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I wish Linux just came with Edit.com. Arrow keys for movement, letter keys for input (what a novelty?!), and a working mouse. All available since MS Dos 6 or e
by UnoriginalGuy 14y ago
I wish Linux just came with Edit.com.
Arrow keys for movement, letter keys for input (what a novelty?!), and a working mouse. All available since MS Dos 6 or earlier.
I understand that some people like VIM and or Emacs, but why must UNIX people force such arcane editors down people's throats? Edit.com put them to shame almost twenty years ago.
Yes, I know, if you spend YEARS learning clever key combinations you can be ever so slightly more efficient, what a novelty...
- msh 14y agoNano and pico gives you that... Available on most unix systems.
- tracker1 14y ago+1 for nano... I only make relatively quick config changes from a console... so nano is much less of a learning curve... I'd rather not have to memorize a bunch of commands for my general text editing. I do prefer a GUI editor, and ironically enough, Sublime Text has been increasingly my goto editor (needing to remember certain hotkeys, but still works for general arrow-key and mouse editing).
- jlgreco 14y agoYou can use Nano/Pico if you want edit.com capabilities... but there is a reason nobody takes them seriously. Non-modal (I consider Emacs modal too) non-programmable editors are toys.
- antiterra 14y agoVim happily uses arrow keys for movement and you can easily learn the basics in a day. Saying that edit puts it to shame is ridiculous, and I'm someone who occasionally types 'edit' out of habit in a dos prompt to edit text files.