There's a bunch of maintained terminal text editors out there. joe http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/ elvis http://elvis.the-little-red-haired-girl.org

There's a bunch of maintained terminal text editors out there. joe http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/ elvis http://elvis.the-little-red-haired-girl.org/ vile http://invisible-island.net/vile/ mg http://homepage.boetes.org/software/mg/ uemacs http://git.kernel.org/cgit/editors/uemacs/uemacs.git nvi https://sites.google.com/a/bostic.com/keithbostic/vi/ There's also "sam" and "acme" from plan9, which are not text-terminal, but super minimal X11. Anyway, there's a bunch of text editors out there, most people who care have found one that works well enough for them.