FTE Text Editor

It's about the same, IMHO. I don't run them often (I always use XFTE), but both are almost the same. Internally, SFTE uses S-lang, while NFTE uses ncurses for the console display. See which one suits your need. Some shortcut keys may not work with either one of them, unfortunately. :-( You may want to replace the non-working shortcuts with the working alternatives in your config files.

Wirawan