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Joana de Castro Arnaud Apr 20, 2025

Does anyone know of a #text #editor, which runs in a #Linux #terminal, and uses only the characters: lowercase a-z, 0-9, comma, and period, in commands?

I want such an editor to ease my life on #Termux in Android, because these characters are the only ones immediately accessible on a standard Samsung keyboard, without the use of symbol keys.

And no, #vim doesn't fit the bill, because it needs Esc, ":" and "$"; #emacs and #nano are out because of the Ctrl and Alt keys, conspicously absent from mobile keyboards.

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Tyler Crenshaw Apr 20, 2025

@jcastroarnaud are you tied to the default Samsung keyboard for some reason? Unexpected Keyboard is my go to android keyboard for termux tinkering

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Joana de Castro Arnaud

@tdcrenshaw Not really. I tested various keyboards for some time, but went back to the default one.

I dismissed Unexpected Keyboard because I almost can't see the small letters on the key corners, and have low precision on swiping: wrong key almost always.

At home, I use an full-featured USB keyboard. For some time, I used Hacker's Keyboard, that does have Ctrl, Alt and Esc, but the keys are tiny: not worth the increased error rate on typing.