The Open Rho Project

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The rho editor is released under the Creative Commons NonCommercial ShareAlike License 3.0

In memoriam, Daniel Michael Lawrence, 1958 - 2010

Rho is a small, very configurable console-based text editor with Bash/Emacs key bindings. It compiles on POSIX systems and on OS X. The configuration file (~/.rhorc) allows the user to create macros using not only any internal function but anything available to a shell command. These macros can be used to redefine internal functions as well. Macro creation is extensively documented in rho's online help (Ctl-X H). Rho includes a general template solution and a general macro solution. The pairing of create-script and execute-script allows users to create templates which are injected into buffers which can be executed, trapping stderr and stdout. The source function allows for a keyboard's worth of macros to be installed for each kind of task, the next sourcing overwriting the last. Rho does not yet use UTF-8. It does work in 8-bit locales.

RELEASE rho-1.1.14

source tarball or binary package
This is a port release. Rho itself is unchanged. Aria Stewart has contributed a port to OS X which should (almost) work on other BSDs. See README for ported compilation instructions. The binary package, a standard tar.gz, is also a Slackware package. See instructions for source, root and user install in README.

Thanks to the following individuals:

Aria Stewart for her persistence and for the OS X port
Humphrey (nascent codehead) for inspiring the installation options in the README.
Vlado (my friend who works too hard) for fixing the $TERM issue for X11.
Patrick Shanahan (Dos Equis aficianado) for chasing down a rhorc problem.
Gabriel Emerson (casual rho user) for pointing out that I cannot count to ten.
Andrew Bishop (cxref author) for his cxref fix for a legacy file.
sbb (friend and Vim user) for testing rho on his French box.
Jean-Pierre Demailly (ported uemacs to Linux) for his encouragement.
Dan Lawrence and all his friends for all the pre-GNU era expansion of uemacs.
Dave Conroy for sharing his original uemacs in 1985.

Thanks to the following distributions for including rho in their packages:

And finally, we have the uemacs museum.

Contact info is here