  there are  many other  text editors  out
there, but I used to my own  editor and some my friends told me
that the editor is actually better than many others.

   Alexander V. Lukyanov <lav@yars.free.net>
