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# 9. Some Notes for the Amiga User

This section describes the differences between the Amiga and UN*X versions of `ne`, and some of the misfeatures inherited by its UN*Xish design.

Of course, the Amiga user will find `ne` much less attractive than UN*X users will. There are several excellent editors for the Amiga, and `ne` lacks many powerful features that Amiga users are now accustomed to. However, for very special uses, such as editing through a serial terminal connected to the `AUX:` device, `ne` is the only choice, since it runs in any CLI (even in remote ones). Of course, a correct installation of `aterminfo` (the Amiga `terminfo` clone) is a basic requirement.

To keep maintenance of the code simple, conditional code was avoided when possible. Thus, some features had to be dropped. First of all, there is no interrupt character. This happens because the Amiga handles signals in a way very different from UN*X, and it would have been very complex to reproduce the original behaviour.

In the file requester, it is not possible to obtain a list of the available devices. Indeed, it is not even possible to pass from a device to another inside the requester. You have to escape, then input manually the device name as a file name (which will produce a spurious error) and open again: this time, the device scanned by the requester will be the new one. Another alternative, of course, is simply to input a complete pathname.

`ne` will not behave particularly well under low memory conditions. It won't crash, but it could behave improperly.

The `'$HOME'` (a.k.a `'~'`) directory has no meaning on the Amiga: rather, the `'PROGDIR:'` directory is used. For instance, the `'~/.ne'` directory is really `'PROGDIR:.ne'`.

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