Favourite TUI editor

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Your favourite console editor is...

diakonos
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e3
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ed/sed/awk/grep/ssed
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emacs
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14%
fte/efte
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jed
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joe
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jupp
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le
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ledit
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levee
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mcedit
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mg
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nano/nano-tiny/pico
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50%
ne
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the
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vi/ex/nvi
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5%
vim
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32%
Other
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Total votes: 22

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Favourite TUI editor

Unread post by machinebacon » Sat May 02, 2015 4:50 pm

No Geany, please :) If not in the list, pick 'Other' and tell us ;)
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Re: Favourite TUI editor

Unread post by GekkoP » Sat May 02, 2015 4:52 pm

Since I rarely use Emacs in no-X, I go with one of my all time favorites: nano.
It helped A LOT configuring different distros in the past, I'll always have good words for nano.

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Unread post by machinebacon » Sat May 02, 2015 4:53 pm

Same here. As much as I love emacs for everything except of editing, I prefer nano for all the quick and dirty things.
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Unread post by stark » Sat May 02, 2015 4:57 pm

Ofcourse vim in a emacs ansi-term :D
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Unread post by machinebacon » Sat May 02, 2015 5:00 pm

...and WordPad in a virtual machine? :D
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Unread post by stark » Sat May 02, 2015 5:03 pm

^ Are you crazy ? Wine comes with a notepad.exe :D
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Unread post by tenkainen » Sat May 02, 2015 5:24 pm

Put emacs, though I often use zile for quick edits. Emacs without the bloat.
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Unread post by machinebacon » Sat May 02, 2015 5:38 pm

^ zile, I knew I forgot one :D
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Unread post by dkeg » Sat May 02, 2015 5:41 pm

I voted vim

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Re: Favourite TUI editor

Unread post by bones » Sat May 02, 2015 6:08 pm

nano... my needs are few.

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Re: Favourite TUI editor

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Sat May 02, 2015 8:36 pm

I have only vim installed. ;)

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Re: Favourite TUI editor

Unread post by simgin » Sun May 03, 2015 12:54 pm

Nano <3 :)
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Unread post by rhowaldt » Sun May 03, 2015 1:58 pm

Geany-cli. ah no, shit, doesn't exist. nano it is :D
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Unread post by dkeg » Sun May 03, 2015 2:47 pm

When I use nano my file is intertwined with

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Re: Favourite TUI editor

Unread post by vic » Fri Jun 12, 2015 10:40 pm

Drumroll...surprise...nano, meh.
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Re: Favourite TUI editor

Unread post by liknites » Sat Jun 13, 2015 4:15 pm

vi improved ;)

sandy is a little rough around the edges, but has the neat feature of detecting emacs or vi controls :o

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Unread post by machinebacon » Sat Jun 13, 2015 7:13 pm

^ I managed to segfault sandy several times (but e3 too!) :D
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Re: Favourite TUI editor

Unread post by liknites » Sun Jun 14, 2015 3:52 am

^ per the idea of sandy (that is, a simple editor that gets out of your way) I've read that GNU zile is now no longer an mg-esque minimal emacsen but a sort of meta-editor. I've not investigated it fully, but a low-resource basic editor that emulates emacs, vi, windows (C-c & C-v), and CUA based on watching the user's keyboard mashing would be very useful. Could even replace nano! :o

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Unread post by machinebacon » Sun Jun 14, 2015 2:19 pm

^ didn't know about this. Apparently the version in the Sid repos is still from 2014, and it emulates Emacs. Will check later on the dev's homepage.

You can have a try with e3, it's quite small, comes with vi, emacs, wordstar and nano mode ;)
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Re: Favourite TUI editor

Unread post by Dr_Chroot » Sun Jun 14, 2015 4:31 pm

I use zile on my VPS. It could certainly trick you into thinking you were using Emacs! Great editor.
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