▲ | orsenthil a day ago | ||||||||||||||||
Does anyone know who is the original author of this tool. I tried it on Linux and it is excellent! The usability, simplicity and intuitiveness. I remember I must have used this first, before I got into linux. But then the linux editors, like nano, ed, vim, emacs - with all the religious , political and passionate developers, didn't manage to pull up this intuitive interface. Even a simple copy of the design would have helped a new comer to linux, instead of presenting them with Nano as the default editor. | |||||||||||||||||
▲ | spauldo 16 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
It has the "feel" of a DOS program. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, just that it feels a bit alien on UNIX. The first UNIX system I learned on had pico, the editor nano was modeled after. I personally found it intuitive enough, but too simple in the long run. Editors like nano or DOS EDIT are great for light use, but you reach their limitations pretty fast if you do a lot of serious editing. | |||||||||||||||||
▲ | suby 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
I remember the author posting on a HN thread a month ago | |||||||||||||||||
▲ | userbinator a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
I guess it's someone who worked at Microsoft in the late 80s/early 90s: | |||||||||||||||||
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▲ | jacooper 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Micro is much more intuitive than nano, but I think Edit is better. Just need it to start rolling out to production distros. | |||||||||||||||||
▲ | mixmastamyk 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
I looked for similar for twenty years. Including compiling my own version from setedit, a clone of a turbo pascal ide. Ten years later someone mentioned “ne” which was acceptable and packaged. Several years ago the better micro was born then packaged, I’ve used since. It has more features than edit like highlighting, though missing a menu. That’s good enough I think. In some situations like constrained environments (openwrt) I use nano with CUA keybindings because micro is too big. | |||||||||||||||||
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