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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/

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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 I also found this one while doing a quick Google search. The Dinky text editor looks like it has a TUI-style menu bar like tilde does, although since I'm currently at work and using Windows right now I can't vouch for its quality. I'll leave you alone now. https://github.com/sedwards2009/dinky/

GitHub - sedwards2009/dinky: A small but friendly, terminal based text editor

A small but friendly, terminal based text editor. Contribute to sedwards2009/dinky development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Nazo

@rivercityrandom It looks potentially promising. I'm going to give that one a good look over.

Honestly I think I'd probably like it better than Tilde long term if it doesn't die out. One developer only, but they make pretty frequent releases.

EDIT: Built with zero issues. So far in trying it out I'm rather liking it. It's kind of pleasant.