Tested. Works great. Thanks!

Feature-wise, I think ne is sitting between nano and Vim/Emacs. Easy to use, yet still comes with a lot of useful features, including autocompletion. All of its features are organized in menus. You can see a screenshot here (http://beforewisdom.com/blog/tech/ne-nice-editor/). For beginners, you can just use the menu for certain actions if you don't remember the shortcuts. I like to use shortcuts too, but I found myself I still need to check the menus sometimes to remind me the shortcut for some actions I don't use very often.

still think ne would be good to be added, and don't think it's any similar to ed. But yes, micro would be a good alternative, I will give it a try for now.