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I've loved and used Emacs for ~20 years, but if Emacs were to become slow, then if I were to have a replacement editor that could do the following (w/no X or wi

I've loved and used Emacs for ~20 years, but if Emacs were to become slow, then if I were to have a replacement editor that could do the following (w/no X or window manager) without additional config in Linux, I'd use it instead: arrow keys to move add and delete text anywhere paste from terminal buffer ctrl-s -> search (and continue to find next match) ctrl-v -> down ctrl-esc -> up ctrl-k -> kill line ctrl-x ctrl-s -> save ctrl-x ctrl-c -> quit ctrl-a -> goto beginning of line ctrl-e -> goto end of line I don't even use selection anymore, because I can just use the terminal window copy/paste.

stevekemp 10y ago
Antirez, of redis fame, wrote a minimal editor in C which got a lot of love here on hacker news a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12065217 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12065217 I took that release and added Lua scripting support to it, which also seemed reasonably popular: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12137698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12137698 It pretty much meets your requirements, and was a fun project. But it did make me realize that writing editors is sometimes harder than you'd think.
- gkafkg8y8 10y ago
  Kilo's supported commands are[1]: CTRL-S: Save CTRL-Q: Quit CTRL-F: Find string in file (ESC to exit search, arrows to navigate) It's available in a lot of well-used distros: https://pkgs.org/search/kilo https://pkgs.org/search/kilo but doesn't look like it's in Arch, etc. Kilua looks cool also as it has more similar keybindings to Emacs[2]: Ctrl-x Ctrl-o Open a new file in the current buffer. Ctrl-x Ctrl-s Save the current file. Ctrl-x Ctrl-c Quit. Ctrl-x c Create a new buffer Ctrl-x n Move to the next buffer. Ctrl-x p Move to the previous buffer. Ctrl-x b Select buffer from a list M-x Evaluate lua at the prompt. Ctrl-r: Regular expression search. but the goal would be to have that available in a package manager in a default install, so that after logging into any server where I'm a sudoer, I could: sudo apt-get install some_package sudo yum -y install some_package pacman -S some_package ... [1]: https://github.com/antirez/kilo https://github.com/antirez/kilo [2]: https://github.com/skx/kilua https://github.com/skx/kilua
da4c30ff 10y ago
If that's all you need, maybe μEmacs[1] could do it? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroEMACS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroEMACS
- pawadu 10y ago
  Don't forget mg. It seems to be more used than uemacs these days, possibly thanks to the openbsd project: [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mg_(editor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mg_(editor)
  - gkafkg8y8 10y ago
    It's also available in deb/rpm/pkg: https://pkgs.org/download/mg https://pkgs.org/download/mg Note: pkgs.org list is not all-inclusive; there are more Linux distros in which it's included.
- gkafkg8y8 10y ago
  Looks like it's in a few Slackware repos but I'm having trouble finding it in deb/yum/Arch pkg: https://pkgs.org/search/uemacs https://pkgs.org/search/uemacs JASSPA version (the package is jasspa, but searching on microemacs just to show results more thoroughly): https://pkgs.org/search/microemacs https://pkgs.org/search/microemacs

stevekemp 10y ago

Antirez, of redis fame, wrote a minimal editor in C which got a lot of love here on hacker news a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12065217 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12065217 I took that release and added Lua scripting support to it, which also seemed reasonably popular: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12137698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12137698 It pretty much meets your requirements, and was a fun project. But it did make me realize that writing editors is sometimes harder than you'd think.

gkafkg8y8 10y ago
Kilo's supported commands are[1]: CTRL-S: Save CTRL-Q: Quit CTRL-F: Find string in file (ESC to exit search, arrows to navigate) It's available in a lot of well-used distros: https://pkgs.org/search/kilo https://pkgs.org/search/kilo but doesn't look like it's in Arch, etc. Kilua looks cool also as it has more similar keybindings to Emacs[2]: Ctrl-x Ctrl-o Open a new file in the current buffer. Ctrl-x Ctrl-s Save the current file. Ctrl-x Ctrl-c Quit. Ctrl-x c Create a new buffer Ctrl-x n Move to the next buffer. Ctrl-x p Move to the previous buffer. Ctrl-x b Select buffer from a list M-x Evaluate lua at the prompt. Ctrl-r: Regular expression search. but the goal would be to have that available in a package manager in a default install, so that after logging into any server where I'm a sudoer, I could: sudo apt-get install some_package sudo yum -y install some_package pacman -S some_package ... [1]: https://github.com/antirez/kilo https://github.com/antirez/kilo [2]: https://github.com/skx/kilua https://github.com/skx/kilua

da4c30ff 10y ago

If that's all you need, maybe μEmacs[1] could do it? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroEMACS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroEMACS

pawadu 10y ago
Don't forget mg. It seems to be more used than uemacs these days, possibly thanks to the openbsd project: [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mg_(editor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mg_(editor)
- gkafkg8y8 10y ago
  It's also available in deb/rpm/pkg: https://pkgs.org/download/mg https://pkgs.org/download/mg Note: pkgs.org list is not all-inclusive; there are more Linux distros in which it's included.
gkafkg8y8 10y ago
Looks like it's in a few Slackware repos but I'm having trouble finding it in deb/yum/Arch pkg: https://pkgs.org/search/uemacs https://pkgs.org/search/uemacs JASSPA version (the package is jasspa, but searching on microemacs just to show results more thoroughly): https://pkgs.org/search/microemacs https://pkgs.org/search/microemacs