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Has anyone ever thought that the MS-DOS editor was one of the best CLI editors for complete beginners? I've always been disappointed that *nixs never ended up
by fouc 9y ago
Has anyone ever thought that the MS-DOS editor was one of the best CLI editors for complete beginners? I've always been disappointed that *nixs never ended up with something similar to edit. I suspected that irssi replaced ircii in a big way due to sane defaults, ease of configuration and a dash of color and I wondered if nano could've been replaced by similar principles.
- pjmlp 9y agoMy favorite MS-DOS editor back in the day was Q.
- moxious 9y agoAt first I was going to agree with you, but I think this largely may be an artifact of where and how you started (and me too). Text-based console editors I think are fundamentally unintuitive and make you learn a lot of different bizarre keystrokes that don't really map onto easy mnemonics or have much actual meaning, so I do kinda wonder if one set is better/worse than another.
- chaoticmass 9y agoI agree. I have found mcedit (midnight commander's editor) comes very close in ease of use and has a lot of power user features. Vim snobs will turn their noses at it, but I find it very comfortable to use for editing code. It is my main editor.