Maintaning AEE: Another Easy Editor

Fuck the idea that every useful tool must be a sprawling project with a million options and a two-day onboarding. AEE exists because the Unix world forgot how to make things obvious.

I maintain a small fork because simplicity deserves an active steward. The original AEE did one thing extremely well: let you edit text without initiation rites. Modern toolchains and distributions broke enough build assumptions that the project stopped being reliably usable — so I fixed what needed fixing and kept the rest.

What I kept sacred:

• The editor's behaviour: no modes, no key-chords, nothing that requires a manual.
• The UI: obvious commands, visible operations, zero gatekeeping.

What I changed (carefully):

• Modernized the build to compile on current toolchains (CMake + sane flags).
• Fixed ncurses portability and removed dead bits that only caused harm.
• Ensured the editor runs predictably across modern Linux distros.

This is preservation, not feature creep. If you want a tiny, obvious editor for quick fixes — rescue edits, config changes, emergency corrections — AEE is a refusal: a tiny resistant tool that does its single job without asking for your life story.

Install (AUR):

yay -S aee-anoraktrend-git

Run:

aee filename

Source, issues, and PRs are under anoraktrend on my git hosts. If you want to help keep small, useful software alive, fork it, fix it, and push it back.

-# A Project Shouldn't Die if its creator gives up on it.