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.

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spauldo 14 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.

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suby 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I remember the author posting on a HN thread a month ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44034961

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userbinator 20 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I guess it's someone who worked at Microsoft in the late 80s/early 90s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS-DOS_Editor

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augusto-moura 19 hours ago | parent [-]

I vividly remember using edit on an Windows XP (or was it a 98?) when I was a kid. It was one of those hidden commands that I learned while watching my uncles and father do trickery in CMD

Edit: just read https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/edit-is-now-open-... and it seems that all 32bit windows versions had edit. I was probably using Windows XP 32 the last time I remember using edit

	▲	augusto-moura 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I also remember that tried running edit on windows 8 and got surprised that it was removed

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jacooper 18 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.

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mixmastamyk 17 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.

	▲	lbruder 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		have you tried mcedit? It's the editor mc (Midnight Commander, a Norton Commander clone) brings along, looks and feels like the old DOS editor, but has more features