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I’m forever stuck with 1980s Turbo Pascal as my heart’s secret place of text-mode editing comfort, and nano is probably the closest thing available by default i
by pavlov 4y ago
I’m forever stuck with 1980s Turbo Pascal as my heart’s secret place of text-mode editing comfort, and nano is probably the closest thing available by default in most Unixes.
- ajuc 4y agomcedit was closer (and I still use it even though they stopped bundling it with most distributions for some reason). I love mcedit feature that lets you pipe selected text through a custom bash script.
- npteljes 4y agoThis is really curious to me. I'm also very partial to mcedit, it's often the first thing I install on boxes. And also, my first programming language was Turbo Pascal. Is that maybe why I like mcedit so much?
- ripe 4y agoYes!! Thanks for reminding me. Turbo Pascal was the ultimate in text editing. In fact, it was a complete IDE in a TUI. And the most-used commands were single keystrokes. Edit-run cycles were so fast that I was writing programs to do regular automation tasks.