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I never understood why the beautiful & easy-to-use QBasic Editor never inspired a copycat for linux. It would've easily beaten out nano.
by fouc 5y ago
I never understood why the beautiful & easy-to-use QBasic Editor never inspired a copycat for linux. It would've easily beaten out nano.
- sprash 5y agoMidnight Commander "mcedit" comes close to the aesthetics (blue background, grey dialogs with shadows, etc.) but is not a perfect copy. A perfect clone of the MS-DOS editor for UNIX/Linux does not exist. Maybe this is the new toy project for the "written in Rust" crowd.
- vanviegen 5y agoI think that is because back then, terminals weren't capable of handling key combinations like shift-arrows (for selection), ctrl-c (for copy), and mouse support wasn't great either.
- indeyets 5y agoJoe's Own Editor is a thing since 1988 https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/ https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/
- BBC-vs-neolibs 5y agoIsn't that more of a Wordstar copy? I loved QBasic but never hade any love for JOE.
- fouc 5y agoWell the one of the appealing part of QBasic Editor was the friendly bright blue color scheme. Along with the always present menu bar on the top. Just a great editor for newbies. Seems like Joe has the helpful menu system, but it feels overall more "serious" in comparison, especially with the minimal white on black color scheme.