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The Tilde Text Editor
- krylon 4y agoI'm not the target audience (long-time emacs user, occasional vi user just for the heck of it), but this seems like a nice idea. On the few occasions I have used nano, I found the keyboard shortcuts very inconvenient. If I had no prior experience with any text-mode editors, I'd most likely prefer Tilde to the available alternatives. I never tried ee, though, so I have no idea how it compares or if anyone uses it.
- lproven 4y agoI tried `ee` recently on FreeBSD. It's weird. That's the thing. Everyone still things it's OK on xNix to just invent your own keystrokes. It is not OK. There has been a standard for over one-third of a century now and every mainstream OS, including most Linux GUIs, follows it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access I think that these days people just don't know how to operate a GUI with a keyboard, which is why so many Linux GUIs are inaccessible to blind users. If you can't see, you can't use a mouse. You can't see where it's going. But computers are extremely valuable to blind users: they can read for you. By ignoring keyboard access, FOSS OSes are excluding blind users, who could be among their most valuable and passionate supporters... because blind people tend not to be rich and tend not to have much disposable income.
- torh 4y agoCool project. Looks just like the editor I grew up with in MS DOS. These days I'm invested in Vim. I guess the choice boils down to "how much do you write" and even more down to "how much do you edit".
- fuzzygroup 4y agoThank you. Seriously. Thank you. Nicely done.
- wrp 4y agoI have it installed and it's nice, but not better enough to make me leave familiar old nano or mcedit. Maybe it will gradually replace nano as new users choose it.
- lproven 4y agoMy favourite console text editor on Linux. I wrote about it here: https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/17/tilde_text_editor/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/12/17/tilde_text_editor/ Standard keystrokes and mouse support! On the console, without X! Either of those alone would be enough, but both together is a killer combination.
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y agoHow do you get mouse support without X? Or do you mean the editor does a lot of amazing things without X, but you also have mouse support with X?
- genpfault 4y agogpm[1]? consolation[2]? [1]: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/gpm https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/gpm [2]: https://salsa.debian.org/consolation-team/consolation https://salsa.debian.org/consolation-team/consolation
- lproven 4y agoYou install gpm. https://linux.die.net/man/8/gpm https://linux.die.net/man/8/gpm But even if you do that, in basically all other existing Linux console editors, from Vim to Nano to Joe to Pico or whatever, your mouse doesn't work because they don't understand mice. Tilde does.
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y agoWell, to be fair, I disable mouse support in vim :)
- creatonez 4y agoVim and Emacs definitely do, and have supported it for many years.
- lproven 4y ago
- schwartzworld 4y agoThis is nice. I've been using micro for years, but I think I'll give tilde a shot. I love the msdos aesthetic.