Mastodawn

Ok, this is a dangerous question, but I still have to ask. For all you fellow #Linux users I'm looking to replace my console text editor. I am not and will not be an emacs user and I'm not a fan of vi/vim. I used nano, but really disliked it. I really enjoy tilde for the most part (though I do wish it didn't actually take over mouse selection to such an extent that I can't copy/paste from outside the terminal in a GUI) but tilde seems to be dead. The dev seems to be MIA and the packages no longer work. We can still manually build it (though it's not static and you can't move the source files after building or it quits working) but I assume eventually that's going to stop working.

Is there an editor kind of modernish like tilde but, you know, not dead and not emacs-based and a TUI?

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River City Random ☑️Mar 13

@nazokiyoubinbou I like the Micro text editor https://micro-editor.github.io/

Micro - Home

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Nazo Mar 13

@rivercityrandom I guess I meant to say I'm looking for something that has like a basic TUI, less complex key-bindings, etc. Tilde has been (mostly) perfect for me really and if I have to I'll keep using it, just eventually it will surely stop working.

Looking at micro I think I'd still prefer nano if it came to that.

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River City Random ☑️Mar 13

@nazokiyoubinbou yeah, I admit micro doesn't come with the classic Windows/DOS "CUA keybindings" by default. You may have to edit a json file to get them all the way you want them. If you're not bound to a terminal, the default text editors in GNOME and KDE are very Notepad-esque in their feature scope and ease of use.

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Nazo

@rivercityrandom Who said Windows/DOS? I can deal with other keybinds fine. It's appearance, functionality, etc I'm looking at.

The next closest thing I saw was jed, but the emacs stuff was too much. I kept getting stuck just trying to access stuff. (I will admit that emacs is something I will never get the hang of.)

Anyway, I'm looking specifically to replace the editor used in the console. Among GUI editors there are several I like. Almost too many options if anything.