[svlug] email editor

[Will Francis]

ok, I've got the itch to change my email editor. I use nmh remotely
for personal mail and nmh/exmh for work mail. I'm mostly looking to
replace the horrible "sedit" that comes with exmh, which is an X11
editor, though if I can get what I want in a shell editor, I'll happily
pipe it into an xterm.

Please, let's not make this into a flame war

Here's my wish list:

small and lightweight with fast start times
accepts vi commands for movement and editing
minimal mouse usage needed for menus and such
spell checker

ok, here's the big one and what really rules vi itself out:
sane inline paragraph formatting. This is to say that if I remove words
from the middle of a paragraph, I want the text to automatically rejustify.
Yes, I have vi macros which (mostly ok) do this now, but frankly I'm really 
tired of it. Even tiny editor boxes in input boxes in browsers have this. 
Yes, I know that this is not going over the network and I can understand
how delaying paragraph justifacation is a good thing over a slow link, but
locally at work or even to my remote machine the links are fast enough that
I don't see this as a problem for lightweight email editing.

A look through freshmeat shows either heavy editors meant for hours on 
end programming, pico clones (shudder), mouse intensive notepad like
editors with no concept of margins and lots of random whatnot that would
take days to sift through.

so... I turn it over to you. Is there anything out there which would
suit my desires?

Thanks

Will