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What are the alternatives to nano? (Just out of curiosity)

• reddotX 8y ago
  micro
• apetresc 8y ago
  vim?
  • vgy7ujm 8y ago
    Hallelujah
• craftyguy 8y ago
  This is a pretty open ended question. Alternatives include everything from vi/vim, ed, emacs, to pico (and probably some I have forgotten..)
  • h1d 8y ago
    If you would read between lines (of a single line), I meant those ones that aren't vim or emacs related clones.
  • earenndil 8y ago
    Vim and emacs are huge, powerful texteditors that aren't competing with nano. Ed is...unusable in 2018. So just pico.
    • watersb 8y ago
      (ed was unusable in 1988) :-)
• bdz 8y ago
  I like ne http://ne.di.unimi.it/ http://ne.di.unimi.it/
• pwiecz 8y ago
  I use zile.
  • forgotpwd16 8y ago
    I like Zile but it lacks Unicode support.
• LeoPanthera 8y ago
  mc (midnight commander) has a built in editor that is actually pretty great. "mcedit" if you have mc installed.
  • therealmarv 8y ago
    That's a nice alternative. Never thought of that. On most machines I have mc already installed so it's a real package installable alternative (unlike micro).
• forgotpwd16 8y ago
  Alternatives as in "easy-to-use no-hassles console editor"? JOE brings more features and it even comes with a nano (actually pico) mode accessible with the jpico command. Ne comes with macros and it uses standard keybindings (C-s,c,v,z...). Both predate nano and are the repos of most distros.
• jsilence 8y ago
  Question could be considered flamebait. Ahhh, the good times... editor wars on usenet.