SkullgridMar 5

why hard exit editor? Nano say at bottom.

https://lemmy.world/post/43888601

Show threadfartsparklesMar 5

micro enters the chat.

Static, portable binary with no dependencies.

Out of the box:

  • Syntax highlighting
  • Multi-line cursors like Sublime Text
  • Mouse support
  • Splits and tabs
  • Diff gutter
  • Copy and paste with system clipboard
  • Cross-platform
  • Sane key binds (ctrl-s, ctrl-c, ctrl-v, ctrl-z, ctrl-x, etc)
  • Plugin system
  • And much much more

I have nothing to do with the project but this binary is the absolute best. curl or wget to any host and away you go with effectively a Sublime Text / VSCode like in the terminal.

It’s baffling it’s not more well known and not installed by default on major distros.

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Show threadpsud

And in Emacs ctrl+k means kill the line or selection (adds it to the kill ring) and ctrl+y yanks a value from the kill ring. Meta+y cycles to the next item in the ring. Meta is usually escape, unless you’re using the computer of someone with a key called meta

This comes from being earlier than MS-DOS, so it couldn’t copy someone else’s work (why did it take so long for DOS and windows to come up with the innovation of a copy history. It came after the windows key

Mar 11 at 2:41amWeb